“CEO Pay Soars at Companies That Send Jobs Overseas”

September 1, 2004

This interesting bit of news just in via the Institute for Policy Studies: an article documenting executive (excessive) remuneration, which we’re sometimes told has to be very high because of the risks executives take. Not quite true, however: One rationale for high CEO pay is that CEOs bear tremendous risks and responsibilities for their companies, […]

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I don’t know where I’m going, but don’t try to stop me….

September 1, 2004

The nearly week-long descent into winter, which I described in yesterday’s entry, coincided unhappily with my first-ever reading of The Inferno, wherein Dante limmed the innermost circle of suffering as a frozen wasteland. [Warning: Philistine alert!] I confess that I actively disliked this text. It could be that I expected too much and set myself […]

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August ad

August 31, 2004

I really had to eat my words after my last entry — and there was plenty of water (in the form of rain) to wash them down with…. Uncharacteristically, we went from a “Mediterranean” summer (i.e., typical drought and quite a bit of dry heat) to this damp, dreary week that deserved Heinrich Heine‘s summing […]

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Holy flickr’ing batguano…

August 31, 2004

Vacation – August05-22 Originally uploaded by Bananarama. Hello, I’m testing the “blog this” feature on Flickr, and it’s way too fast for me.  This is a photo of an old “castle” (actually, a McMansion of its day) a few blocks from where I live — it was posted on Flickr by Bananrama, and I hit […]

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Weather Report: Some rain, finally

August 22, 2004

In Northern Hemispheres: Delusions August is a vicious month. It walks on legs unsteady, Made prickly by a previous Winter’s weight of bad choices. Well stuck together by the colder months, Held fast internally they were, yet seemed to move. But July’s heat unglued these parts, The conglomerates of histories, And stumbling, August can enact […]

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Right of Way, Coming Through: What’s important these days, anyway?

August 9, 2004

Well, hold on to your hats if Adam Sparks’s editorial, Why Kerry Will Lose The Election in the San Francisco Gate is on the money. What I really distrust in Sparks’s analysis is his manipulation of how we should perceive perception: Sparks regards the potentially popular perception that Kerry would be (marginally, infinitesimally) better than […]

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Fellini was making documentaries

August 2, 2004

To blog or not to blog? Although not exactly taking a summer break, I’m an oppressed summery mass nonetheless, crushed by domestic chores that somehow seem to be going ’round and ’round, like an endless sushi loop at “Yo Sushi,” to quote Eddy from AbFab. Forget the links, no time. If you haven’t seen the […]

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C’mon baby light my fire

August 1, 2004

Who would have known? I will be barbequed by an angry dragon How will you die? Take the Exotic Cause of Death Test Via the inimitable Doug writing here.

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Broken Pencil Theory? I’ve had it with that.

July 21, 2004

And basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children, in cases that have been recorded, the boys were sodomized, with the cameras rolling, and the worst above all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. [More….] This has been all over the blogs, especially the more political […]

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Wide open (west)

July 15, 2004

There’s a longer entry I mean to write, but just for now, two pictures I took on Tuesday night (13th). They’re from a parking lot that has an adjacent empty historical building. Both are scheduled to be developed into an 8 story monster (to be called Bambu) that will be sited in a 3-(tops)-story downtown […]

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