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– Yesterday after work, I sat in Union Square and read. Today I got wet on the way to work, because it was raining buckets. Also: two more days until Harry Potter Book 7 comes out.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Today in Weather History: Aurora, Illinois, received 16.91 inches of rain in 24 hours, 1996.

The New York Times has a nice page with articles and an obituary of Lady Bird Johnson here.

– Yesterday was obscenely frustrating. But at least I finally finished the first volume of the University of Chicago’s Readings in Western Civilization: The Greek Polis which I think I first started in 1998.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Of what use is it for a cow to give plenty of milk if she upsets the pail?

For Blue Skies Falling.

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– I was busy this week, but writing and revising. Not things really that interesting for me to talk about or for you to read. I did see Harry Potter on Friday, and Jess and I hung out with Marco and Scott several times.

Hey.

So no. 1, between my dumb self and my dumb computer I do not have a solid list of emails for People I Know in Flint and Chicago.

No. 2, I have started a comprehensive mailing list for my writing projects.

– I explored Roosevelt Island yesterday, including the abandoned Smallpox Hospital and the Octagon. In between were massive pomo housing blocs. It was very strange. It felt vaguely communist in an endowed central planning sort of way. Everyone had their own three-hundred square food garden.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Freshen smelly sneakers with a liberal dose of salt.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Black Holes: Gravity’s Relentless Pull.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
See next post.

– APPETIZER –
Daily Kos: No Chips In This Game

– THE ENTREE –
I’ve thought for a long time now that we ought to (that all democracies ought to) have a universal draft. On a practical level, it would solve almost innumerable problems.