| August 3, 2008 | | | | | Feedback | | | Calendar | | | Archives |
More to report on from my sisters' visit. I share with Colleen the need to have the table nearest the best window in any restaurant. This view from our table at the Lobster Pound in Lincolnville was a winner. We also share a near obsession with political news, but my tricks at using a web browser were more than matched by her skill with a TV remote. It's like having a personal news DJ who monitors 3 or 4 stations and wisks you away to something better during commercials. We shopped intensely and it was fun to shop with dedicated professionals, pausing only for great lunches and coffee shop regrouping. They were like a two person economic stimulus package. Speaking of good meals, Ingrid brought us figs and Melissa made biscuits and bacon. She also brought a couple of bags of roasted chichory, which I mix almost half and half with a locally roasted fair trade dark roast giving me a mix that's similar to Union coffee, the most expensive of the New Orleans blends. Thanks to Brett for telling me about the interesting stuff (rusty truck and other goodies)to be seen in the down-the-hill parking lot in Liberty. Two sites (by the same person) that help me understand how a candidate can be winning comfortably in the electoral vote while the popular vote is close are Pollster and FiveThirtyEight. I don't agree with Obama on everything. Free trade is almost always the best way to go, benefitting the most people; and rebate checks just let people buy more stuff globally. It would be better to spend the money on infrastructure building. And finally the reading report. James Carse who wrote an old favorite of mine called Finite and Infinite Games: A vision of Life as Play and Possibility which I read too many times, has a new book out called The Religious Case Against Belief. Also reading Fareed Zakaria's The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. |