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Freakonomics:A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Yiddish Policmen's Union - Michael Chabon A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews Body -...

I love how Maliki tries to catch one of them.

^:lol: I guess it's just payback.....from this perhaps? Or maybe that Iraq business I suppose.

I don't really give a damn that the employees are supposedly less knowledgable than they used to be. I don't need them to be any smarter than they already are. In fact, the less they trouble me while I'm browsing the better. Other than directing me to specific titles when I need to be they can...

All the subtleties, orchestration, misdirection and false sense of security generated by a good game of chess. Thanks Libra, you relieve my addiction, if only for a moment.

Now they are back to having to atone. We got Mongol today from Netflix. We'll see....

Can anyone speak their memory to me about a chess problem that Nabokov poses in the book?

Nabokov. And it apparently shows up in Speak, Memory.

Too literary = boring, pretentious, too much snobbery. (like my signature) Not literary enough = base stories, formulaic and lacking substance. But mostly the damn books other people choose just don't interest me.

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (1984)

Too late to vote? Yes. Too late to run yourself (like on a populist, anti-bailout platform with a quick recall of Obama)? No. It can happen, just ask Gray Davis.

Prince - Kiss (1986)

One of the first I've seen mentioned by someone other than myself that I already own. Seconded.

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Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (1983)

Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory (1982) "live together in forest in perfect harmony!"

Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (1982)

Nothing much. Still digesting turkey and stuffing, drinking when there's room. How cold is it getting in the north country?

I thought that title sounded vaguely familiar. Amazon has it here.

I play chess just to get back to even. The high left me a long time ago.