Quote of the Year

| December 31, 2009

There was really no contest this year. On the death of the young Iranian woman Neda Agha-Soltan during the protests in June: I finally looked at her picture, and she looked familiar somehow. I think we have a statue of her in the harbor at New York. Delacroix caught a glimpse of her once on […]

Spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam

| December 31, 2009

It’s a few hours early, but I’m compiling my email stats for the year. The horrifying one: Junk/spam: 44,714. That’s 122 each and every day. And people wonder why I support capital punishment.