“But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” "But you cannot destroy them until they rebel?" "No," Robert Jordan said. "We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Another sub-freezing day, maybe the tenth or so in a row. It makes from some gray, na

"Monday Monday, can't trust that day, Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way Oh Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be Oh Monday Monday, how you could leave and not take me." -John Phillips Sitting in silence watching the traffic slide by, on a balmy 22 degree Manhattan morning. I arrived here early Sunday evening, studied, talked to P for a few minutes, then after reading my book about the October Surprise, Den of Spies by Craig Unger, nodded

"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline." - Nolan Bushnell A warming trend out there in the valley of the Chemung this morning, rocketing from nine below zero at sunrise to seven degrees right now. Yesterday I failed to post, not out of sloth but because there wasn't a moment to sit in front of a computer and write something. My most difficult class falls on midday Thursdays, Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions. The syllabus is a nonspecific mess, with 200 pages of re

I have found me a home. -Jimmy Buffett Partnership Tax starts in about eight minutes, so a very quick post. Last night after Estate Planning class Peg and I walked two blocks to Swift's Hibernia Lounge for tapas and a cocktail before bed. What a marvelous place, with live Celtic music, Guinness, and every Irish whiskey known to man. And no TVs, anywhere. I'm beginning to like this place.