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Words of wisdom from Paul Krugman.
Mr. Kerry proposes spending $650 billion extending health insurance to lower- and middle-income families. Whether you approve or not, you can’t say he hasn’t addressed the issue. Why hasn’t this voter heard about it?
I was thinking about this last night after watching the speaches. All the talking heads on MSNBCBNCNNFaux […]

I finally finished The Confusion last night.
Stephenson does his typical — changing everything you’ve assumed for the previous 795 pages in the last 5. Even though the hints were there all along.
Jeeze.
And now I have to wait until September 21 for The System of the World.
Bastard!

Oops!
The passenger, later identified as Annie Jacobsen, was in danger of panicking other passengers and creating a larger problem on the plane, according to a source close to the secretive federal protective service.
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The Globe and Mail under your door in the morning is so much more interesting and enlightening than USA Today.
I really have to stay at Canadian hotels more often.
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Yes, I just got back from the Madonna concert. Long story short… the head of the Toronto office, sometimes known as the owner of my company, likes to take the whole office out for a show every now and then and I just happened to have shown up this morning with nothing to do tonite….. […]

I just got back from seven hours of sales and marketing rah rahs from a client.
Not much to say except it’s pretty weird when William Gibson is invoked three times (once by the CEO) at a sales conference.
I’m off to drink with colleagues.

I’m at LaGuardia… where the long term parking is closed and you’re lucky if you can figure your way out of the airport…
Fun fun.
Thank goodness for WiFi.
And for my iPod.
And for Joy Division
Now playing on iTunes: Digital from the album Substance 1977-1980 by Joy Division
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I’m off for a couple of days of meetings with clients in Toronto. Expect grouchy posts from the airport bitching about security waits and what nots.

Looking back over the events of the other day, I’m coming to the conclusion that we’re way too paranoid as a society. And stupid.
Just because we once heard that some school nurse over there in some school (you know, you heard from ‘them’ about ‘that’ school over ‘there,’ didn’t you?), anyone who comes […]

Yesterday around 2 I got a panicked phone call from Sue. It seems that Lindsey when went to pick up the boy at camp he was having difficulty breathing and his tongue was swollen. The camp nurse said ‘get this boy to a doctor.’
It turns out all is well. We figure he was eating an […]