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My friend Tom has a new book, this time around in a lighter vein. If you are a geek with some history, you will find it worth a read. Check out his Live Journal post for more info.

My friend Tom has a new book, this time around in a lighter vein. If you are a geek with some history, you will find it worth a read. Check out his Live Journal post for more info.

Without any hint of irony, Daniel Mendelsohn writes an Op-Ed in the NYT about the recent discovery of letters from Otto Frank:

We would not need to look much farther than the very Palestine that remains closed today, to its own inhabitants.

The Democrats have made a strategy out of underestimating the public, and that losing strategy is not bound to change, despite evidence to the contrary:

Don’t expect the Democrats to take this to heart and at least lead from behind. They do watch the polls, but those are the personality horse-race type stuff.

As Kermit Roosevelt (huh?!) mentions in the American Prospect, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is said to have had an embroidered cushion in her office that read “Maybe in error, but never in doubt”.

If that rings a bell, here is a hint:

That is of course from Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil).