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...fact that my red home state of Indiana went blue for Obama while it re-elected Daniels is a welcome signal that Hoosiers are reviving the saner, compromise-friendly politics I grew up with, including Lincolnesque Republicans like Senator Richard Lugar and Rooseveltian Democrats like former Congressman Lee Hamilton. They were civil-tongued consensus builders who presided over a pre-Lee Atwater, pre-MoveOn.org age, before the two parties let their wing nuts become their linchpins...
...figured it out - you point, signal, gesticulate wildly. It's kind of like drunken semaphore. Necessity is the mother of invention - she would stay at my place fairly often, so eventually I innovated sign language for "have a pizza delivered...
...successful digressions, but it is an excellent metaphor for 2666 itself: "Images with no handhold," the professor says of those ruined pages, "images freighted with all the orphanhood in the world, fragments, fragments." This is the novel corrupted, but its corruption is its salvation, because an orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book...
...going off the grid isn't as simple as unplugging your television. The grid isn't just electricity but water, heat, waste management - even your cable signal. And then there's the gas that powers your car, the government-funded roads you drive on and the air in which you fly. That's where Black comes in. He has just written a book called Living Off the Grid, a practical guide to weaning yourself off the electrical milk of modern life. To Black, the benefits of going gridless aren't just about the environment - though with electricity responsible for about...
...freshman Melanie Baskind fired a shot at the goal. Rebecca Taylor, the Lions’ goalie, did not have a chance. The ball rocketed towards the goal, hit the top goalpost, shaking the net, and deflected straight down and out. In a controversial call, the referee did not signal goal, causing both the Crimson’s fans and players to break out in exclamations of disagreement. “We had to score, like, three goals,” Leone said. “We thought we had one there, we thought we had one here, and then...