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December 30, 2019

Desperately seeking diversity.

Happy New Year. My neighborhood in DC has turned into some kind of non-diverse Orwellian-H.G. Wells Mother of all BetaFests where most guys talk and act like Mr. Rogers. I’m starting to sashay here. How about your ‘hood? What’s happening in the Midwest and South?

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December 26, 2019

Euripides: On Slavery.

“This is Slavery: not to speak one’s thought.”

— Eurípides (480-406 BC)

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December 25, 2019

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from generations of American Hulls, Holdens, McQuittys, Bondurants, Riemers, Pattons and Olivers. And J. Dan Hull, Jr., the boy standing tall in the middle. My hero. 1906 photo.

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December 17, 2019

Dupont Circle: Still Best 'Hood in DC.

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December 16, 2019

Cosmos Club

Since 1878. 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.

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December 15, 2019

Lafayette Park

General Jackson, a Scots-Irish Badass like no other, says farewell to the day. Taken 4:40 PM today.

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December 13, 2019

Disraeli: On Bad Books.

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

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December 06, 2019

Budapest 2007

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December 05, 2019

Phillip James Loutherbourg: River Wye at Tintern Abbey, 1805.

The River Wye at Tintern Abbey, 1805, Philip James Loutherbourg.

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December 04, 2019

The Pluck & Fineness of Jacob Riis (1849–1914)

Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was a Danish American reformer, journalist and photographer. He is still famous for his photos of New York City's slums and their uneasy mix of new Americans--especially those taken in Hell's Kitchen and around Five Points. Below in the 1890s is Mulberry "Bend" (then sometimes "Lane") in lower Manhattan and within the Five Points. It's now Mulberry Street, which runs through Chinatown and Little Italy.

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