Democracy of ideas

Truth is an idea well advertised.
Those who do the advertising become the experts in the matter.

Dense

matching algorithms

There are patterns, of course. Looking for the algorithms of matching people  Looking for a rule?  What should one maximize? Life is like rugby...played by people of all size and speed.

cultural jinx

Was talking the other day to a Wharton educated businessman and used "bad eye" in the conversation. He asked me what was a bad eye. It was not my bad accent. Oh. come on! Devising business strategies without knowing what what a bad eye is.

sexciting or sexcited

So? was there a case? The blogosphere might be driven  by sex and dirty stuff. But a district attorney? Who would believe that a major socialist politician would behave aggressively towards a chamber maid? A French socialist leading the world finance's? A man with a woman first name and a Sephardi  Jew with a Germanic last name. raping  a Muslim?...  Me and everybody else.  But a DA should not get excited longer than the first hour. DAs should not seek fame or votes? This one made some correction at least.

dismounting discounted rainbow bike

I was riding my bike on the bicycle path on  West Street yesterday.   I had  bought this bike for $50, deep discount,  probably because nobody wanted the color scheme. At 14th street the path was blocked  due to the gay parade. I dismounted and walked amid the parade goers a half mile to Clarkson. And then I realized that walking with my rainbow colored bike I was fitting right in.

Midnight in Paris

This childhood friend living in Paris dropped me and my mother at a metro station. It was midnight. When we realized we had missed the last train we took an escalator to street. We got through the heavy turnstile gate that closed behind us. In front of us a grille locked for the night. Midnight in Paris prisoners in a metro bouche.

Frank died

And we, his friends, immediately  checked our weight and took our blood pressure medication.

Price of democracy and loss of values.

Lately I socialize with some Russians in their thirties. Professionals. They don't know anything about the dialectic of history or value product.  An entire body of knowledge and expertise lost .. Burn what you adore and adore...The naive Americans who took over Marx have not figured yet why the markets collapsed...

longest day, day of His wrath

The days of thy servant

of adversity, of temptation in the wilderness:, of battle and of meditation.

Was going to post a picture of my mother here,,,,

remorse

of course I have nothing to say about Dante or Heidegger. Not even about sex. My previous post was just a matter of speaking ... in fact I have nothing to say. Remorse? Regret?

searching for Dante Aligheri

Now that Weiner is finished, need a new sex scandal. This blog got nice traffic from all these sex scandals. Thank you Weiner and Kahn and all. Nobody comes to visit when I say something about Dante or Heidegger...Why wonder? The internet became truly popular only when it allowed all these sex sites and porn videos and chats ....

what was what

Latin? Bible and Italian Justice

It was rupture, not rapture. Misreads and miscalculates.... while  in Italy they prosecute scientists....

crazy ....

Of course crazy. A hockey player. A congressman. A New Yorker married outside his faith.Not heeding Pelosi. I like him although he gave me an impossible hard time ten years ago.  Crazy me?.

queens view

Role Reversal

Sarah Palin's emails are not scandalous, Weiner's have photos of his sex. The reverse would be more exciting...Who orchestrated this is a great farceficator

exchange rate

My father was pretty much a coward. Afraid of everything. But in the darkest years of communist repression, if he saw the opportunity to place a bon mot, he would go for it. Be what it may. So Jon Stewart cannot not stop himself to joke about his friend....a kingdom for a joke...

dancing congress of weiner

The congress does not move forward, it dances. Its members stexts. We rock and roll down the drain...

the view from wife

As long as men wield power the story will be about sex. When women will be in power everything will be about shoes.

embarassing....

 Never maturing. Weiner sending  semi-pornographic messages to unknown people, via the internet . Not very much different from my writing this blog.

debunking photography

if you take enough pictures, one of them will look good. Even looking at new jersey

Wein voir les comediens

I used to like this guy, but pretty sure he did send this picture. Can forgive everything but bad sense of humor...and it was...or was this some kind of deprecating ...calambour

wrong blog

My post WRONG ADDRESS got most hits over the years. Obviously lost souls drifting  in a sea of words with no wind in their sails...imagine their disappointment when they reached this...

Reached that age

..When I look in the mirror and don'r recognize myself. Don't spot myself in group pictures.I saw myself dealing with life's trials and know who I am by now. Just don't recognize myself...never accepting...

Predicting disasters

These scientists should have known. In Italy they tried Galileo who actually had said E pur si muove..

Finished

Missed the train. No departure. Derapture. In fact it was a physical impossibility. Too many sinners. Oh Dostoevsky!

waiting..... the entrapture

this year the Apocalypse falls today Officially, I mean. What matters is how many sins you have. But who's counting?