November 2008
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From a recent New Yorker article about a woman who got her house taken away:
We talked about Addie, and when the subject of her loan came up Dillon looked at Addie’s house and shook his head. The roof was patched, the fascia was rotting, and the porch sagged underfoot. He remarked, “When they said forty-five thousand dollars, I said, ‘Where’d the money go? I don’t see it.’ ” (Marco Sommerville,...
The dog ate my glasses
lizgoodwin:
Ingested them. Whole. Nothing is left but a few screws.
In other news, I am supposed to interview a documentary filmmaker who received the inspiration for his latest project from a pack of wild monkeys while he was engaging in a 20-day bout of fasting in the Costa Rican jungle.
I also tried to be social last night and went to a dinner party thrown by someone at work. The old...
“The campaign seemed to lurch from message to message, in part because Penn...”
– http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582/page/5
tank-related evidence
From this article about undecided voters.
Mr. Gerovasiliou supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, loved Bill Clinton and pretty much vowed to support anyone not named Barack Obama after he defeated Mrs. Clinton in the Democratic primaries.
But the Clintons’ endorsement of Mr. Obama went a long way. “Time healed things,” Mr. Gerovasiliou said. Plus, he likes Mr. Obama’s running mate, Senator...
