May 2007

Year of Magical Thinking



Stunningly beautiful and sad. Vanessa Redgrave is delicious even in her Joan Didion battyness - or because of it. Makes it seem as if all strong talented gifted women have a common core, what beauty or truth is, as Keats said more eloquently.

Not everyone has lost their minds

"The president cannot eliminate constitutional protections with the stroke of a pen by proclaiming a civilian, even a criminal civilian, an enemy combatant subject to indefinite military detention."JUDGE DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, writing for the majority in a ruling by the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va.