It's one of those lazy Sundays. sun out and a chill in the air. But I have too much to do -- grade papers. write up my interview with Chris Hedges, revise some poems. chop the leaves and cut the lawn, clean the rugs for Thanksgiving, [...] 
A couple of new poems on The Subterranean site -- "Still Life: Graveyard on Woodbridge Avenue" and "Notes on 'En La Casa De La Casa'."Send me an e-mail. [...] 
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Dispatches is on the bizarre logic in Washington that forces domsestic reforms to be measured against the deficit, but not military adventures.Send me an e-mail. [...] 
Grassroots -- on the undemocratic nature of the U.S. Senate -- is on The Progressive Populist Web site.Send me an e-mail. [...] 
Rosie is sound asleep -- it's amazing how she can go from being a ball of craziness to "Sleeping Beauty" in seconds.
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This week's Dispatches column focuses on the consitutional issues surrounding the marriage-equality debate.Send me an e-mail.' [...] 
Although I often feel this way about the Knicks, I rarely take it out on inanimate objects like the dogs did this morning to my hat.Then again, given that they tore into the couch and have been in maniacal mode since about 5:45, I don't think [...]
Sophie may look angelic, at least sitting by the front door before we leave for work, but don't let it fool you. She and her sister have been in rare form.They've been digging in the yard and rolling in the loose dirt, spreading the soil around [...]
What's brand worth? Apparently quite a bit. The purses are on sale for $149 -- regularly $329, That's obscene.For $150, I could get a new Blackberry or a DVD player.
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We're at the Coach outlet in Jackson browsing -- thanks to a coupon -- and it's packed. I know everything is on sale, but this seems crazy for a pre-Thanksgiving Saturday during a painful recession.Job numbers released yesterday were terrible -- highest unemployment rate in nearly [...]
We gave the dogs Nylabones for the first time since their major fight to see how they'd react.Sophie got hers first, while Rosie was outside. Rosie got one when she came in.
They had then for about 15 uncomfortable minutes, both looking up from their bones with [...]
We took the dogs for a long walk earlier, which we need to do more frequently. What I've noticed is that they tend to be better on their walks when they get out more frequently. So, that's what we need to do.Now, of course, we're watching [...]
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We will have a public option, but it appears that the plan being worked out in Congress will fall short of what it needs to do -- leaving more than 10 million Americans uninsured, limiting the public option available only to the currently uninsured and mandating [...] 
I almost made it to halftime, last night, before the bricklaying by the Knicks sent me scurrying for cover.It was opening night for what promises to be a long season, one likely to be full of distracted longing for the kind of superstar the team has [...]
Jack Wiler had a way with words.
One year today. It's hard to believe. And, you know, even with the crazy pups, I still miss my moosh.This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
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Sometimes, these two can be so cute, sitting together on the couch after a brisk walk. Then, other times, they try our patience and make us wonder what we were thinking.In the end, I wouldn't trade either of them for anything.
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One more song -- yes, "Heaven." Yes.This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
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The guys are incendiary -- "Ola Mamacita," an impromptu "That's Alright Mama," "Evil Ways" and "Crazy Dreams" -- wow.This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
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Alejandro Escovedo played a short, but brutally efficient set, inluding several from Real Animal and something from a stage production with which he was involved. There were several highlights, to offer an understatement, inluding an aggressive and explosive "Chelsea Hotel" that, while featuring two acoustic guitars, [...] 
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Alejandro Escovedo's on -- opens with "Five Hearts Breaking" Perfect for me because it was the song that first attracted me to his music.This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
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Hacienda, a San Antonio band that sounds like country Beach Boys and British Invasion pop, opens. So far so good.This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
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I left the office a little early today to check on the pups -- after their little episode Saturday night, we thought it best.I picked a good day to do so -- sunny and the temperatures are coming back up to normal.
Annie worked normal hours, which [...]
There is something more than a little troubling about books like the ones pictures, by Glenn Beck and Jerome Corsi and Michelle Malkin, that equate liberalism with treason. It's one thing to disagree -- Ross Douthat and George Will, who I find off base most of [...] 
Rosie and Sophie, as I've said before, like watching "The Dog Whisperer" -- maybe a bit too much. Rosie is good, but Sophie goes after the flat screen. It'd be funny if the TV wasn't in the line of fire.This message has been sent using the [...]
There is something comfortable about the chatter at Small World Coffee in Princeton, like a jazz band pushing its multi-piece improvisation into overdrive.The chattering din, dozens of voices playing against each other, the individual bits of conversation rising, making themselves known:
"The academic response," says one; "students [...]
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We'd planned on coming tonight, but not just for the book signing. We thought he was going [...]
I think it's going to be a hit. The new Confectionately Yours opened today and it looks great.We've been coming here for years and are friends with the owners, the Gondek family, so maybe we're biased. But dinner was great -- old-fashioned turkey dinner for me, [...]
What was I thinking, leaving a pair of sneakers in the den over night? Oh, I wasn't thinking and now I need news sneakers.This is what I meant by us need ing more training. It's not the dogs' fault when they act like dogs. It's ours [...]
Dispatches is up, based on an interview I did with Russia expert Stephen L. Cohen, who will be in Princeton on Monday to talk about his new book. Last week's can be found here.Send me an e-mail. [...] 
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I did three miles this morning, the second time this week I did three. It wasn't easy, but I did it. So, we go from there and see what happens, the goal being a half marathon in the spring.Send me an 
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I have never seen this before, all three brothers jamming on the same guitar at the same time ("I'm a Man").Send me an 
The filibuster is the target of this week's 
