On the perils of being willfully misinformed.
From the Crunchy Conservative himself, Rod Dreher: “This seems exactly right to me, and put me in mind of a conversation I had with a small business-owning friend around the election. I didn’t ask...
From the Crunchy Conservative himself, Rod Dreher: “This seems exactly right to me, and put me in mind of a conversation I had with a small business-owning friend around the election. I didn’t ask...
In the LA Times, from email from Claudene Christian to her friend Rex Halbeisen, the crew member who lost her life on the Bounty’s last voyage: “You know me, I am not a mechanical person...
In my introductory post I promised I would be writing about my Grand Unifying Theory of Slack, but so far have only hinted at my notions around its importance. I wrote the below last...
From the Star Tribune: The tall ship began to die early Monday morning in the hurricane-ravaged waters off the North Carolina coast. One of the HMS Bounty’s generators failed. Water flooded everywhere. The 180-foot-long,...
(Preamble, Part 1, Part 2) Well now, quite a bit of excitement here in Montauk recently; a near fist-fight, a boat launched and christened, a terrible storm with loss of life; all in one...
I detect rising butthurt on the twitters and internets over Facebook’s heavy-handed attempts to monetize the various plots that Facebooks share-croppers have worked hard to clear, plant, cultivate. I think this means I’m a...
The power is back on. My family and our house are unharmed. MON TIKI is unharmed. All things considered, damage to our town is minimal. This afternoon, trick-or-treating took place downtown as usual. Our...
So the town of East Hampton has declared a state of emergency. School is cancelled tomorrow, emergency personnel will be knocking on doors in low-lying areas. MON TIKI is deep in a well-sheltered corner...
Two news items from the world of digital commerce and culture catch my attention: 1) Facebook has started charging businesses for “better placement” of their updates to their Facebook pages. Mark Cuban is not...
I’m off to scout Hands Creek on Three Mile Harbor as a hurricane hole.
Wednesday noonish I’ll be at Hunter College, donning my Tony Comstock hat to present Bill and Desire: Love is Timeless at Diane Cage’s The Feminist Sex Wars class. Then later that afternoon I’ll be...
It was a perfect shirt-sleeve October day here in Montauk today. Even if MON TIKI had gone straight to the bottom I don’t think that could have ruined it.
In my previous post I mentioned that we were having the boat surveyed for insurance purposes prior to launch. My chief concern in having the boat insured is not loss, but liability. If you...
One or two previous post have concerned insurance, and insuring MON TIKI is all that stands between us and a launch this Saturday at Montauk Marine Basin. The surveyor was by today, impressed with...
Let me frame my observations with some disclosure: I would describe myself as a pro-commerce liberal. I favor workmen’s comp; I opposed mandatory employer-paid, non work-related disability insurance (required here in NYS). I oppose...
As implied the the Part 2, I am hoping that this Learning to Fall… series of posts will explore a theme, and today I better see the general shape of what I’m trying to...
From the prologue: There are a handful of pundits whom I avoid reading. I avoid reading them because I find them so reliably infuriating that I end up saying regrettable things; or at the...
From Noah Millman’s post at his Shakesblog at The American Conservative about Paul Thomas’ new film The Master: I still can’t make up my mind what to think about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new...
Those of you not interested in my sailing posts will probably not find much of interest in the below embedded interview with the Sailing Podcast. For those of you looking for a little encouragement...
One of MON TIKI’s carpenters was a ruined internet millionaire/rock-n-roll singer and guitar player with a difficult relationship with his children’s mother. One day he came to work with a small grey rabbit in...