Got to the Greenmarket at around 2 p.m. Really crowded.
The Mutsu apple (also known as Crispin) was introduced in 1948 and is a cross between the Golden Delicious and the Indo apple varieties first grown in Japan, and named after the Mutsu Province of Japan, where it was presumably first grown.
I don't buy many CDs, I bought this one.
Wow, only three hits last night. The better team, the hotter team won. Now the Yankees should sign Cliff Lee and throw the Baseball world into another frenzy. Since my baseball season is now over, time to hit the books. Corruption, Quantum Physics, High Finance, Herman Melville, Ancient Rome and Sports are on the agenda
Speaking of corruption, The New York State Inspector General's Report on the Aqueduct Racino Contract reads like a novel, 308 pages of Lobbyists gone wild and"Pay to Play."
Series of essays on life in Ancient Rome.
They are pretty funny on the radio, let's see if it translates to the written word.
The British side of cracking the atom.
From the Random House web Site:"The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against “Big Tobacco” and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter day Robin Hood, and portrayed in the movie, The Insider, as a dapper aviator-lawyer. Scruggs’ legal triumphs rewarded him lavishly, and his success emboldened both his career maneuvering and his influence in Southern politics--but at a terrible cost, culminating in his spectacular fall, when he was convicted for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi state judge. "
This is coming out in November. Rolling Stone has an excerpt. Should be fun.
All this talk of scams and Long Cons puts this classic back on the reading list. Here is the E-Text.
"Could you put confidence in me for instance?"
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