Tag Archives: new york times

A lot can happen between $413m in tax evading inter-generational gifting and the destruction of the free world as we know it

Posted on October 3, 2018 by markweiss86
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If Beale Street could read

Posted on September 6, 2018 by markweiss86

I’ve been walking around all morning with a shopping bag and the 16 readable items: and if you can use digression and picture rather than Blanchett picture in your own mind man name Sri SRI and not a Stanford military … Continue reading →

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Brodie Jenkins as The Cathedrals / 2 at le Poisson in NYC

Posted on June 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Hats off to Yoshi Kato for his preview of Live 105 BFD, in the Palo Alto Weekly, for focusing on Cathedrals, which is a two-person rock band electronica featuring Brodie Jenkins and Johnny Hwin. Best music news story I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Taylor Swift in Times and on Big Machine at Starbucks

Posted on November 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed that the New York Times, on my stupid smart phone none the less, made mention of Taylor Swift “1989” selling 1.3 M in the first week, and then stopping at the Starbucks on Alameda de Las Pulgas in … Continue reading →

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Colorado dissent debate and Lytton Plaza

Posted on September 24, 2014 by markweiss86

The Chronicle teed me up and the New York Times online hit me home about some noise out of Arvada, Colorado where a school board wants to revise U.S. History so as to produce a citizenry that is less likely … Continue reading →

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Good luck, Zephyr Teachout in New York

Posted on September 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I am running for Public Office in Palo Alto, California. I am very inspired by Zephyr’s work, as described in The New Yorker and The New York Times. (see “The Crooked and The Dead, by jill lepore) I was wondering … Continue reading →

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Kimmelman on Ray Johnson, circa 2002

Posted on August 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Look to your left (Liberty Street) and you will see the small turn-of-the-century French pastry in creamy, classically-detailed stone that housed the neighboring Chamber of Commerce. To your right (Cedar Street) is a stone-faced building of the first great skyscraper … Continue reading →

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Belgium: Field trials planned of GM poplar trees for ethanol

Posted on July 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on chrislang.org:
Why are scientists researching this dangerous, untested false solution to climate change, when other real solutions already exist? By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 127, February 2008. Late last year, the Flanders Institute for…

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From VTA to Vatican for former Gunn High journalist

Posted on March 14, 2013 by markweiss86

Jim Yardley reports in The New York Times today from Vatican City on the surprise choice of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis. In 1981 I edited his first byline, an article about Gunn High students who took what is now … Continue reading →

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Announcing Earthwise Productions Institute and news-reading service, not necessarily in that order

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

WE RECOMMEND YOU BUY THIS BOOK: Niners Stadium price shows how stakes are rising, by Gwen Knapp, who the very busy doctor, dad and blogger from the midwest Dr. Brian Moore, a transplanted New Englander helpfully or perhaps wishfully remembers … Continue reading →

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