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Here’s a 2003 graduation speech by the president of Principia College. It’s about how busyness keeps us from truly living. Now, because the college is affiliated with Christian Scientists, the tenets of that faith really fill up the second half of the speech. Still, it’s got a lot of good points about How We’re Living [...]

Nice piece on BusinessWeek.com about how presidential administrations invariably reject the policies of their immediate predecessor.

Bill Haseltine has retired from Human Genome Sciences, and Chris Byron in the NYPost takes the opportunity to tear him a new hole. I only mention this because, last fall, I sneaked out of a speech by Haseltine at a translational genomics event I was attending in Phoenix, AZ. Why did I sneak out? Because [...]

Peter Ustinov died this weekend. I never really followed his work in movies and TV, but Lauren Christy did.

Hey, VM readers! I’ve decided to start bringing in guest bloggers as part of my nefarious strategy to develop Virtual Memories into something more like a magazine than a monologue. This week’s guest entry is from Todd Kutyla, who provides us with an introduction to Capitol Offense, an occasional column that’ll discuss the absurdities of [...]

Now that they know, of course, we’ll have to mobilize the cabal. It’s hard to believe Gary Kasparov is mixed up in this. I would’ve thought this was Bobby Fischer’s terrain . . .

Why did someone look up jana novotna oops photos on Google this morning, leading him (I’m guessing it’s a him) to this site?

The 9/11 commission is in full witch-hunt mode, blaming Clinton for not (illegally) assassinating Bin Laden and blaming Bush for not preemptively invading Afghanistan. The commission members and their staff seem to have forgotten the administration-crippling effects of Clinton’s philandering. Thanks to his inability to keep his cock in his pants, years of his administration [...]

Saw The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. If you ever tried to forget her/him, you oughtta see it. If you ever wanted to call her/him, months after it’s all over, you oughtta see it. If you ever let failed love for someone make you put your life in a holding pattern, you [...]

Just added Mark Cuban’s blog to the list of links I like. He’s done wonders for the NBA in a pretty short time. I’ll ramble about the phenomenon more extensively sometime (thus driving away my few remaining readers).