Some additional reading August 25th from 12:22 to 15:10:
- Chinaskis and All You Can Eat Bacon – "one thing Chinaski’s has kept around is the Monday-night baskets of unlimited bacon. 1935 N Damen Ave at Homer St "
Unlimited bacon? And Bukowski? - I Am a Brilliant Original and Idiosyncratic Thinker but Don't Ever Disagree With Me – Richard Cohen a L.I.N.O., has perfected his wine. Matt Yglesias wonders why anyone reads Cohen:
"Cohen clearly relishes his self-conception as an independent thinker. And presumably the whole reason he’s glad to be a Washington Post columnist in part because that gives him a large audience of people who care about politics. Given all that, of course people will sometimes disagree with him! But that’s now how he sees it, and certainly he sees no need to engage with his critics on the merits — instead, they’re just like Communists!The whole mindset is bizarre but also bizarrely widespread. You’d think that people who write for a living about public affairs wouldn’t be so thin-skinned."