March 15, 2010 – 10:12 pm
Many Westerners resented questions about their Eastern origins and either refused to answer inquiries or gave ha2y replies. Watkins seems to have been doing the latter. Early Wyoming pioneers recalled him as a noted hunter who supplied meat for Overland Stage stations. As the Laramie editor remarked, “Jack, like Nimrod, is [...]
March 14, 2010 – 10:20 pm
By 1871 Watkins had abandoned the pursuit of wild game for the pursuit of wild games on the lawless “Owlhoot Trail.” The contemporary press openly accused him of heading up an outlaw gang of horse thieves, and he terrorized the residents of Laramie and Cheyenne with his drunken sprees. A story survives [...]
March 12, 2010 – 10:36 pm
Middle-aged, I tried to find the greenhouse again, and failed. My father had no recollection. “He’d never have told him,” sniffed Winifred, my grandfather’s third wife. “He liked you. You were born in a caul. He liked that. It was quite an accomplishment, he always said.”
Toward the end of her life I [...]
March 11, 2010 – 11:44 pm
SHAPIRO: Let’s just take a step back and discuss the trademark issues here. I reduced tiffany necklaces that clothing designs, for example, cannot be trademarked, but something like the Louis Vuitton logo can. Where’s the line there?
Prof. SPRIGMAN: Well, clothing designs are not subject to trademark protection and they’re not, on [...]
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Living here is a little like marriage. There are limitations and a universe of satisfactions within them. I have developed a loyalty to what is. Yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the role the Internet plays in my willingness to be content. It is the bookmobile of now. [...]
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I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love playing Scrabble. Is there a more perfect game? It has an orderly multicolored board that resembles a crossword grid, 100 smooth and touchable wooden tiles, and 61 magical squares — the triple-word, triple-letter, double-word, and double-letter spaces — that offer the thrilling [...]
Stone, it seems, is having some problems with the city of Venice, California, over the height of a fence he wants to build around his house, and has been subject to multiple community-board meetings in elementaryschool gymnasiums presided over by grayponytailed dudes (“Anytime a guy with a ponytail is telling me [...]