I heard on the news tonight
as I was driving home that the National Marine Fisheries
Service has already agreed to put in place new emergency
regulations after meeting with New Bedford's Mayor Kalisz
in Washington today. Many people at fault the "days at
sea" regulations for the loss of the Northern Edge.
Here
it is in the Boston Herald.
At least he didn't have to pronounce Leviathan to get the
feds to listen to him. :-)
Drving home in the rain last night,
Nancy and I were talking about why coffee is generically
called Java instead of, say, Sumatra or Molucca or
Ache... and then got to wondering about how the tsunami
affected the coffee crops in Indonesia. Come to think of
it, we've been a global society for a lot longer than we
think we have.
Another random thought, where was
Governor I've Got Great Hair and Live in Utah who now
professes to love Massachusetts (apparently his
presidential trial balloons are bursting) and wants to
run for re-election (can this be true? A Massachusetts
governor not only serving out his term but running for a
second one?) during the Northern Edge memorial? It
seemed to be mainly Democrats at the service (Barney
Frank, Ted Kennedy (kinda weird, that)) and on the
mission to Washington with the mayor. I know he thinks
scallops come from restaurants, already in their
Coquilles St. Jacques identity and that boats are for
recreation, but you'd think he'd pick up on Massachusetts
culture after visiting here for so long.
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Today's
Reading
Moby Dick by
Herman Melville, The Highland Jaunt: A Study of James
Boswell and Samuel Johnson upon their Highland and Hebridean
Tour of 1773 by Moray McLaren
Last
Year's Reading
2004
Booklist
This Year's
Reading
2005
Booklist
Photo
Kobo's bones
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