Jottings from the Granite Studio

I know, I know…NCAA pool brackets are like children, never talk about them because either people have some of their own (and so don’t care about yours) or they don’t (and so wouldn’t understand anyway.)
Nevertheless in the interest of holding myself up for public ridicule, here goes:
UNC, Tennessee, Kansas, Georgetown, Memphis, Texas, UCLA, and Duke [...]

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As regards the situation in Τibet, I’ve said elsewhere that history is a slippery ally when forced into the service of contemporary political disputes.
Let’s set aside the Mongols for a moment. They ruled an empire that stretched from Korea to Kiev, so one could use the Khans to make all kinds of territorial claims. Yuan [...]

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