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Tag Archives: Cairo

Cairo, Illinois.

25-Mar-11

Paramus Old Maytag repair shop, Commercial Avenue, Cairo.

At Cairo.

25-Mar-11

Duisburg I remember as a kid reading about Cairo, Illinois, the town that sits at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and even then I wanted to go there, fascinated by the idea of such a meeting of waters.  The town is mentioned in Huck Finn – it should have been the place where Huck […]

Ugh.

04-Feb-11

This kind of stuff gets my inner Robespierre rolling.  $70 billion?  This is an estimate, of course, but apparently it’s a good enough estimate to make the news.  With all due respect to Christopher Hitchens’ intellect, the universe is not rationally coherent unless it finds some way to avenge itself in some horrible way on […]