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On the birth of their son, this morning at 4:19 AM.  Linkage:  Sean’s Facebook page.  

Barnes discusses his novel, Arthur & George:

Nuby, originally uploaded by wheat.
Gina posted a few new pix of our boy, Haden, mostly from the recent Arkansas trip.  You can see the lot of them via this handy shortcut:  hadenmartin.com.

My new iMac arrived last week, so I’ve been busy porting over files, installing software, and learning about OS X and all things iMac (that’s Haden an me, playing around with Photo Booth).  
Back in the day, I was a Mac guy.  My dad bought me a nice Mac Classic II toward the end of [...]

Today’s Krugman is not to be missed:  ”Know-Nothing Politics.”  The term “anti-intellectualism” covers the same ground, but it probably has too many syllables for the people who need to understand it.  Though his words be immediately taken out of context (hell, I’ve done it in the title of this post), the point isn’t that Republicans [...]

Because life is incredibly busy at the moment, here’s a capsule summary of recent events, which I may or may not expand upon in later posts (time allowing):

We’re back from our Arkansas trip.  Haden’s Christening/Baptism went well, as did the big family brunch afterwards, which was the first time most of my family and Gina’s [...]