
I decided to stop being a hermit and take the afternoon off (i.e., get out of my apartment). Went to the National Gallery of Art, the West wing (i.e., the old stuff). Hard to say what I liked the most, though the Rembrandt/Vermeer use of light is simply amazing. And I've always had a soft spot for Lautrec. These were a few of my favs:





Predatory lending has an ugly tail end
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Talk about burying the lede. The NYTimes has run a story which purports to
be about the plans by the Treasury Department to pressure banks to do more
to re...
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