The Compass Rose

Ruminations on literature, art, politics, music, photography, design (architecture and landscape), wine and spirits &c.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Manet's pre-Modernist Challenge

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Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe [The Luncheon on the Grass 1863] is a painting by Edouard Manet [1832-1883]. It is a familiar painting, now re...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

The O.J. Simpson Psychopathic Confession

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Fox News decided to bring out its old Interview with O.J. Simpson, conducted in 2006 to promote a book to have been published by ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Sitting Pretty

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Latest from the stainless steel counter, a new combination made exclusively from liqueurs. 2 parts sweet vermouth 2 parts Cachac...
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Monday, February 12, 2018

Spring Training

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According to speculative reports I have read online, the San Francisco Giants' 2018 line-up is shaping up to look like this: An...
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Friday, January 19, 2018

Who Speaks For Americans?

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We live in strange times. The Democratic Party is holding the federal government funding package in Congress hostage to the Dreamers, who...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Cappy and Sabine

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We think of genetics as a science now, not a mystery.  Plato thought that the "soul" "entered" the body at birth,...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Winners Circle

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In the continuing search for better cocktail mixes, one recent effort stands out, and has therefore been dubbed the Winners Circle. In ho...
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