Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

If all goes as it should, then on Saturday I'm flying to San Diego. I'll be attending the California Cannabis Business Expo until Wednesday, the 8th. I'll be developing leads for future articles for a periodical that covers the field, perhaps covering the event itself as well, and I'll be helping with non-literary tasks such as matching registrants with events. This shouldn't interfere, dear reader, with your enjoyment of this blog on its usual schedule. I have prepared upcoming postings well in advance. I am fascinated (in a political-scientist sense) as well as pleased (as a human being who cares about others of my species) by the process slowly but surely bringing an end to the long ugly era of marijuana prohibition in the states, state by state and in open defiance of the continued presence of the stuff on the federal government's Schedule I. This time at least: bravo for federalism. If you're curious about the convention, here's a link:...

I did some traveling last weekend, much of it by Amtrak. I was almost continually on one or another of two trains for 2 and a half days. I had left what should have been plentiful room for down time in Chicago before making the connection between the one train and the other, but as it happened the Lake Shore Ltd was late getting into Union Station. I just had time for a quick lunch there Friday before looking for the gate for the Texas Eagle. I ate that lunch at a small snack bar that has a blackboard with a trivia question on it along side the menu items.  The trivia question when I arrived was, "Who said, 'I will hear in Heaven.'?" Those were, as you too might have guessed, the last words of Ludwig von Beethoven.  Unfortunately, you don't win any discount on the food by telling the waitress the right answer. I also picked up a Wall Street Journal in Chicago and learned of the arrest by New York State authorities of Sergey Aleynikov.  So his stunning v...