August Doldrums I'm up in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, doing some research on a topic TBD. (Not the worst place to be working in the first week of August in what has been a miserable summer, at least in terms of the weather.) So the posts will be somewhat sporadic for the next few days...

Here are things I might write about if I had the time today:
1) Jason Giambi hitting as many home runs in a month (14) as the Yankee recordholder, Mickey Mantle (good)
2) John Bolton (bad)
3) The reaction I received when I told a group of science students, about half of them women, that I'd written a book about Larry Summers and Harvard (sarcastic laughter that surprised even me)
4) the question of why the New York Times sports section put a story about the Red Sox winning a game above the fold on page one, and how the Times is either giving Boston a nod, now that it wons the Globe, or trying to show its status as a national paper at the expense of hometown fans....

More tk....  ¶ 3:11 PM