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About me

Introduction	A permanent work in progress
Interests	Comparative constitutions, Oxymoronic irony, Bureacratic intelligence, Post-baroque pre-modernist symphonic opera, Post-Victorian pre-modernist small group jazz, Tone poems, Golf by the book on truelinks courses against those with honest handicaps, Decent cheap red wine, Tolerance for others, Honest research, Great turns of phrase, Vulnerability to the ridiculous, Romantic intentionalism
Favorite movies	Dr. Strangelove, Casablanca, The Jackal [only the original], Don Juan De Marco, Get Shorty
Favorite music	Anything good.
Favorite books	Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan, The Inferno by Dante [with the Italian to read aloud], The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Anything by Mark Frost on golf, Anything by Bill James on baseball, Anything by Stephen Jay Gould that isn't on baseball.