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Chess City, Dubai

Some more ways to feel good about Bush winning the election

1. Think on geological timescales.

2. Recall all the times things looked bad, then turned out good. Or when they seemed to be good, but were in fact bad.

3. Petite Syrah.

4. Decide that Teresa Heinz Kerry must be an anagram for something evil. [YE ERR: THE ARK IS ZEN, maybe?]

5. Learn macrame, kick boxing, or the ferns of California.

6. Exercise all the time.

7. Effect change locally, perhaps by doing the dishes, or cleaning the catbox.

8. Be thankful no Kerry signage remains to be removed from cars, or front lawns.

9. Schadenfreude: Bush is going to have a horrible second term, and it's going to be fun to watch the world blow up. Remain confident I won't be caught up in it myself.

10. Cryptic crosswords.

Road to Reality

I talked to Tom Rodgers today on the phone and he told me about this new book by Roger Penrose, apparently not planned for release in the US until 2005, but already available in the UK (that's amazon.co.uk in the link).

It's over 1000 pages.

That's a reality check. If I get it, I'll put it underneath my copy of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's Gravitation.

Some ways to feel good about Bush winning the election

1. Move to New Zealand

2. Have an abiding, irrational faith in the collective wisdom of the good people of the United States.

3. Watch more Fox News.

4. Recall Clinton's disappointing final four years. Project negative images onto Kerry.

5. Withdraw from worldly concerns, ignoring the trouble. Eat good, organic vegetables. Study Buddhism.

6. Baseball.

7. Mathematics.

8. Physics.

9. Cancel subscription to New York Times.

10. Cancel subscription to The Nation.