We’re back from the ICFA, which we loved as usual. Stephen Hawking died; Mitt Romney killed Toys R Us; what else is new?

We loved the ICFA. What did we miss?

My Swarthmore graduating class includes all sorts of nifty people, such as Judge Jed Rakoff, Eleanor Arnason, and a retired Foreign Service officer who wrote on our class web page:

As I promised his father I would be, I was at the grave in Arlington National Cemetery (Section 60, Grave 7986) of Capt. Humayun Khan during the swearing-in at noon on January 20. Not another soul in sight

Humans are scary.

Thanx to andrewducker

womzilla on the tube

Shoulda mentioned: costarring nellorat

We did not lose power, but we did lose Internet, which has just been restored. I will try to catch up.