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Vacation 28 Jul 2009 | 02:50 am
I am on one, probably until midway through this week. Posting should resume somewhere thereabouts. Posted in Talking About Oneself
Once You Pop… 23 Jul 2009 | 04:36 am
It’s almost impossible to stop. Executive power is funny like that: President Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional gro...
In Defense of Giving Trees (and maybe jesus too.) 21 Jul 2009 | 10:58 am
Schwenkler considers bad children books, and immediately chops down one of the pillars of my childhood: The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. I guess that this is a pretty common target in these kind...
Bacterial Cities 18 Jul 2009 | 05:26 am
Yes, Horton, there is a city on your toothbrush: These slimy bacterial colonies, known as biofilms, add a remarkable new dimension to our understanding of the microbial world. Ever since Louis Pasteu...
Further Ruminations on Macho 17 Jul 2009 | 10:44 am
Thinking over yesterday’s reasoned argument ranty screed about America’s masculine sensibilities and our notions of the heroic, I was reminded of an excellent Foreign Policy article by Riehan Salam ab...
‘Merican Masculinity (Or, It Was Never That Good) 16 Jul 2009 | 04:03 am
I apologize for the light posting over the last couple days… Job search stuff occasionally winds up being amazingly time consuming, especially when it seems to be productive. Unfortunately it looks li...
A Directory of Terrifying Things 12 Jul 2009 | 02:07 pm
Look, I love the idea of social capital as much as the next guy. But this is taking it way to far… Fig 1.2: A Nightmare Realized The above artifact, a “Reputation Statement of Account,” was designe...
Cameron and American Conservatism 12 Jul 2009 | 01:53 pm
(Cross-posted at Post Right) It’s probably a bad idea to get into the habit of linking as heavily to the Times as I have been in the last few week, but, I was really quite impressed by this weekend’s...
Cyprian ctd. 11 Jul 2009 | 04:23 am
Man, the more I read his writing, the more Cyprian is becoming my new favorite church father… Who else’s eschatology is so scatological, I ask you? This quote, from an online excerpt of De Mortalitate...
Harrison on the News Hour 11 Jul 2009 | 04:18 am
Fig 1.1: A Man and his Book There was a fantastic report on the News Hour about Jim Harrison last night… He’s been one of my favorite writers since I read The Road Home at the urging of a friend back...
