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July 2013

July 31, 2013
Virginia Hughes looks at the way children process the concept of death, and the prevailing...
July 30, 2013
Jonathan H. Liu at GeekDad is putting a temporary ban on comic books for his...
July 30, 2013
Tim Kreider on the disorientation that results from accidentally discovering what people think of you:Hearing...
July 28, 2013
Following my previous post on introversion, the delightful Emily Hauser directed my attention to a...
July 28, 2013
Some studies are suggesting that introverts don’t know what’s good for them, and that by...
July 26, 2013
Anger:What do you mean I have to give a presentation?! I don’t have time to...
July 26, 2013
I'm still hung up on this fantasy notion of the United States being a little...
July 25, 2013
With a new tech gadget, particularly one made by Apple, I feel an overwhelming urge...
July 25, 2013
Photo taken by Kathy Santamore. 
July 24, 2013
The Nate Silver saga: Silver leaves the New York Times for ESPN, and the Times’...
July 23, 2013
Virginia Postrel at Bloomberg has an idea for saving bookstores like Barnes and Noble in...
July 23, 2013
Toad the Wet Sprocket is back together, much to my delight, and about to release...
July 21, 2013
“I’m the nicest guy I know, and I’m an asshole!”This is my standard line to...
July 19, 2013
Michael Gerson, though I have accused him of having a lizard brain and doing the...
July 19, 2013
Earlier this year, I was asked if one of my original songs, "Selfless," could be...
July 17, 2013
July 13, 2013
It is summer, which is a bad thing, I await the change of seasons, but...
July 13, 2013
Pratap Bhanu Mehta at the Financial Times compares American perceptions of threat and the liberty-security...
July 10, 2013
I am no libertarian. I find them, frankly, scary in their bizarre faith in markets...
July 06, 2013
What do I want this blog to be? Perhaps using that very word, blog, assumes...

June 2013

June 27, 2013
June 25, 2013
My new favorite YouTube star, Smooth McGroove has fulfilled what he told me was a...
June 25, 2013
Stephen Fry, one of my heroes, recently tried to commit suicide, and has since told...
June 22, 2013
June 21, 2013
No one is happier than I to see good takedowns of rhetorical straw men, particularly...
June 09, 2013
The NSA snooping story is fishy. Here's Ed Bott at ZDNet:. . . a funny...
June 08, 2013
Image by Miranda.
June 08, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, at Princeton:This is indeed an impressive...
June 03, 2013
Patrick Stewart magnificently describes his efforts in combatting (and his childhood experience of witnessing) violence...
June 03, 2013
It had seemed to me that, in the ideal, the chief distinguishing characteristic of the...
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