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April 2012

April 16, 2012
This worries me a little (by Toby Litt in Granta): A couple of years ago, I spent three...
April 16, 2012
Advice I could stand to take, from Rob Beschizza, editor of BoingBoing: Getting snared by technology-tweaking,...
April 11, 2012

March 2012

March 17, 2012
Listening tonight to the nearly-unbearable “Retraction” edition of “This American Life” in which Mike Daisey is taken...
March 11, 2012
The so-called post-PC revolution came to my house. This has been my first weekend off...
March 08, 2012
Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning...

February 2012

February 26, 2012
Architecture professor Thomas De Monchaux, in a piece that has almost nothing to do with...
February 18, 2012
Richard Holmes’ 2009 tome is aptly titled. It’s a wonder, and it takes an age...
February 13, 2012
My mind (and sense of conscience) was blown by an article in n + 1 on the horror that...
February 07, 2012
D.G. Myers positions reading not as an escape but as a challenge to ourselves: To read an...
February 06, 2012
This should give you an idea about where my brain is at any given time....

January 2012

January 29, 2012
I know what you want. You want a heavily footnoted, yet deliciously readable academic tract on...
January 17, 2012
It’s obviously very important to Mitt Romney that people understand with absolute clarity what his...
January 05, 2012
At The Loop, Matt Alexander predicts the coming demise of e-ink-based readers. His contention, which may be...

December 2011

December 31, 2011
If you’re in the spheres of my online social networks, you may have noticed that...
December 28, 2011
I’ve not yet read any of Robert Caro’s enormous Lyndon Johnson biographical series, even as...
December 26, 2011
Just as I don’t actually have meaningful relationships or friendships with my 700+ “friends” on...
December 26, 2011
Almost a year ago, the New Yorker published a piece by Adam Gropnik digesting various tomes about what the...
December 26, 2011
Chris Stedman gives voice to a concern I’ve had of late (and unfortunately does so...
December 07, 2011
For my 34th birthday (December 1), my lovely wife commissioned a song about me from...

November 2011

November 25, 2011
As the tens of readers of this blog are no doubt sick of being reminded,...
November 22, 2011
I tell my almost-two-year-old son Toby how smart he is all the time. It was...
November 20, 2011
Friend-of-the-blog Marty Pribble picks up on my lamentations about the state of atheist/skeptic activism, and...
November 19, 2011
After working professionally in the atheist movement, something about my passion for the cause dwindled....
November 17, 2011
Michael Erard tells the tale of his avoidance of indulging in the trope he calls the Social Media...
November 16, 2011
 Might as well be Hitler. Few things are as frustrating to do-gooder liberals like myself...
November 15, 2011
David Brooks, from his fixed position as Moral Center of the Universe, bemoans our collective...
November 09, 2011
I don’t think anyone could have foreseen Rick Perry’s dizzying drop in support during the...
November 08, 2011
”Hey, ev’rybody! What’d I miss?” ** I don’t think anyone could have foreseen Rick Perry’s...
November 06, 2011
So, I thought that getting through the anniversary of my violent encounter on the streets...
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