I was in a very bad mood when I woke up this morning and my mood got even darker when I glanced I at my books-waiting-to-be-read pile. I like to read something while I sit down with my cup of … Continue reading
I can’t get the hang of the blogging business. Is it better to leave comments on their blog or write a counter-blog of your own? Maybe you should blog then comment on theirs with a link back to yours? But … Continue reading
In my RSS feed this morning, I have three blog entries from otherwise normal-seeming people who suggest that maybe it’s somewhat unusual to invade foreign countries without a really good reason. There was mine, of course, and Ron’s – it … Continue reading
Dreaming of Aaron. Continue reading
I know almost nothing about Lamont except that he is very, very rich and that he just won the Democratic primary for the senate seat in Connecticut that Joe Lieberman considered his own. For all I know, Lamont may or … Continue reading
As unscientific as it may be to extrapolate from three data points, this heatwave may be *Strike Three against the climate change deniers – not that they would be troubled by such trivial distinctions as scientific vs non-scientific. The tsunami … Continue reading
Andrew Sullivan posts a letter from someone who claims to be a Cultural Catholic. Andrew doesn’t like the idea at all and proposes an acid test for being a Christian [a believer in the resurrection and the message of the … Continue reading
Francis Crick will be up on my Wall of Heroes with Bob, George, Winston and the others. Continue reading
Stephen Colbert encouraged his viewers to demonstrate the wikiality – if enough people believe that something is true, then it is true – of Wikipedia. He asked everyone to edit every article on that mentions elephants and add the fact … Continue reading
Henry Jenkins does an interesting bit of search and replace … USA Today can’t resist jumping on the DOPA bandwagon though, tossing off in the middle of an article otherwise concerned with youth engagement with social networking the following: To … Continue reading