When our forefathers ratified the constitution, I doubt they envisioned over two hundred years later my contribution to democracy would include sitting down to a vice-presidential debate with a pitche… more →
Claw~less & Ball~lessStephen Foster wrote 2 months ago: It’s a Woman in Chains, as Tears For Fears so eloquently noted. What is it that is so exercisi … more →
Allan wrote 2 months ago: There were several lessons to be learned from last night’s Harvard football game against Brown … more →
indignant2 wrote 4 months ago: Women with wailing, whiny, squealing voices who sing along to the music during keep-fit classes. Ple … more →
cyranowriter wrote 7 months ago: Instead of staying up and caterwauling and denying my busting nut by not late-night calling, Why don … more →
Maia wrote 7 months ago: Ruh-oh. In this op-ed, Columbia’s Mark Taylor promotes some dumb, dumb ideas about higher edu … more →
Allan wrote 8 months ago: Everyone knows about knocking on wood. If you say things are looking good, you knock on wood to mak … more →
Ziek wrote 8 months ago: I hate subjunctive history. It’s absurd; it’s misleading; it’s epistemologically v … more →
Allan wrote 8 months ago: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm One Mr. Geoffrey K. Pollum, an Edinburgh linguistics … more →
Evelyn wrote 8 months ago: …my new favorite website. Sometimes poignant… …sometimes hilarious… … … more →
Evelyn wrote 8 months ago: Playlist for the evening: John Mayer’s Continuum. Specifically, this track: Slow Dancing in … more →
Maia wrote 8 months ago: … is all we need to withdraw from numbness. For those with time, I offer a short, delicate tal … more →
Ziek wrote 8 months ago: Because sometimes men are confronted with things that simply and inescapably reduce them to what evo … more →
Allan wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I bought an Underarmour workout shirt. It is black, men’s size L, and the tag says things … more →
Maia wrote 8 months ago: I have this poster — the work of “street artist” Shepard Fairey — taped abov … more →
Evelyn wrote 9 months ago: The other night, driving home for the first time in a long while, I kept getting distracted. I … more →
Maia wrote 9 months ago: After reading Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, I went to the zoo. This was a mistake. We wan … more →
Maia wrote 9 months ago: Could be old news on the blogosphere at this point, but this comment in The New Yorker, about Madoff … more →
Maia wrote 9 months ago: Next time I feel claustrophobic in Pusey 3, I’ll think covetously of this — Urban Medias … more →
Evelyn wrote 9 months ago: Several weeks ago, I wrote about how my hometown annually elects two Pig Catchers. As it turns out, … more →