Sitting in Dave’s Coffee in Charlestown RI, right off route 1. Some light jazz playing in a funky and laid back atmosphere, and I’m finishing a “monster muffin” – which is damn big and was still warm and the raspberry is all gooey and red and sticky and the iced coffee is good, approaching very …
Moving, regardless of the opportunities it will bring . . . sucks.
Moving apart after being together for 4 years, regardless of the rightness of the decision . . .
Yeah, that sucks too.
A lot.
Happy Birthday Toni Arruda.
Wherever you are.
I just found this great media website, Fora.tv, and am currently watching a talk given by George Lakoff, after watching a speech by Neal Stephenson and one by Malcolm Gladwell. If you are interested in watching smart people talk about fascinating subjects, check it out.
Bill of Rights The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added. Article the first [Not Ratified] After the first enumeration required by the first …
Yippee!
Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.
It will be playing, for free, online between July 15 – July 20, with other distribution models to follow.
“For every day . . . there is a night.”
Ok, so maybe Academia isn’t quite like La Cosa Nostra, and maybe I’m not quite like Al Pacino as he exclaims “Every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in”—in large part because I kinda volunteered for this—but despite the whole leaving academia behind trip that I’m on, I just received …
(Flying the true colors of his flag: partisanship and lies) Important information the next time someone tries to argue against Habeas Corpus and actual Justice in relation to Guantanamo Bay: A new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law explodes the myth that some 30 detainees released from Guantanamo Bay prison have “returned …
(Jellyfish: Exactly the same amount of vertebrae as the Democratic Party) I can’t really write about the FISA events of the day without getting in a rage, but if you don’t know what happened today, if you don’t know that the 4th Amendment has been gutted and that the Congress has just sent a message …
The other day I read a piece by Laura Flanders in which she wondered, in the wake of Tim Russert’s death, what would happen if journalists demonstrated the same level of emotions and pain toward other deaths, asking: I know it’s possibly a subversive thought for all those deluded believers of objectivity in journalism — …