[NOTE: Every now and then I re-post a previous essay that you might have missed first time around. This is one of them (slightly edited).] When I was a child, we were given a fair amount of homework. And although … Continue reading →
Live alone? Watch out; you may find yourself getting a mite too weird for comfort: In a sense, living alone represents the self let loose. In the absence of what Mr. Klinenberg calls “surveilling eyes,” the solo dweller is free … Continue reading →
I have a weakness for books. If I freely indulged myself, I’d be poverty-stricken in no time flat. I’ve got such long lists of books to read that if I were to actually to get to all of them it … Continue reading →
…that lately I seem to need to counter my political posts with an arts post, as a palate refresher. Politics still interests me, of course. But it’s been an exhausting topic recently, and a somewhat depressing one, and I find … Continue reading →
I’m one of those people who takes voting very seriously, so much so that I think I’ve voted in every general election and midterm as well. The only ones I’ve ever skipped are the off-years with just the very local … Continue reading →
I still buy CDs. But then, I’m a Leonard Cohen fan, and apparently that’s the sort of archaic thing we folks do. If I’m just buying a single song, though, I usually pay my 99 cents (or $1.29, because inflation … Continue reading →
…till tomorrow’s over and Florida is done. In fact, I can’t wait till the nominee is in the bag. And then the election can’t come soon enough. Maybe I’ve just gotten wimpier as I’ve gotten older, but this really did … Continue reading →
…writes
Continue reading →I have about a thousand things I could write today. But they’ll have to wait for this evening (well, not all thousand of them, but I plan to tackle one or two) because I have some other tasks to do … Continue reading →
You may not know about the 24-hour Wiki blackout*, but I certainly do, because it’s cramping my style. Just a little, anyway. Wiki is often a surprisingly good source for general background information, although it’s hardly impeccable. But then, few … Continue reading →
Isn’t the internet wonderful? Through this blog, I recently got the answer to a question that’s been tormenting me for close to fifty years. Well, maybe not tormenting exactly. But I’ve long been troubled by my inability to identify a … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker of Powerline has endorsed Mitt Romney, and John Hawkins of RightWingNews has said why he won’t be doing the same. Tigerhawk has summarized and compared the positions of both men, so I don’t have to do it. But … Continue reading →