2010-01-30     “Feeding Strays”
2010-01-28     Starting Out
2010-01-23     Selling Your Kid
2010-01-19     Bonsoir, Chérie, Courage
2010-01-18     Land
2010-01-17     In the Ruins
2010-01-12     Earthquake in Haiti
2010-01-07     MLA-mation
2009-12-19     Culture Is Good For You
2009-12-04     Zoo
2009-12-01     Translation, Ethics of
2009-11-23     Postcards from the World Capital of Postcards
2009-11-11     A Plea for the Mandatory Retirement of the Author
2009-11-05     Afternoon of the Thyroid Snatchers
2009-11-03     Un Petit Verre de Rhum
2009-11-02     Academia's Most Lifted (Part 1 in a Series)
2009-10-20     If I Were in Your Place (And Maybe I Am)
2009-09-29     Beware Thy Neighbor
2009-09-06     The Bounds of Permissible Discourse
2009-07-28     Buying Time

2010-02-01     O Tempora, O Mores
2010-01-22     A Trip Back in Time: Haiti, 1983
2010-01-17     Coordination and the Long Term
2010-01-10     Column Gollums
2010-01-10     Divergent Thinking
2009-12-25     Not Even Lepers Could Save It
2009-12-02     “Redoing My Webpage”
2009-11-16     Type Freaks, Get Rx
2009-11-16     Lockjaw
2009-11-15     Brazen or Stupid, Your Pick
2009-11-08     By Their Covers
2009-11-02     Fund Fundred!
2009-11-01     Penny-Ante Fascism
2009-10-28     Self-Organizing Mobs
2009-10-21     Long Days
2009-09-03     Happiness at Any Price
2009-07-28     The Other Chain Gang
2009-06-15     Statistics, Anecdote, Rancor
2009-05-28     Slapstick
2009-04-28     Defense of Marriage

2006-11-07     specifically pacific
2006-11-07     Some relief, but give me more
2006-11-07     And Now From Command Central
2006-11-07     The Man in the Street Comes Out of the Rain

2010-01-24: The Munchausen mother is a parody of solicitude-- exaggerated, as parodies tend to be. The condemnation of her actions on TV delivers fame and, thus, perversely, the very gratification sought: another parody. We have here a classic feedback...

2010-01-23: “Increased attention from everyone involved, from the medics to the media” means that even the prosecution of such people may gratify their yearning for fame. This gets to be a worse nut the more I worry it. (And though we are only three...

2010-01-23: Curmudgeon, you saw farther into the issue than I did, and I salute the amazing cynicism of your comment. Thinking back over it, the the damage, I imagine, didn't occur when they inserted the feeding tubes or prescribed the needless medicines, but...

2010-01-15: And everything that's repulsive about the Net, here in one condensed package. An article by a rational person followed by an intense thread of free and open discussion, getting dumber and meaner all the time as the eristic rubber hits the elenchic...

2010-01-14: That's good news, if internet frustration can ever be described so. Another place to donate for Haiti is http://www.clintonfoundatio... I hear Bill Clinton made an extremely eloquent appeal on TV yesterday. Thanks, Bubba...

2010-01-14: SOIL is still running. The founder of that organization, Sasha Kramer, was in Cap-Haitien when the quake struck, so she and her associates have been able to deliver assistance rather than needing it. (One of the oddities of this disaster is the way...

2010-01-12: Erichobson, you spelled “fuck” right but you need to work on your “Confucius...

2009-12-23: The newspaper report gave no sign of surprise or controversy attending Professor George's promotion of a few local prejudices to the status of “reason” and “nature,” either, but seemed to take this as a serious intellectual...

2009-12-07: I should have been a Slavicist. Khlebnikov's zoo poem and Shklovsky's Zoo, or Letters Not About Love are clearly part of a long parade...

2009-11-05: “ya zui,” so called but is elegant the same as ethical? how I wish ethics reduced to aesthetics; that would be my personal happy place...