Haven’t done one of these in awhile, so it’s Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday. I have read something I have been meaning to read for some time, Outcasts United. It is the story of the The Fugees (not the hip hop group), a soccer team of ethically diverse …
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is our generation’s Sputnik moment Great line. If you had to Google Sputnik you can still show your face here, but it’s probably better if you don’t say much. SOTU speeches and the various rebuttals make for a nice night of sitting …
Having more than the usual excess to blow off after a 1am jazz experience, I woke early for a decadence dispersion run. To do this I planned to run 6 or 7 miles, but I ran the canal with a girlfriend, and we were joined by an uninvited man. The …
Cover Lay Down’s single song Saturday is True Love Will Find You In The End (A birthday tribute to outsider musician Daniel Johnston), subject of 2005 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnson and some say one of the world’s finest musicians. Go over and check out the awesome covers of …
This post is part of NARAL‘s Blog for Choice Day 2011. Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011? That is the theme question for this year’s Blog For Choice. The answer is, of course I’m concerned. My biggest concern about choice …
Icy and with a downed power line or two in the neighborhood this morning, I stayed home. My research assistant wasn’t able to make it in because she lives outside the city, on an icy road, on an icy hill, and so on and so forth. She assured me an …
