If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high, You’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that simple’ I received this holiday offer and thought I’d pass it on. My hosting company, siteground, sends something out each Christmas for friends and family. This year it was a ten dollar …
Bad Blood
Some days I wish I could sit on a park bench feeding birds all day, or at least spend all day watching those who do. Research, seminars, and working with an assistant who oozes a musty/sweet asphyxiating perfume, are all wearing me down. I love most every minute of my …
A Closet With A View, And Other Saturday Evening Sundries
Sundries for an early Saturday night. In his article Rise of Nuclear Alarmism, John Mueller (Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies), asks and answers “how we learned to start worrying and fear the bomb — and why we don’t have to”. …
You Can Get There From Here
I’m either buried in research, taking part in some analycentric project at work, or drinking red wine. That’s the truth of it. Currently I’m trying to figure out what to do with the excessive number of books littering my study and bedroom floors. In the save pile, the old Ogden …
Mecurial Monday
Several things. One: If you are going to come to my website via a proxy, at least make it a good proxy, not one called Hide My Ass, traceable, by way of Norway, rom Midwestern state via Q West. I despise cowards. Two: The most important really. I meant to …
Welcome To The (Word) Jungle
What follows is a jungle of words woven from — in my head — notes for future blogs posts. Rarely laconic, this post might be stretching it, even for me. I wrote in it a coffee shop this afternoon while waiting for a friend. Be gentle. Notes: ugly happens, complaints …
