Oct 31,2008
Conventional folly, Halloween edition
Scenes from the most frightening movie of all time:
Oct 31,2008
They call me the seeker
Lately, I keep seeing ads for this all over town, premiering this weekend. It was nagging my brain for a week before I realized it must be an adaptation of...
Oct 30,2008
This most disturbing news yet about this administration
Ordinarily, you only see things like this on episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Perhaps Andrew Sullivan can loan me an adjective or two, because I really don’t know what else...
Oct 29,2008
Adventures with the Daily Mail
Perhaps it’s because I’m a bad person, but I took rare delight in this article about Bono, narcissist and overrated singer: His humanitarian campaigning has earnt him the nickname St...
Oct 29,2008
A Liberal Education in Iraq?
Sometimes we educators in America worry that our universities are becoming too “professional” – that all the old notions of what constitutes a broad liberal education have fallen prey to...