”At last! I have discovered the formula for making the uneducated feel even MORE inadequate!” I almost wasn’t going to read the recent Paul Krugman column on the proud anti-science stance of mainstream Republican thought. You know, “this also just in: Fire is hot.” But it got so much attention in my social media circles, that I …
Monthly Archive: August 2011
Aug 25 2011
In (Reluctant) Defense of Mitt Romney
EXCLUSIVE: Human beings enjoying the company of Mitt Romney I have no love for Willard “Mitt” Romney. He has consistently proven that he is an unprincipled opportunist who bends with every minor political breeze. There is no shortage of statements he’s made and positions he’s held that deserve criticism and ridicule. So my feeling is, let’s …
Aug 24 2011
Cory Booker: Maker of Twitter Lemonade
The mayor has indicated that, should your schedule permit, he would like to put a little love in your heart. If you have at all dipped your social media teacup into the political Twitter river, you will no doubt have happened upon several servings of Newark mayor Cory Booker’s near-obsessive interactions. I say “interactions” because …
Aug 16 2011
So Long, and Thanks for All the Text
The text stops here. My webby little heart is broken, as I have just read that author and scholar Alan Jacobs is retiring his blog Text Patterns. It’s hard for me to overstate Text Patterns’ influence on me and this blog. Jacobs opened up a whole new world of topics to cover in my own blog writing, helping me discover …
Aug 04 2011
What’s a Book Review For?
Miranda Celeste Hale (my Bespectacled Blog Twin™) writes thoughtfully and passionately in favor of the continued existence of the book review, a counter argument to a piece from n+1 by Elizabeth Gumport. On the whole, I agree with Miranda’s take. Here’s the meat of her argument: Although Gumport would deny it, there’s a reason why many of us still read publications …
Aug 01 2011
Trojan Asteroid Follows Earth, Reinforces My Insecurities
It turns out that our fair planet has been tailed by a shy asteroid for perhaps thousands of years. This “Trojan asteroid” is caught between the gravitational tugs of Earth and the Sun, and is doomed to follow us around in our orbit, and there may be others like it. Per the LA Times: “This is …
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