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So in the past week two separate people who I do not know online mentioned that they stumbled across my blog. By this I mean they are people...

Along the lines of my recent post wondering at the lionization of Boris Yeltsin after his death, I bring you my perverse, open-mouthed wond...

I'm watching Bill Moyers Journal on PBS right now. He's reviewing media coverage of the lead-up to the current war (don't you k...

Interesting Traits of the Species # 847301: Why do we lionize people after they are dead? No matter who a person was in life, we tend to cr...

Well, its now just over a month until I leave this city for points west. I've done a lot of bitching and moaning about the parts of New...

I'm having a hard time comprehending the descriptions of Cho Seung-Hui's writing. ( sample .) I read the plays that are out on th...

It's funny that alot of people from my Grinnell year seem to be entering grad school in the fall. It's mostly funny because I am jus...

So here I was, trying to write a poem, and thinking about iambic pentameter, and listening to one of my current obsessions, the album In a R...

Rest in Peace, Kurt Vonnegut .

Here's an idea for a reality series. Take 27 million ordinary people, put them all together in a country, and then organize a botched in...