Tag: reading

Quoting from The Poor Man: He Sat Right Down And Wrote Himself A Letter: [I]t is a waste of time to teach utterly uninterested schoolkids how to calculate reaction rates and trajectories of cannonballs and so on, things which are going to be about as useful to most of them in the grown-up world as…

Thanks to Gwen, I’ve found gujari girl: I never thought the first person in Walnut Creek to whom I’d defend Oakland would be an Indian guy from New York! I’m now two L(G)L behind on photos. If I post mine we’ll have triangulation on a few of the scenes from the other day.

In following the Plame Affair updates this morning I was reading the comments following a post (about evil Bob Novak) at Kevin Drum’s site. One comment mentioned the Philip Agee story. I don’t know much about it, but it may have inspired the law that was allegedly broken from within the White House, and it…

In People Like Us, noninsane conservative columnist David Brooks writes Maybe somewhere in this country there is a truly diverse neighborhood in which a black Pentecostal minister lives next to a white anti-globalization activist, who lives next to an Asian short-order cook, who lives next to a professional golfer, who lives next to a postmodern-literature…

All my life, I’ve turned down the page at the corner of the book I’m reading whenever a passage of writing strikes me in some particular way: as writing itself, or because it confirms or disputes some ongoing argument I’m having with myself. The gesture is vestigial, the first step in highlighting or underlining, annotating…