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Graphs, Maps, and Trees! Oh My!
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Franco Moretti's book Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History takes a novel approach to literary criticism: inste...
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Diane Ravitch Speaks About Education
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This Diane Ravitch lecture is rather long and dry (like Diane Ravitch's excellent and comprehensive book, The Life and Death of the Grea...
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I Act In The Same Manner As My Six Year Old Son
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I recently reported how my fanged son (he lost his two front teeth) gets distracted any time he sees a reflective surface because he is fas...
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Gran Torino: This Is How The Engine Runs
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The characters in Clint Eastwood's film Gran Torino are unrealistic caricatures-- Walt's grand-kids are overly obnoxious, his chil...
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I See The Future and It Is Yellow
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Ian had a couple of night-time peeing accidents just before our trip to Washington D.C.-- he is a very sound sleeper-- and we were worried...
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Sometimes It Is Good To Vent Your Anger
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I skimmed this insane article and it seems that Play Doh really is non-toxic and edible (although there is a petroleum based lubricant in i...
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Another Awkward Moment in A Long Line of Them
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As a teacher, you hope that you are forewarned certain things about your students, or else incidents like this and this are going to happ...
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I Apologize to Educators Everywhere . . . But Honestly, What Do You Expect From A Greasetruck Song?
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Apparently, biology teachers are showing my animated video "Amoeba Love" in class, thinking it's a cute way to illustrate bina...
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Bonus: Daryl Bem Owes My Fraternity A Citation!
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If you are interested in scientific studies on clairvoyance and a stunning revelation on the true origins of the "genius" Daryl B...
We Convince Ourselves That We Are Improving
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My adult league soccer team remained undefeated after a hard fought 1-1 tie on last Monday night, and we convinced ourselves that we were im...
It's Hard To Get Angry When I Would Do The Same Thing
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My six year old son Alex recently lost his two front teeth and while this has caused him no problems at meal-time (he can still eat an apple...
Arcimboldo is the Winner!
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During our whirlwind four day tour of Washington DC, our kids walked us into the ground: we visited the Baltimore Aquarium, The Linco...
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Comment Away . . . You Might Become Slightly Famous
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I was poking around the software that monitors visitors that come to this blog, and I noticed that several people had googled the words &quo...
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Dueling Definitions
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Kevin Kelly juxtaposes two definitions in his new book What Technology Wants ; the first is Alan Kay's: "Technology is anything in...
A One Sentence Summary of the New Testament
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While we were standing in front of an impressive bas-relief tableau of Christ on the Cross in the Washington National Cathedral, my five ye...
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Warning: This Post May Contain Toilet Humor
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One of the original motifs of this blog is how much I cherish when my wife screws up, but this doesn't happen very often (thus the cher...
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Almost Forgot To Post!
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Just arrived home and this is all I have to say: I was in Chevy Chase and you weren't.
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Invictus is Pretty Good . . . But It's No Ruck and Maul
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Clint Eastwood's movie Invictus is just as much about rugby as it is about Nelson Mandela, and although the film doesn't try to exp...
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F#@%* The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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I'm going to give Guy Deutscher's new book Through The Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages a perfect t...
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My Time Is Near
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The English Department has been hosting some creative parties lately: we had a Minute to Win It Party at my house (this was all Catherine, b...
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My Attention Span is Wack
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I didn't make it through The Wackness but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie, it's just a little slow and melancholy and re...
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Denial Ain't A River in Egypt
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Most of us are happily in denial (I forget about my receding hairline each and every day, but a look in the mirror shocks me back to reality...
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Zizekian Aphorisms
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I started watching Michael Moore's documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, but it seemed anecdotal in its evidence, without any real the...
High Concept Check-Out
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The burly cashier at Stop and Shop told the dude in front of me that his total, $8.68, was a "palindrome," and that sometimes-- on...
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A Sacrifice I Will Make For My Children
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For the next ten years I am going to exclusively listen to jazz and classical music-- no rock or punk-- so that my kids have the opportunity...
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Ali's Favorite Story About Dave
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Here is Ali's contribution to the incredibly popular recurring series I like to call Your Favorite Story About Dave (Fit to Print on a R...
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Paradoxical Activity
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When we begin Hamlet in my English classes, I like to assume the role of the skeptical scholar Horatio; I force my students to ask me if I ...
No Surprise Ending Here
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This article makes the new anti-addiction drug sound pretty great (no urge! no craving!) but what happens when the addictive people who nee...
Where Good Ideas Come From: Steven Johnson
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It took someone far smarter than me-- the polymath Steven Johnson -- to explain what I am doing here at Sentence of Dave . . . though you wo...
I Realize I Have Learned Nothing
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Note to self: do not eat a salmon burger before a night soccer game (and you'd think I'd have learned my lesson about heavy meals be...
Governor Christie Needs to Read His Shakespeare
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In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , the characters are bound to each other both by their inherent status and by the contracts they...
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Stacey's Favorite Story About Dave
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We recently reviewed Terry's Favorite Story About Dave , and today we will tackle Stacey's Favorite Story About Dave, and this story...
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Dave's Key to A Happy Marriage
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The key to a happy marriage is this: when you hear your wife pull into the driveway, get off the couch, race to the kitchen, and start doing...
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A One Sentence Review of a 562 Page Book
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John Franzen swings for the fences with his new novel Freedom , and in a sense his Tom Wolfe-esque survey of America-- through the eyes of a...
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Is This A Joke?
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A Jordanian, an Indian, a Cop, a Slovakian Chemist, a Sicilian, and Red Headed White Guy walk into a bar . . . but it's not a joke; it i...
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Kids These Days
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So I'm eating lunch in the English office and this kid walks in without knocking-- which is totally unacceptable-- and he picks up this...
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Listen to Uncle Genghis
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In Imperial Grunts , a fairly positive review of American special forces around the world, Robert Kaplan does remind us that we could have ...
Sometimes My Wife is Retarded Like Me
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My wife had a long stressful day at work on Monday (she went to the wrong school for her work shop, and then when she finally found it, it t...
Fifty Percent Canine/ Fifty Percent Feline
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In the early chapters of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages , Guy Deutscher contrasts the difficul...
A Wheelbarrow?
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Last Friday was one of my strangest afternoons as a soccer coach: though the sun had been out for days, our field was still a mess-- there w...
Terry Recalls the Best Story About Dave
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Like all people, I am both intrigued and apprehensive about how others perceive me, and so-- during an office conversation on the interplay ...
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Some Kids Just Don't Get My Brilliance
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Last week I was teaching my students the importance of beginning their college essay with an engaging opening, and I decided to illustrate t...
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Sometimes Music Makes You Feel Guilty
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Ian has learned how to work a CD player and loves to listen to music, and so I gave him my CD collection (which is housed in one of those gi...
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Ian Likes to Move Around . . . A Lot
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I did not go to Back to School Night for my kids (since I go to school every day, I don't have to attend) but Catherine reported that Ia...
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Cold Weather: An Ode
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I like it when the weather turns cold because then I feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of our house.
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The Usual From Zizek
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I am making my way through Slovenian super-brain Slavoj Zizek's new book Living in End Times , and interspersed amongst the neo-Marxist ...
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I Am Not Vacationing in Colombia Any Time Soon
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The ESPN documentary The Two Escobars traces the rise and fall of the Colombian national soccer team and drug king-pin Pablo Escobar; it is...
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Boot Tasting
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As I was getting home from work last week, I caught the tail end of a message from the school nurse . . . something about my son Ian being b...
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Sometimes It Pays Not To Put Your Balls Back in Their Proper Place
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Stacy needed my crate of assorted balls for a philosophy class activity, and she came to my classroom to remind me (but she could not bring ...
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Victory?
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My adult soccer team improved its record to 3-0 the other night, and once again we beat a team that was younger, more fit, and more skilled ...
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The Paper Heart
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Last week, a large wasp found its way into my classroom and the students had the usual reactions-- panic, terror, and the rapid fluttering o...
When is the Last Time You Felt the Ionian Enchantment?
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Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw's new book Why does E=mc 2 (and why should we care?) comes close to achieving their goal . . . making you f...
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Years Later, The Truth Comes out
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While we were drinking beers at the local Hooters, my friend and colleague Stacy made a confession: her first year she asked me for a clever...
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Just Trying To Live My Life (Dave Style)
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So I'm just living my life, stealing some printer paper from the boss's office and printing some stuff that I need to print, and lea...
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If You Think It, It Will Come
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Some of the little girls we know are fascinated by the baby-making process . . . one girl gave our boys a basic tutorial on the birds-and...
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I Enter A New Age Bracket
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In the past, I would occasionally learn that a student had a crush on me-- and this information would be enormously flattering to me: the fa...
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Terry Has Talent . . . I Do Not
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Rumor has it that my friend Terry can recognize any song after only listening to a few notes (I do not have this ability although I did reco...
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Can Someone Explain This?
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So if everyone is inside catching up with their TIVO and playing XBox and poking around on Facebook-- because we are addicted to technology...
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God is Rooting For Us
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My adult league soccer team rolls on, despite our age and infirmity; we won 1-0 Wednesday night against a team that was definitely half our ...
Daddy Needs a New Pair of Shoes, So Keep on Burning Those Fossil Fuels!
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I am rooting for global warming, because the government can't prop up housing prices forever, and when several million people in New Yor...
An Alternative Use For a Hand Dryer
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Camping confession: I didn't shower during my camping trip last weekend, but it was pretty humid and despite changing underwear several ...
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Chastity is Hard to Define to a Five Year Old
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Jenny Jump State Park is named after a colonial girl who was being chased by Lenni Lenape Indians and when they finally cornered her at the ...
Hang Around Me And You Might Lose an Eye
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I couldn't find my hatchet while we were breaking down our campsite, so I had to figure out some other way to pry the tent stakes from ...
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The Coming Years Are Going To Be Trouble
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I was known as "The Poor Man's Galileo" in college for my generally idiotic hypotheses, but perhaps my son will not be as ersa...
I Am The Grim Reaper
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There is nothing worse than telling a kid they didn't make the eighth grade soccer team (except being told you didn't make the eight...
And That Makes It All Worthwhile
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I am playing in an adult soccer league in North Brunswick this fall, and we played our first game on Wednesday night and defeated last year&...
Some People Just Don't Appreciate Magic
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At work, I tend to lose things and then spend lots of time looking for these things that I've lost (your tax dollars at work!) and my u...
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The Recognitions: 956 Dave: 595
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It's official: The Recognitions , a dense novel by William Gaddis, has defeated me; I put up a valiant effort and nearly reached the 600...
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Again, Me with the Smrts!
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I am on a roll with correct answers . . . two weeks ago I named the country with the highest ranked education system , and Saturday night (a...
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Where Men Win Glory: Jalalabad, Not Dallas
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Jon Krakauer's new book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman tells more than the story of a free-thinking, hard-hitting stro...
These Modern Times Are Complex
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Sometimes-- when we have a sink full of dirty dishes-- I open the dishwasher, in order to load it up, and then start washing all the dishes ...
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Two Boys on Bikes: You Know Where This is Headed
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I couldn't have been prouder than I was last week when my youngest son mastered the two-wheeler and the three of us went biking through ...
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I Wisely Keep My Mouth Shut
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On the first day of first grade, a boy made fun of my son Alex . . . he called his lip-balm "lipstick" and that evening Alex asked...
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I Am So Smart! Or At Least I Was For One Brief Shining Moment . . .
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During our inspirational start-of-the-school-year workshop, which took place in a dark, damp, sweltering room stuffed with English teachers,...
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This Snake IS a Plane
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Saturday morning we snaked our way along the Northeast Corridor and under the Hudson River and then North and West on the Blue Line in or...
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Cop? Cop. Cop? Cop? Can? Can. Can? Can.
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The boys and I were fishing at the river, and we saw a guy with an impressive rig setting up along the bank, and I asked him what he was fis...
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Bonus Post at G:TB: Yes, Even You Can Attain the New Cool
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If you've got some time to kill and feel like "reading" a visual essay (it's a bunch of YouTube clips and pictures flimsil...
What Have the Romans Done For Us?
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts , by Australian critic Clive James, is a comprehensive guide to art, politi...
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Feeling Happy? Watch This.
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Robert Greenwald's documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is depressing in such a globally mind-blowing way that it almost evo...
Late Start
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I wish Sentence of Dave covered my entire life because it's gotten to the point where if I can't search and find an incident on the...
Beach Reading?
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I ambitiously packed two weighty tomes for our week long trip to the beach: The Recognitions by William Gaddis, which-- though I've re...
First Things First
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The last night of our beach vacation, we took the kids on a ghost crab hunt, and before we went I told them a spooky tale to set the mood . ...
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Just When I Thought It Was Safe . . .
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Just when I thought it was safe to go to the beach . . . safe to sit down and read my book or chat with other adults or skim-board a bit or ...
A Hard Habit to Break
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One of the purposes of this blog is to foster and promote human rights across the globe, and so I must implore any of my readers that are wi...
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