A FaceBook friend (are we really friends?) recently posted this meme. He is a conservative, I’d dare even say he is a rabid Trump supporter. That is a claim he would deny (I do not see any evidence of that…
“Reading is an infection, a burrowing into the brain: books contaminate, metaphorically, and even microbiologically.” — Jill Lepore
Defending the Shutdown
Someone on Facebook just made this argument: My response was truncated because who wants to read a lengthy political discussion, especially on Facebook? Here is the non-truncated version of my response to the post: 1. Why not? Why aren’t lives…
“In the case of an exponential creep-up, like Moore’s Law, the bend in the curve could look like a jump if you took your eye off the ball at the wrong time.” — Neal Stephenson
Polysllabic Spree: Stubborn Attachments
Cowen, Tyler. (2018). Stubborn Attachments. I read Cowen’s blog, Marginal Revolution, regularly. Although read is a misnomer. He is too busy writing and publishing for his academic career so most of his entries are curation of economics related stories: other…
Polysyllabic Spree: January 10, 2019
Cate, Martin. (2016). Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and The Cult of Tiki. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. About a week ago LEO told me about this book she found that would be great to help me plan and execute the…
Celebrating Diversity in the Mid-Term Elections
So, you’re celebrating a person’s victory based on race, sex, orientation and religion? That’s why people don’t like it. Intersectionality is the crap that people hate. Reducing someone to there immutable characteristics is absolutely immoral Those words are from…
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner