This is priceless. I just finished taking a course in Third World history that focused on how wealthy nations exploit the resources and cheap labor of poorer, developing nations. Interesting class, lot of food for thought, but right now it mainly makes me think that this article in the New York Times is hysterical and […]
I’ve been on a bit of a nostalgia-fest watching the first two seasons of The Greatest American Hero on DVD. Fuller reviews will be posted here and/or at the LogBook some time soon, but as I was enjoying the show’s goofy charm, I also realized I do not have nearly enough suspension of disbelief to […]
I get into such terrible habits when a major deadline looms, especially when writing is involved. Books, articles, and other notes pile up on the desk, a small maze of books forms near my chair, and all sorts of little things like laundry start stacking up. I cleared a major deadline this past weekend, and […]
I’m pretty sure Eddie Murphy did this already back on Saturday Night Live: A black family learns what it’s like to be white while a white family becomes black in the six-part documentary series “Black.White,” scheduled for broadcast on the FX cable network in March. Makeup temporarily transforms the two families for the series developed […]
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has been tracking some press coverage of the legal problems of Republican Congressmen such as Tom DeLay and Duke Cunningham, along with the associated scandals. One thing he has pointed out is that the media seems to be bending over backwards to depict the story as being part of […]
Related to the last post – I’m sitting at my desk with an open can of Coke in each hand, making sure that every one of the four on my desk are empty. I go upstairs to throw out the cans and see the Holy Ghost newsletter on the table. Then I realize the annual […]
Meir Ribalow, who taught most of the screenwriting/film classes I took at Fordham, once told me, “I teach for free. They pay me for the grading.” The man speaks truth.
ABC News reports tonight that the 9/11 Public Discourse Project Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations has handed failing grades to the U.S. government on many points of its attempts to increase the nation’s security and stabilize other parts of the world. On page 3 of that document, however, I found this interesting: Provide adequate […]
Louis Menand has written and edited a number of books about the pragmatist philosophers. I use his anthology Pragmatism: A Reader in my American Thinkers courses. Thanks to a post by Lore Sjoberg at Slumbering Lungfish, I found this terrific book review Menand has written about a book that sounds fascinating: Philip Tetlock’s Expert Political […]
So tonight on Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Goran and Eames are trying to figure out who dropped a soda machine on a guy. They find a suspect, and then their attention turns to the suspect’s psychiatrist. The doctor was a military reservist who had served at Guantanamo Bay helping with the interrogations, and was […]