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How come when a guy writes its when he really means it’s it gets blamed on his high school English teacher, even if the guy dropped out in 1974? As though he hasn’t encountered 38,263 uses of it’s/its in in the intervening  years and couldn’t once have said, “Eh, that’s weird. Two different its. Wonder [...]

It’s easy enough to get down on the 21st century and think about how much better it might have been in the past. However, a few pages of the right history book can quickly change your mind. As I always say each time I sit down in the dentist’s chair, “It could be worse. I [...]

So I saw the Coinstar machine at the grocery and my first response, as usual, was, “Who the hell puts change into a machine that takes 15% just for counting it?” I guess if you were an illegal immigrant and couldn’t open a  bank account then it might make sense, but other than that it doesn’t show great financial [...]

There’s not much I love more than a good ethical dilemma. They force you to balance the brutality of logic with our innate human emotions. So the question of whether it’s ethical to make a cruise ship port-of-call in Haiti while hundreds of thousands are suffering has kept me thinking off and on all week. (Article HERE.)
Here’s my take on [...]

I’m sure I’ve said the same thing fifteen times before, in various ways.
A nice and mostly balanced interpretation of what the voting in Massachusetts means for Obama over at the New York Times. However, it reinforces in my mind how difficult it is to be a consistent politician in this country because of the contradictory positions held by most [...]

This is me being lazy: taking posts that I never finished and dropping the rough draft on my blog just to have an “update.” Whatever works.
It might be starting to seem more like a crush than a mild obsession with a modern writer, but damn I’m in awe of Roberto Bolaño. First I sent off [...]

Just a few random snow days thoughts. And not just regular snow days but the rare “night before” snow days—Thursday’s called at 9:00 p.m., Friday’s at 3:00 p.m. I should start a new blog entry category called “Now why did I agree to be a teacher…?” That way when I’m about to lose it on [...]

Again I should start by pointing out how fully unqualified I am to discuss Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise. My experience with music lasts all day every day (if possible), but my formal knowledge is slim and my knowledge of classical music doesn’t go much beyond Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, and Peter and the Wolf (since [...]