March 2019 – Page 2

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

I’m reminded of the style Presteign of Presteign in The Stars My Destination (1957) 📚 .

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

Border Walls are Symbols of Failure: Every border wall has a particular historical context behind its creation. Yet they all announce the same message to the wo...

parentheses

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

I have one of my browsers set to fu no cookies none zip zilch ever mode, and it’s pretty amazing how many sites simply do not work now.

drink/impulses/parentheses

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

A couple of pages later in Chronogram, what appears to be a lovely little cocktail made with a pine shrub and bitters: The Evergreen. Since there is no citrus i...

learning

Hi-Phi Nation: a Philosophy Podcast

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

The February 2019 dead tree edition of Chronogram, a local magazine here in the Hudson Valley of New York, had a brief interview with Barry Lam of Vassar Colleg...

family/parentheses

Puppies

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

We are watching some puppies for the Guiding Eyes this week. They are cute and sleeping on my foot right now, but make a persuasive argument for having a tile f...

impulses

Respect

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

One of my favorite things about the Internet is discovering kindred minds, often in unexpected places. Cate Huston writes in Why you can’t manage humans like th...

impulses

Call a Spade a Spade

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by William Cox

[S]cholar Edward Baptist (Cornell) has provided new terms with which to speak about slavery. In his 2014 book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Maki...

impulses

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by William Cox

Maybe challenges to the status quo persist for millennia without changing the system because they aren’t actually a threat.

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RE/Search

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by Will Cox

I’ve been browsing around the Internet while sitting in this meeting that doesn’t require my attention, and became curious about whether RE/Search i...

impulses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jared Newman over at Fast Company noticed that some people think “cord-cutting” —cancelling your cable or satellite TV subscription— is a bad idea. You kn...

impulses/learning

Revisions Needed

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Anonymous I came across, by way of a ...

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Lovely talk with Darina Allen of the Ballymaloe Cookery School. Cheap food is a myth.

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The Consumer Wins?

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

BBC Business Daily discusses 21st Century Monopolies with the Jonathan Tepper, author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, and so...

parentheses/poem

The Empty Illusions of Advertising

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

I love the serendipity of an unexpected find when looking for something else. Today I found “Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money” (1978) by Jo...

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Even accountants and lawyers need patrons. The Idler writes: It just seems so unfair. I feel like saying to my children: “Study accountancy, become a lawyer, go...

economics/impulses/parentheses/Work

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jobs have become acts of charity for corporations. Sarah Kendzior, 2015

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

How did we end up with this cult of Celebrity, that we permit anything done in its name?

impulses/parentheses/poem

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Look outside your window. Take off your blinders. See.

impulses/parentheses

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Darwin Among the Machines (1863) We take it that when the state of things shall have arrived which we have been above attempting to describe, man will have beco...