An Incomplete Analysis
Intersectionality seems a very big word for the idea that people cannot be reduced to a single component part and need to be treated as an approximation of a wh...
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A Waterfall of Thoughts
Monday morning dawned with new snow. I woke up with a hangover and a house with 16% humidity, and began simmering water to add some back to the air, and drinkin...
Women, College, and Value
You know, for every dollar a man makesa woman makes 63 cents.Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents.So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888bef...
Fresh Ears
I’m reading Nietzsche at the moment, and put on Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra (1896). No. 1 Son, who had not before heard any of it, except the ...
Let us now praise famous men
Just discarded James Agee’s book 10 pages in. The topic was interesting enough, as were the prefaces, though they were a bit too self-congratulatory and overb...
Was There Some Kind of Ceremony Today?
Today, I spent my day in front of a computer, in four hours of meetings about meetings, another few writing a script and updating a spreadsheet, and then some m...
Dear Reader
I would not have slept if I had not been up most of the previous week, but I did, willingly, after 242 pages, to prepare for today. The best laid plans, they sa...
Prepared?
A former employer spies storm clouds on the horizon and notes it is worth the exercise to review backups, disaster recovery plans, and operational resiliency. Y...
Psalm 62
1    On God alone my soul in stillness waits;  ♦from him comes my salvation.2    He alone is my rock and my salvation,  ♦my stronghold, so that ...
Breadcrumbs
Who recommended 📚The Samurai’s Garden (1994)? I requested the book from the library and started reading it because I had found the Wikipedia page topmo...
Excuses
It is not at all possible for me to make my bed today.
Cooking the Books
It is the Constitutional responsibility of the Census Bureau to count. That does NOT mean build a website then mail a letter and a postcard, or otherwise advert...
How Much Greed is Good?
Paul Graham believes a wealth tax would act as a disincentive. He’s since revised his post several times to remove some indignation. But I’m surprised Mr. G...
Graham Greene on Bullshit Jobs
“It’s a living,†she said. “It’s not a real living. All this spying. Spying on what? Secret agents discovering what everybody knows already…†...
Collateral Damage
I stopped the car in the shade next to the pile of rocks. My son, selecting rocks carefully from the pile for his flower gardens, noticed a bat there, crushed, ...
The Days Grow Short
Lily is an old cat now: fifteen years. Her littermate brother gone this past year and a half. She eats little and sleeps much. It seems an uncomfortable sleep, ...