About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity.
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
From a recent New Yorker story on Freudian psychoanalysis in China: I asked what problems he sees most often among his patients. He answered, “If a grandfather,...
I’m in my car, stopped at a red light, on the phone. Right outside my passenger door is a sixth grader in a public school uniform, eating his after-school...
The original snap was: #thingsfatpeoplehatedoing. Here are some snaps back – one-liner’s, survey results – that caught my eye: Jasmine Lewis: going to the...
Yesterday I spent some time thinking about the differences between grifters and leaders and how the public stage beckons and rewards them both. So much so that,...
My parents just sent me a story in the Washington Post by Anne Kornblut that focuses on the personal slights and favors that underpin so much of our politics. I...
Bruce Sterling knows his nerds, outsiders in real life who are insiders online, alternately diffident and insolent. In his interesting assessment of the Wikilea...
Three questions for the Christian constituents of the senators who voted against the DREAM Act yesterday: Was the Son of God born in a barn, among the animals a...
There were well-publicized protests in select California cities after President Obama was elected and Prop 8 was passed. Some of that anger was fueled by the ru...
Jane: What are you listening to? Jack: x Jane: I was listening to x three years ago. I’m so happy x is popular now. Jack: OK. Let’s talk about you.
Charles Clover has written a brilliant, daring report on terrorists in Russia who are inspired by racist nationalism and financed by officials of the Russian st...
From Burkhard Bilger’s savvy report on fermentation and underground food culture in the U.S., sadly available only as an abstract to non-subscribers: Mode...
An anecdote that must be shared: Their favorite activity, however, seems to be holding joint press conferences. At one of their most memorable appearances toget...
When I first read about the process by which the New York Times sorted out what leaked documents they would publish and how, I thought: “Wow, it must have...
Kentaro Tomaya on why high technology, in and of itself, doesn’t solve the problems that lead to poverty: Does a hundred dollars for a computer make sense...
Apparently, I’m a bleeding heart. Twice in two days I’ve sat through tear-jerkers; one about charter schools in New York City and a second about a U...
A striking parallel from Peter Beste’s celebrated series on Norwegian Black Metal bands and Houston rappers: Archetypes of alienation.
Meet Margaret Winkler, aka MJ Winkler. Since this was [a] male-dominated industry, Peggy reasoned that she should avoid any indication of a female connection to...
Yesterday, I was reading through a blog post that claims Nicki Minaj has undergone surgery to change her appearance and was previously a lesbian. The claim was ...
Josh Marshall is right to view California’s failed effort to legalize marijuana in U.S.-centric terms and find it wanting. But when viewed from the perspe...