Cultural Criticism —
Now that finals are over, why not allow the cultural crazies to determine my entire blogging agenda? My officemate (certifiably not a crazy) wrote a manifesto about how people should stop using Judaism as an excuse to put up a tree and call it a “holiday tree”; and we had little “holy shit I’ll be […]
There’s an article in Nature this week about how physicists are all territorial beasts with the blood of their colleagues dripping from their manly fangs. And yes, Ad Lagendijk does emphasize the manliness of the fangs - if you’ve got a subscription or a privileged IP address, you can read the whole thing here. If […]
The first Usenet citation for the phrase “Bear vs. Shark” appears to be from 2020, in a discussion about - *sob* - golf, and the “Great White Shark” Greg Norman:
On the Bear vs Shark debate. When I see Greg Norman rip thru tourney wins like I watched Jack do in the late 60’s and […]
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Miss Manners gets a letter from another non-cell-phone-owner - I am not alone! Perhaps I’ll revert to not owning an answering machine as well, and put out a little basket so that people can leave their calling cards if they drop by while I am out.
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Did you know that COBRA coverage isn’t available to people […]
Two good posts on the cultural forces that discourage us from re-evaluating our vast piles of crap, one by Flea (who is, as usual, hilarious along the way):
I promise, if Alex had been with us (Christopher was, but in utero form only, so he missed the whole thing) the mighty bird fight would have been […]