Hi.
In the interest of brevity—and in an attempt to avoid undue solipsism—I’ll keep my introductory post short. I graduated from the University of Iowa in May and plan on enrolling in graduate school next...
Daily Archive: September 10, 2011
A man there was in the Land of Uz
Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, closes with a flip-book sequence of one of the falling men from the World Trade Center. The order of the images are reversed, so...
TV Terror
I’m not entirely sure that there is anything too significant to be gleaned from this video presentation of a study on how terrorism is portrayed on primetime TV since 9/11- though I am sure...
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoes ski helmet mandate, language bill, and higher cell phone fines: “Not every human problem deserves a law”
In the comments to my recent piece on the new babysitter legislation on its way to becoming law in California, co-blogger Tom Van Dyke mentioned that Gov. Jerry Brown “has a righteous spark.” The...
10 Years Later
The funny thing, in retrospect, was that I had actually chosen to listen to news radio before I’d even gotten in the car that morning – something I never, ever do. I was just...
The Machinery of… whatever
I thought my country was going crazy before 9/11. Turns out I was still young, and “crazy” was one of those things I had to learn as I got older. I can work up...
Recollection
At the hospitals where I did my residency in New York City, the pediatrics department had its Grand Rounds every Tuesday morning. One of my favorite attending physicians was delivering a talk on hematopoietic...
