I know everyone’s probably burned out on 9/11, but I’m curious to know how ya’ll would answer...
Month: September 2011
Last week following the Republican debate, Erik and many others decried the way Perry’s supporters yeehaw-ed Texas...
Umair Haque has an interesting post up at the Harvard Business Review asking whether Marx was in...
In July of 2001, I was in New York working on decommissioning a regional office. Shutting down...
Elvis Perkins (again). This time While You Were Sleeping off of Ash Wednesday.
The English word “republic” is taken from the Latin phrase “res publica,” a concept which embraced the...
My recollections of what I was doing on 9/11 are the recollections of someone in Colorado who was...
I didn’t find out about 9/11 until many hours after it happened. The first plane struck just...
In the interest of brevity—and in an attempt to avoid undue solipsism—I’ll keep my introductory post short....
Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, closes with a flip-book sequence of one...
I’m not entirely sure that there is anything too significant to be gleaned from this video presentation...
In the comments to my recent piece on the new babysitter legislation on its way to becoming...
The funny thing, in retrospect, was that I had actually chosen to listen to news radio before...
I thought my country was going crazy before 9/11. Turns out I was still young, and “crazy”...
At the hospitals where I did my residency in New York City, the pediatrics department had its...
R.E.M., at their rough and jammin best: Where though are the lyrics to “Fireplace” in particular? Here:...
I’m not sure if this is just serendipity at work, but just after I wrote my piece...
by E.C. Gach So by now, most of you know about Mike Lofgren’s piece in Truthout (if...
I have the unfortunate tendency to sometimes listen to rightwing radio while I drive. On morning news...
Music is like beer. Some people want Coors in the yellow can. Some people want JW Lees...
