Aristotle said there is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Lou Reed was more madman...
BlaiseP
BlaiseP is the pseudonym of a peripatetic software contractor whose worldly goods can fit into an elderly Isuzu Rodeo. Bitter and recondite, he favors the long view of life, the chords of Steely Dan and Umphrey's McGee, the writings of William Vollman and Thomas Pynchon, the taste of red ale and his own gumbo.
Having escaped after serving seven years of a lifetime sentence to confinement in hotel rooms, he currently resides in the wilds of Eau Claire County and contemplates the intersection of mixed SRID geometries in PostGIS.
Precis: President Hassan Rouhani arrived back in Iran to a mixed reception: praise from most, but thrown...
Written largely for Glyph, an incomplete and biassed overview of jazz.
Precis: In a crucial moment of opportunity, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, extends the hand of diplomacy....
The College Republican National Committee has published a rueful assessment of the GOP, commencing with the pull...
The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial lies at a curve in the Moselle River as it winds...
“In anarchy, there is no automatic harmony.” Kenneth Waltz wrote unpleasant truths about the world and lived...
Somewhere in Korea, along the banks of the Yalu River, the mortal remains of Captain Emil Kapaun...
Cowering in the back of my father’s little Peugeot sedan, I watched a mob of Hausa hack...
By request, another poem by Souéloum Diagho. A few words of explanation: Diagho’s poems contain words with...
The poet Souéloum Diagho is from Tessalit in the North of Mali. His father is Tamashek, his...
Valve Corporation, a video game maker based in Bellevue Washington, has rejected Windows 8 and is now...
A man lives in his wife’s tent: a house is a grave. -Tuareg proverb Précis: as the...
Precis: While no two wars ought to be compared to each other, the latest flare-up in Mali...
Egypt’s Islamists have long prayed for a constitution around which to build their Muslim paradise. Now they...
This post is in large measure a summary of yesterday’s discussion hosted by Tamara Cofman Wittes, Director...
The NRA has gone mute: they’ve just cancelled their big NRA Country concert, to have been headlined...
Precis: Egypt’s new constitution is a contradictory mess. Mohamed Morsi has made an autocratic botch of his...
Precis: Markets arise from competition. Antitrust law arises from the need for competition. Intellectual Property laws ought...
With the death of Jacques Barzun passes away a paragon of human intellect and a great friend...
