Loyalty points

Sometime soon, a post on meritocracy, aristocracy, and the Stuyvesant cheating scandal. Till then: A few days ago was a real festival of che...

Yom sans kippa

In what appears to be an effort to alienate the much-discussed but let's face it not-so-populous community of European Jews who vote f...

"They keep it fresh"

Back in 2005 (!), I was shocked to learn that Japanese hair-straightening refers to the process by which ethnically Japanese women straight...

If I were dictator of NJ Transit, I would:

-Lower the prices by so very, very, much. -Insist on a week-long orientation in public transit, during which commuters ride the NYC subways ...

"[T]hey really cut out a lot of the hard work, time and sweat that I put into D.J.’ing."

I now have exactly the cold I should have seen coming given my invincible approach to public transportation (deciding hand sanitizer is all...

Premature aging UPDATED

Elizabeth Nolan Brown has an interesting new blog called " This Is 30 ," which thus far consists of celebrity photos of what 30-ye...

Guilty as (over-)charged

Long, long ago, when I was a young'un, a recent college grad and newish grad student filled with energy and dreams, I wrote somewhat di...

Towards a tip-jar economy

The New York Times, which itself  offers unpaid internships , calls out unpaid internships, and questions whether the fashion industry can c...

A feminist case for teachers' unions

The Internet is  split over whether liberals/progressives should support the Chicago teachers’ strike. The pro-strike side has the mo...

Exciting job opportunity

A Thai restaurant in the Village is looking for a "management intern." Unpaid. "The intern will have the opportunity to learn...

Cheapness studied and inadvertently ignored

Readers may be familiar with a tag on WWPD called "cheapness studied then deliberately ignored." This refers to, say, a truly exce...

On a lighter note

Two Australian (?) women on the subway, of a certain age and in the TOWIE/Real Housewives mold. One is telling the other about a certain ...

9/11/12

View from the Village, 6th Ave.

A full day

-Pastry success: this morning's croissant did not (as far as I know) make contact with the floor . Next stage of becoming an early-morni...

The politics of YPIS

Who is it who uses the expression, "your privilege is showing"? In those words, or that message phrased otherwise? YPIS, we may im...

On having lost the capacity for embarrassment

Today, I insisted that I could totally feed and walk Bisou before leaving in the middle of the night (or so it feels like) to go on the bike...

Reports from the longest day ever

-Class itself: fun. Sorting out the mystery that is online homework: less so. A work in progress, but to be resolved, I estimate, in the nex...

The referendum on meritocracy

Watched some of last night’s DNC, fell asleep post-Michelle (who had just proven herself capable of being president as well as supermodel-in...

Profundity of the day

A phenomenon not unlike the  blonde brunette : defining "curly" hair as what happens when a woman with fine, straight hair  uses b...

The workaday world

The commute continues to happen, with the new glitch that post-Labor Day, the line at the croissant-and-coffee establishment has about as ma...

"[T]he most important American value of all"

I've watched some of the RNC, and can make the following observations: -The guiding principle of the speeches appeared to be  scrappines...