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...