Your to-read list for the day

-Flavia's post on some not-useful new-pope commentary. -Stephen Metcalf on the brand that is Brooklyn. -Robert Huber on race in Philad...

"Cursed with a plague"

At the risk of revealing that in the year 2013, I have finally discovered the internet, this will be a post about Yelp.  Yelp reviews as a g...

Middle school and the neurosis of narcissism

As I sit waiting for commenter Caryatis's mystery " suggestion  about" my "writing style" (about which I'm of co...

A good mind to write a letter

The comments left on ancient blog posts here tend to be on the furious end of the spectrum. What inspires someone to leave a comment on a po...

Food court imminent?

Mark Bittman wants ( link !) an indoor food market to go where the Fulton Fish Market once was. Not that this would much benefit me at this ...

Scattered thoughts on a rainy day

-More foot-in-mouth racial insensitivity from " Into The Gloss ." Yes, I'm the Phoebe who commented. -The memo about not dress...

How pastiness came to Palestine

Can philosophy - as opposed to blogging, or Facebook status updates - fix the Middle East? Philosopher Joseph Levine's op-ed  gives it a...