• Required Reading (definitely though with love)

    This Independence Day it’s important for us Americans to finally get it through our thick heads that there is a fundamental, essential difference between nationalism and patriotism. And that neither of those has anything to do with hegemonic warmongering. Just… more ›

  • Biomap

    Since we’ll be losing our home in the next few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about the places I’ve called home for the past (almost) 40 years. Here’s a little map of where I hung my hat. I’ll update… more ›

  • Biomap

    Since we’ll be losing our home in the next few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about the places I’ve called home for the past (almost) 40 years. Here’s a little map of where I hung my hat. I’ll update… more ›

  • Wrong Side of the Tracks

    I was spending my otherwise unproductive afternoon buying tracks on iTunes, eating cheese and crackers, and browsing blogs that have been repeatedly recommended to me but that I rarely make the time to visit. On one such blog–Blogography–I found a… more ›

  • Wrong Side of the Tracks

    I was spending my otherwise unproductive afternoon buying tracks on iTunes, eating cheese and crackers, and browsing blogs that have been repeatedly recommended to me but that I rarely make the time to visit. On one such blog–Blogography–I found a… more ›

  • 3 Great Films

    It was the end of the world……and Claire couldn’t care less. And somewhere on a desert road from Vegas to nowhere……I’ll talk it over with Brenda. I have the right to testify in my native language…You have to do what… more ›

  • 3 Great Films

    It was the end of the world……and Claire couldn’t care less. And somewhere on a desert road from Vegas to nowhere……I’ll talk it over with Brenda. I have the right to testify in my native language…You have to do what… more ›

  • Simple Things

    It really is the simple things that make life worth living. The complicated shit only makes me mad. I’ve been spending much more time at the local YMCA. Lately I’m exercising at least five times a week, mostly there but… more ›

  • Simple Things

    It really is the simple things that make life worth living. The complicated shit only makes me mad. I’ve been spending much more time at the local YMCA. Lately I’m exercising at least five times a week, mostly there but… more ›

  • Podcast-aways

    Here are my favorite podcast subscriptions. There’s something for everyone. Well, maybe not you. Twelve Byzantine RulersThis history of the Byzantine Empire is a lecture series written and presented by Mr. Lars Brownworth who teaches history at The Stony Brook… more ›