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The more things change… 27 Aug 2013 | 07:11 am
By Thoreau I’m reading a biography of the great physicist Albert Michelson. I’ve heard a lot of things about how different academia was back then, and certainly there are aspects that were completel...
Better than I can say it 25 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
By Thoreau This article on public performances of “supporting the troops” says it far better than I can. Go read it.
A More Convenient Truth 25 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Hey, remember this? I sure do. It’s not quite a year since my partial glossectomy, but it’s a little more than a year since my initial diagnosis, and the critical mass of recent good news is worth men...
Think outside the culturally-sensitive box (cont.) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
By Thoreau I forgot to add a link to this article about how Gitmo detainees on hunger strike were only force-fed between sunset and sunrise during Ramadan, to comply with religious restrictions. You...
Think outside the gender-appropriate cell block (cont.) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:50 am
By Thoreau I said in my previous post that I completely agree with Jim that the decent thing to do is to refer to the person formerly known as “Pfc. Bradley Manning” with female pronouns and the firs...
Think outside the gender-appropriate cell block 24 Aug 2013 | 09:11 am
By Thoreau I agree with Jim that referring to Pfc. Manning as “she” and “Chelsea” is the decent thing to do. The conversation that Chelsea Manning has started is an important one for this country, a...
The truth is somewhere in the middle 24 Aug 2013 | 05:55 am
By Thoreau I’ve been rewatching X-Files. There are Monster of the Week episodes that I like, and there are alien conspiracy episodes that I like, but my favorite genre is actually neither of those. ...
Jim, there’s room for you in my class… 23 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
By Thoreau Random walks turn out to be a really hard topic. No, I’m not talking about generating functions and the distinction between ensemble averaging and time averaging. I’m talking about “What...
They can be fools, they don’t know why, can’t their ba-la-loon stay up in a perfectly windy sky 23 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
By Thoreau Could impeachment be near? Oh, sweet, sweet 90’s nostalgia. Can we bring Craig Kilborn out of retirement to head up the Daily Show while we’re at it? Can we get another season of X-Files...
Why Look Here? The Jerk Is In Your Hands. 23 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
Let’s talk about this for a second, which came up as part of the new service Chelsea Manning is performing for her country: eh, he has a penis. Too pc for me [to refer to Chelsea Manning by the prono...
