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Every once in a great while I get a chance for what I consider to be prime people watching. Today, it was in the waiting room at a specialist I took my mother to see.[…]

If you have any friends who are politically active in either direction, you’ve probably already seen this. If you’re having trouble cutting through the careful (ha, I made a funny) rhetoric, let me translate it[…]

I love my mother. Deeply. She’s the person who has been pretty much the only support structure that was constant in my life, and before Julie she was really the only person, at the end[…]

I’ve been thinking about capitalism lately. I’m in what I call “the lean months”– June and July suck when you’re on a 9 month pay cycle, so I’ve got my “will academic for food” shingle[…]

I found this old piece on one of the blogs I deleted. Here it is, then I’m going to do it again. –OLD– Again, in no particular order. 15 songs that could be the soundtrack to[…]

I can’t bring myself to write much on tonight’s topic. Tomorrow we say goodbye to Dobson. The tumor in his head is slowly but surely killing him and he’s in such pain. This is the[…]

Yesterday I was exhausted, so I sort of phoned in my post. I wanted to revisit something from earlier this week, though: that idea of mobbing. I want to walk you through the way the[…]