“Ambassador Daniel Fried, the outgoing coordinator for sanctions policy, did not mention President Donald Trump or speak directly to his policies, but the State Department officials present understood his meaning when he said ‘we are[…]
“Well I’ve seen some old friends sort of die/or just turn into whatever must have been inside them/whatever all of us had then in common/we grew up/we left home/we don’t think that way no more.”[…]
“I do not have the power to make laws which forbid people to put pineapples on their pizza,” Guðni, a former history professor at the University of Iceland, wrote. “I am glad I do not[…]
“Do you worry that you’re not liked/How long till you break/You’re happy cause you smile/But how much can you fake?” -Our Lady Peace, “Superman’s Dead” from Clumsy I have always loved the iconography of Superman’s[…]
I recently wrote a piece for an evolving collection on bad ideas in writing about the concept of the digital native. It bugs me– and not just because of the politics of the word native,[…]
“So me put in/work, work, work, work, work work” -Rihanna, “Work” I am exhausted today from chores, grading, class prep and bathing two dogs, but I want to share a quick story. I like what[…]
It’s day 23, and ironically my childhood was marked in many ways by the 23s I wore on pretty much everything. I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. In fact if you were one of[…]
One of the members of my PhD committee, Bill Hart-Davidson, was the guy who I turned to when I needed a voice of calm reason during my dissertation writing process. He always managed to see[…]
Brother, did you forget your name? -Zack de la Rocha, Rage Against the Machine, “Freedom” My senior thesis, way back in the free-wheeling days of the year 2000, when I was still just a little[…]
Get up, come on get down with the sickness Get up, come on get down with the sickness Get up, come on get down with the sickness -Distrurbed, “Down with the Sickness” from The Sickness[…]
