Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--I'm an outsider when it comes to matters Catholic (though I did get the Ad Altere Dei medal for studying the dogma when I was a Boy Scout), so all…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I'm still picking at parts of Summer of Long Knives. Some of it feels necessary, but a good deal of it is neurosis. It's usually at this point that I become convinced…
The Tricky Semiotics of Tom and Sheldon
It's time once again to do a close reading. Today's subject, the email sent by Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon, two state senators who claim to be proud Democrats, even…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--For those who have a hard time remembering whether Obama faked Bin Laden's death, went to Mars as a teenager, or is the love child of Malcolm X, here's this…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--One thing that's always perplexed me about the Super Bowl is the people who watch for the ads. I know a guy who works high up in advertising--he's produced stuff…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--I'm afraid none of my habits conform to those of the famous writers in this article in the Atlantic. My habits bear a closer resemblance to those of Franz Kafka, a…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I just caught Jack Klugman in the Twilight Zone episode "A Game of Pool". It reminded me of why I miss Klugman, one of the finest character actors in a generation of…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--I'm neutral to the (deleted) scene of Castle Dracula's collapse at the end of Dracula. The book ends acceptably enough as it stands. (The reason Stoker gave for cutting it was he…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Yes, this is among the things I ponder, for I am an enormous nerd: European Labor Markets: Six Key Lessons. (Short version: ditch the austerity measures, strengthen the social safety…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Two days ago, it was Richard Nixon's 100th birthday. I know. I know. I'm having a hard time coming down from it myself. Part of the reason you might have…