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November 2013

November 13, 2013

“Why Should Thousands of Prisoners Die Behind Bars for Nonviolent Crimes?”: Liliana Segura

at The Nation: This past August, the Lafayette-based IND Monthly published a story about a...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

“Hounding Whistleblowers Is Wrong”: David Cay Johnston

in Newsweek: ...I think Keller, my former boss, missed the underlying issue: Why assume that...

October 19, 2013

Remaking Stephen King Flicks

I'm surprisingly convinced by some of the choices and judgments on this list. The first...

October 17, 2013

From Vasily Grossman, “Life and Fate”

tr. Robert Chandler: Viktor's hat fell to the ground. People were probably looking at them....

October 11, 2013

“The Specificities of Friendship”: Wesley Hill

asks for your help: ...There’s a certain irony, of course, about pursuing friendship, since, as...

October 11, 2013

“Can Parents Accused of Neglect Redeem One Another?”

from Al-Jazeera America: ...On the last Wednesday in July, Wick showed up at CWOP, a...

October 11, 2013

“The Shame of Our Prisons”

hard but necessary reading: As recently as five years ago, American corrections officials almost uniformly...

October 07, 2013

Working-Class Trust, Monetized Mug Shots, The Bible and Other Children’s Books

What I'm reading. First off, this post from David Lapp is relevant to my review...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Feast of Sts Cosmas and Damien

who were brothers, and doctors who treated poor patients without requiring payment. This is something...

September 21, 2013

What Does Accepting or Valuing Failure Really Look Like?

I didn't find the political stuff here illuminating, but the basic point is sound: In...

September 21, 2013

A Different Way to Make Socca!

This is more complicated than the way I do it but it looks faboo, doesn't...

September 20, 2013

“Broke and Alone”: I review Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

at The American Conservative: Because most of the traditional pathways to adulthood—marriage, economic independence, stable...

September 17, 2013

Our Frank and Open/Deep Complications

They get me nowhere, they just bring me down so.... Alan Jacobs is right about...

September 12, 2013

From Jennifer M. Silva, “Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty”

In an era of short-term flexibility, constant flux, and hollow institutions, the transition to adulthood...

September 04, 2013

Convention of Ex-Slaves in 1916

Just fascinating, via Ghosts of DC.

August 2013

August 30, 2013

“I Want a Fur Coat and a Villa and a Cat”

new book on 20th-c changes in English marriage ideals pushes back against my Weekly Standard...

August 23, 2013

“To Achieve Existential Fulfillment, Brokers Must Spurn Webinars”

"...and instead come to grips with their insignificance, Smith said." Yes.

August 19, 2013

From Robert Stone, “Children of Light”

She let her song rise again and spread out her arms. In Louisiana the old...

August 15, 2013

“Drawing Down: How to Roll Back Police Militarization in America”: Radley Balko

writes: ...Today in America, SWAT teams are deployed about 100 to 150 times per day,...

August 15, 2013

“The Far Menace”: A glorious day in newspaper history

The day they switched the captions by mistake. Probably via Jesse Walker.

August 12, 2013

“Ages of Revolution: How Old Were They on July 4, 1776?”

This is super-neat. Probably via Jesse Walker.

August 09, 2013

Celeb Chef Repaints Pink Hotel Different Shade of Pink

BBC reports! A 15th Century hotel owned by the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has...

August 09, 2013

“We Need a Whistleblower Prize”: Radley Balko

at HuffPo: ...High-level whistleblowers know when they come forward that they're sacrificing their national security...

August 08, 2013

How To Improve Mainstream Media Coverage of Abortion?

LiveAction asks the right questions, as does GetReligion.

August 06, 2013

Blogging “A Secular Age”

Camassia, whom many readers of my old blog may remember, is back! She's blogging her...

August 01, 2013

“What We Taught Children to Do to Other Children”

Indiegogo site raising money for Fix My Kid, a documentary on the abuses of the...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

“Put money in thy purse!” –Shakespeare.*

While I haven’t gotten all the way through Pride and Prejudice, I am far enough to...

July 27, 2013

Two Very Different Links About Prison

First of all, America's prison population is finally falling. Via Jesse Walker, I think. Second,...

July 27, 2013

From Marilynne Robinson, “Home”

Those grown children had, almost all of them, bent their heads over whatever work she...

July 25, 2013

“Unambitious Loser with Happy, Fulfilling Life Still Lives in Hometown”: The Onion

reports: CAMDEN, ME—Longtime acquaintances confirmed to reporters this week that local man Michael Husmer, an...