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November 2013

November 08, 2013

7 Quick Takes (11/8/13)

--- 1 --- This week, I got to make a donation to Against Malaria in...

November 01, 2013

7 Quick Takes (11/1/13)

Happy Feast of All Saints! --- 1 --- This week's quick takes theme...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

7 Quick Takes (10/26/13)

--- 1 --- Sorry for the one-day delay in Quick Takes. Let me make it...

October 11, 2013

6 Quick Takes (10/11/13)

--- 1 --- I'm in a storytelling mood, after yesterday's post on a three book...

October 04, 2013

7 Quick Takes (10/4/13)

--- 1 --- This week's link theme is art, so I'd like to start by...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

7 Quick Takes (9/28/13)

--- 1 --- Sometimes it's really hard to remember quite how far in the future...

September 20, 2013

7 Francis Takes (9/20/13)

As you've probably heard, Pope Francis gave a broad ranging interview to America this week,...

September 13, 2013

7 Quick Takes (9/13/13)

--- 1 --- I know it's been a while since I did Quick Takes, which...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

7 Quick Takes (8/9/13)

--- 1 --- A few weeks ago, I was visiting DC, and gosh darn it...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

7 Quick Takes (7/12/13)

--- 1 --- The world is an unaccountably delightful place. This should be enough to...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

7 Quick Takes (6/21/13)

--- 1 --- The Monsters Inc prequel comes out today, and I've been super-dubious about it...

June 14, 2013

7 Quick Takes (6/14/13)

--- 1 --- Since I've had two posts this week (and two more scheduled for...

June 07, 2013

7 Quick Takes (6/7/13)

--- 1 --- The wheels have been set in motion for this year's Ideological Turing...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

7 Quick Takes (5/31/13)

--- 1 --- This evening, at 6pm ET, I'll be on Relevant Radio for "A...

May 24, 2013

7 Quick Takes (5/24/13)

--- 1 --- I have excellent friends who know me very well. How do I...

May 17, 2013

7 Quick Takes (5/17/13)

--- 1 --- Yesterday, I was blogging about abstinence education, shame, and horrible Homeric epithets....

May 10, 2013

7 Quick Takes (5/10/13)

--- 1 --- If I kept a gratitude journal, I'd start every day's entry with...

May 03, 2013

7 Quick Takes (5/13/13)

--- 1 --- The theme for the week is technology solving problems you didn't know...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

7 Konigsburg Takes (4/26/13)

--- 1 --- E.L. Konigsburg passed away this week, so this whole sequence of Takes...

April 19, 2013

7 Quick Takes (4/19/13)

--- 1 --- Dove has another clever ad campaign that does a nice attack on...

April 05, 2013

7 Quick Takes (4/5/13)

--- 1 --- While we've been discussing ways to tweak the comment sections chez moi, regular...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

7 Quick Takes (3/28/13)

--- 1 --- Lo, a miracle has occurred. I enjoyed an article that in some...

March 22, 2013

7 Quick Takes (3/22/13)

--- 1 --- It's March! That month when people care particularly intensely about sports I...

March 15, 2013

7 Quick Takes (3/15/13)

--- 1 --- I've joined up on one of the online campaigns for Dungeons and...

March 01, 2013

7 Quick Takes (3/1/13)

--- 1 --- Sorry to have been absent! I've had a few 15 hour days,...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

7 Quick Takes (2/22/2013)

--- 1 --- Well, starting a job during crunch time for the organization plays merry...

February 15, 2013

7 Quick Takes (2/15/13)

--- 1 --- Happy day after Valentine's Day and Susan B. Anthony's birthday! There are...

February 08, 2013

7 Quick Takes (2/8/13)

--- 1 --- Sorry posting has been so scant here! I have something delightful happening...

February 01, 2013

7 Quick Takes (2/1/13)

--- 1 --- It has been a busy week for me, so lets all kick...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

7 Quick Takes (1/25/12)

--- 1 --- Via io9, I found this beautiful, unconventionally animated story of a man...