i guess i’m grateful i discovered my weirdness on my own

An excellent piece of writing about respecting the intelligence and creativity of a kid.

take that, bono

Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is disgustingly condescending, and characterizes perfectly a somewhat bygone attitude of your average American or European, assuming they even give a thought to such things as charity, or the ubiquitous starving of Africa.
Today’s world thinker is more likely to say, put your money where your mouth is. No, […]

awesome

What a lovely gift idea! And people say I’m hard to shop for.

blogstroking

Been checking the blogs of a bouncer, a lawyer and a stripper and they’re starting to sound like a finger down my throat. Gag.
I’ve read the Bouncer for about half a year now, and found the others through links along the way. They started out fresh and sharp, they told epic tales for my free-time […]

Blog Against Racism Day was yesterday

It was also AIDS Awareness Day. It was also, incidentally, December 1st. I thought it was still November.
Anyway, a day late but I had a couple thoughts on the subject. First, one of the most interesting things I read this year was an article in the NYT. It’s about a brilliant up-and-coming young econ professor […]

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