My Mother-in-Law had clipped this article from Vanity Fair for me to read. It’s about a quant programmer who works for Goldman Sachs. He got arrested and sentenced to eight years in jail for doing nothing wrong. Basically, he … Continue reading
The first place is school, according to an article in Slate: Studies show that teachers overwhelmingly discriminate against creative students, favoring their satisfier classmates who more readily follow directions and do what they’re told. I’ve long argued that schools reward … Continue reading
In case you’re wondering how on Earth Sisi won the Time Person of the Year Poll: “People feel very strongly and I’m sure there was a lot of repeat voting.” If Sisi were to grace the cover of Time Magazine, … Continue reading
Santorum is frothing again: “He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over … Continue reading
This NYTimes Article is nice for a Saturday morning read: And I sat on that beach and I wept. For myself, at 50. For my exhaustion with life. For my fear of dying like my mother, who left me so … Continue reading
All of my friends have been sending me these articles. I love the fact that, when people read about Sriracha, they immediately think of me: The case may still go to trial but city officials say they hope the company … Continue reading
This is how the girls occupy themselves when I fall asleep before bedtime:
I made this point in a private discussion the other day: I think it’s worth comparing – even though the differences are as stark as the similarities – the response to failure in Iraq in Bush’s second term with the … Continue reading
How is it that we ended up with this: Instead of this: Krampus has been a part of Central European, alpine folklore going back at least a millennium, and since the 17th-century Krampus traditionally accompanies St. Nicholas and angels … Continue reading