A Stoic Resurgence
In reading a few other blogs lately, Stoicism has come up a few times, and I’m seeing it in a few books I’ve been reading lately too. Maybe it’ll stick…
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The Lasting Influence of Rhoda Morgenstern
I just saw that the house featured in the Mary Tyler Moore show is up for sale. And I’ve been thinking about how much I was influenced by the character…
Climate Change as an Asteroid
Over the break, I got a Kindle app for my Macbook (free!) when I realized I could wait for morning to go to Wordsworth to get one of Paul Krugman’s…
On RESPs, EAPs, Grants, Gains, and Morons
Okay, maybe “moron” is a little harsh. I just finished a painful conversation with a banker. We argued for over an hour before he asked a superior and conceded that…
A Crisis of Environmentalist Faith
A couple of sentences from Matthew Altman (from “The Green Onion“) have been weighing on me for days: Ironically, environmentalism itself can become a means of advancing our own selfish…
Thanks for the Contract, Laurel!
In a cab ride yesterday, I happened to catch Laurel Broten on the radio explaining how necessary it was to first deny teachers’ right to negotiate, then impose a contract,…
On Being a Mean Mum (and Defining Bullying)
“He cut Charlie’s ear, and he’s driving him nuts! Water won’t hurt him; it will just remind him to stay off our porch.” “You know what you just cut, mom?…