Happy days are here again The air is being controlled again The wall is still not built again Happy days are here again Altogether shout it now The Tweeter’s through, who can doubt it now We’re gonna pay our… Read More ›
politics
Art, Sex, Politics (Serving House Books)
In a new, provocative collection of essays, William Eaton, the author of Surviving the Twenty-First Century, shares the pleasures of questions, tastes, reading and more visual arts. That we are animals, that is as sure as ever. How savagely we… Read More ›
NRALGBTQ
One balmy spring weekend, the National Rifle Association (NRA) held in Nashville a convention to which (television told me) 70,000 people came. My son and I were visiting our nation’s capital and went to get a gelato at a… Read More ›
Snowden, Jesus
A warning to those sensible people who believe blog posts should be short, or who have become attached to Montaigbakhtinian for the one-liners: This is not a short post. Some subjects are more demanding. (And I am even ready to… Read More ›
Ditch the term pathogen
Reblogged from Zeteo: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing {Click for pdf} A short comment, published in the 11 December 2014 issue of Nature and entitled “Ditch the term pathogen,” is the most interesting, thought-provoking piece that I have ever… Read More ›
