It’s inevitable that we’d have a moment with our friend Darwinian Larry in the technology class. The Louis C.K. moment was not inevitable. Who would have guessed he would have provided a “teachable moment” about Pascal? I watched most of the Emmys at a time most TV lovers . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Scott points us to this excellent Jonah Goldberg essay on Breaking Bad. More tomorrow (maybe). . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m up to the fourth season, but I have also been watching the last half of the fifth season. Here are several thoughts, The money isn’t really about the money for hardly anybody. One of the conceits of the show is that the drug money can’t really be spent in large, visible . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t help but notice it here, notice it there, notice it everywhere. A few days ago, I read Steve Hayward, on Powerline , asking, ” So When Can We Expect Obama’s Malaise Speech? “ This does feel familiar, a sense of dread, a hopelessness. Well, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an inappropriate way to begin a post, but as soon as I began writing what I had to say, the SOFTWARE COMPANY made me update and restart, which in the time it took to maintain a means of communication, I forgot whatever it was I thought I had important to say. Luckily my natural memory . . . . Continue Reading »
Makes the smart phone look dumb. LINKED FIXED. Thanks to John. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his last comment on his own recent post on the most important of the Federalist Papers, Carl Scott asks that more attention be given to Federalist 38, which is often overlooked. I concur. And since I gave a Constitution Day lecture at Middlebury last week, and spent some time on Federalist 38, I . . . . Continue Reading »
Educational thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Fall is here, arguably the best time for listening to classical music . . . But “the season” of my Rock Songbook remains in the Spring of folk-rock, the 63’-67’ era of proto-hippie expectancy. The last post, if you missed it, gave you my favorite post-1960s folk-rock songs , the . . . . Continue Reading »
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