Sperm Are From Men, Eggs Are From Women: The Real Reason Men And Women Are Different, By Joe Quirk ( Read more... )

dear all knowing friends list (a la nine),

i know there are one or two books that could be considered the definitive american history book. i know there's a people's history by zinn but i'm actually looking for the more standard definitive one, you know, the one a right winger could conceivably read without going into a fit of apoplectic rage, ( Read more... )

i ended up getting futurama season 3. HA! HA HA! i am teh sux0r, indeed.

the girl used my coupon instead, getting the johns hopkins guide to literary theory. she saved $30 on it which we figured was really getting good mileage out of a coupon.

am now reading harry potter and the goblet of fire at my apartment and rereading hardboiled egg and the ( Read more... )

thank you to everyone who participated in the Boss Michael Around post!

i went to borders shortly after i made the post so of course i didn't actually follow what any of you said but i'm going back TODAY to use the other coupon i acquired when i inexplicably bought carpe jugulum to my shame and private joy the other day. instead yesterday i got ( Read more... )

sort of.

except not really. but it'll provide the illusion of participatory decision making, which is really the important thing in today's society.

Poll consume! consume! consume!of course for the purposes of my coupon-driven consumption today it'll probably be too late but oh ho, i've got two coupons and i'll probably use the other sometime before the 24th, so don't let that ( Read more... )

WHERE I’M LIKELY TO FIND IT: short story by haruki murakami available in full courtesy of the new yorker (link courtesy of passenger86)

if you haven't read any murakami this is a good sort of intro into his style. if you dig it, dig on south of the border, west of the sun and sputnik sweetheart my two favorites. or if you dug his style but figure your tastes ( Read more... )

Sisyphus as Social Democrat

J. Bradford DeLong
From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Richard Parker. : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, 820 pp. $35.00 ( Read more... )

please don't suck. please be excellent and awesome and make douglas adams proud. please be cool and froody and please don't be dumbed down for the sake of anticipated american audiences that inexplicably haven't read the increasingly inaccurately named hitchhiker's trilogy, please really know where your towel is. please make all the geeky fanboys ( Read more... )

new reading list

i was initially just looking for zinn's terrorism and war pamphlet, but in addition i really want to take a look at this one about corporate media, this one about creating a new American economic model and nader's cutting corporate welfare. vooooon ( Read more... )

okay, so i just gave up and took the futon off the frame and bent the frame properly, then put the futon back on. woo, i'd better call home and check and make sure my stanford diploma didn't burst into flames a few minutes ago ( Read more... )