This was a nice place to drink. It was also the most un-Moscow place I visited in the city (interior of a pirate ship, anyone?!).

Interesting piece in Slate about the United Nations Detention Center. Prison psychology is interesting enough, but substitute lumpy and well-educated old men who have killed too many people, it seems, to comprehend it themselves, give them comfortable accommodations, and you get... Indicted War Criminal Volleyball ( Read more... )

There's a great new piece by Arnold Kling on health insurance.

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Oh, and an amusing photo from cyclejones:
Apparently some people actually took this road.Sufjan Stevens is the current musical obsession on my playlist. (The current track is the most beautiful song I've ever heard about a serial killer.) Download it, buy it, steal it ( Read more... )

For some reason LJ won't allow me to add "opposing the deification of majority rule" to my interests list.
Oh well.
I should be reading, in any event.

application: verb, i.t., to spend all one's time filling out applications while on break or vacation purportedly intended for relaxation purposes, instead used to write self-promotional essays, buff resumés, and write emails to recommenders.

Example: "I plan to spend a week applicationing after finals. Hot damn."
see also: application packages ( ( Read more... )

Head above water. Still living in massive uncertainty. Trying to enjoy it; it is the default state of life.

It's clementine season, which does help. Time to buy a crateful and fill out applications for graduate school in California. Mm.

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So they have thought about it.
A Cultural Hedonic Framework for Increasing the Consumption of ( Read more... )

I've taken a number of academic/professional gambles in the past month, large and small, and knowing that they'll all be settled before the end of December makes me ...anxious? excited ( Read more... )

This is the best piece of cheap plastic kipple I've seen in ages!I think one of them should go on that unoccupied little gargoyle platform above the Cross Campus entrance to Calhoun. Just sayin ( Read more... )

They've revived the Soviet-era satire-commentary outlet Krokodil. Just an interesting article, especially to hear the editor describe 'face control, glossy magazines, and Ramzan Kadyrov' as 'some of the new ills facing Russian society ( Read more... )

Need To Breed Given Priority

Half-billion-dollar-equivalent appropriations for... animal breeding ( Read more... )