Oh, a theme:

Yale: Lux et Veritas

Harvard: Veritas

Union: Unitas, Veritas, Caritas

Clearly, I can't leave things simple!

I've sent word officially, and I'm going to Union next fall ( Read more... )

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This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

I reread A Christmas Carol on the train from Boston to Atlanta. It's a much weirder book than I remembered, every note crystal clear, yet oddly ( Read more... )

I've already posted this story to facebook, but it's so beautiful and strange I want to spread it everywhere.

It concerns a 42-year-old woman in Los Angeles with a perfect episodic memory. Every story in her life, every emotion she's ever felt, is locked perfectly in her mind, right down to its tiniest details.

Some of you will say "But that's ( Read more... )

Want a classic scare this week? Let Billy Graham dangle your spider self over the yawning pit of hell ( Read more... )

You know what the world really needs? Marxist sociological analysis, filtered through Durkheim, of what animals do what sorts of jobs in Richard Scarry books.

Ah, but that need has been filled! Eight years ago! The diagram at p. 222 is the key to the article ( Read more... )

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She's 106! Living in Rome! Voting for the first time since Eisenhower! I think I love her.

This post is here in part to taunt naamah, who is probably reading it at the library and can't hear the video. But mostly it's because this is just off-the-charts adorable!

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So I go to the bookstore to pick up the texts for a class I'm taking on the interpretation of Genesis. Among our interpreters is Ramban. The set edition was a big, serviceable hardcover, but I suspected there would be lots of editions of a guy like Ramban with various agendas. I figured I'd look into a few other versions, just to see what was ( Read more... )

I'm just on Season 3 of The Wire now . . . I know, I know . . . but I noticed that Councilman Carcetti was really creeping me out, and not just because of the actually-slimy things he does. I think I get it now:


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