Remember these from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe"? It's a sort of electronic device that generates the idea that the object it is hiding is just "somebody else's problem." Well, I'm gonna make some and sell them to the freakin' CHP. Car crashes are absolutely nobody's business but the people involved, yet people just can't drive by a ( Read more... )

Finished my paper on Democracy. Basically just talked about some articles I'd recently read, showing how we've kinda run full circle back to a form of tyranny not unlike the tyranny we escaped from 230 years ago. I was very happy to see that both Time and Harper's magazines had articles asking the American public what I've been wondering for a few ( Read more... )

Nothing worse than shutting yourself in, avoiding all social engagements and other distractions for the sake of finishing at least one of the 5 papers due, only to find yourself unable to write a damn thing. I am totally uninspired, and it's saturday, so all the usual quiet cafes will be too noisy and crowded. Almost throttled some tourist at ( Read more... )

About as useful as tits on a sneaker, as my dear friend Armen would say. But damn, are they sexy. I wish I could race one through traffic the way I once did up Madison Ave in NYC, on my Ducati Monster, but the traffic here is just too darn thick. Strange as it is, I swear, it is easier for a car to dart through traffic and avoid lights in NYC at ( Read more... )

What a great film. I thought it was just going to be about Lake Victoria, but really it's about all the people affected, both directly and indirectly, by the Nile Perch fishing industry in Mwanza, Tanzania. It was an excellent film to help prepare me for my trip, as Mwanza and Arusha are both large cities, with the sorts of problems large cities ( Read more... )