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till we all without sin, let’s stop the pulpittin’

Someone got me a subscription to Rolling Stone magazine. Two of them have shown up in my mailbox in the last two weeks. Whoever it is, thanks, I guess, but you can own up to it. Unless this is a credit card company courting me, in which case I’m not interested. The first issue I [...]

let’s make a fast plan and watch it burn to the ground

Figuring that I’d probably get soaked if I walked to the train during the torrential storm this past Saturday, I decided to drive to Central Square instead. I got soaked on the walk to the car and brought in a quarter-cup of water with me just getting the door open. The rain pounded my car [...]

now here’s a mickle truth

Again, that’s adjusted for inflation. A private college education’s share of your household income has more than doubled in the last three decades. It’s gone from about a fifth to nearly half. You can always go to a state school for cheap, but then the quality of your education hinges more on accidents of geography [...]

teach your parents well; their children’s hell will slowly go by

Twenty years ago: I’m in the basement of the Coldheart family home in Cockeysville, MD. It’s warm and sticky outside, but the furnished basement has an insulated chill to it. I’m trekking through the Tower of Babil in Final Fantasy IV (released in the states as “Final Fantasy 2″). My party’s grinding levels so I [...]

metaphysics of the world cup

New post on Overthinking It today about the metaphysics of the World Cup A game is a human’s attempt to make sense of life. It breaks down activities we recognize — competition, cooperation, success, setback — into a set of known rules. Every game has to have rules. A game without rules could not be [...]

and you treated my woman to a flake of your life

I ran into my friend Kevin Quigley at the gym on Friday. “How have you been?” I asked. “I heard you’ve been sick.” “I’ve been better, actually,” he said. “Apparently I just needed to stop taking my medicine. Ever since then, I’ve felt great.” He’d been on a shifting regimen of pills for sinusitis (and [...]

sail on, sail on, o mighty ship of state

“Professor,” people often ask, “if you hate this country so much, why do you stay here?” Man, there’s just so much wrong with that question. For one thing, I love America. I do! It’s great! America’s probably the best place in the world to be an American citizen. I certainly wouldn’t recommend trying it in [...]

london part five

When Misch and I found Barrio Central, a Mexican-themed pub in Soho, we spent the night there dancing with strangers. Late in the evening I flagged the bartender down with a fiver. “I’m from the States,” I explained. “What would you recommend that’s local to Europe?” The bartender produced two bottles. “This is Vedett,” he [...]

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