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Destroying Public Education in California 7 Aug 2009 | 10:58 am
So let's say you're in charge of one of the most successful university systems in the country. Your state is in a budget crisis, held hostage by a small but strategically vocal minority that are so ag...
Finally back! 24 Jun 2009 | 06:38 am
I went to visit my parents for a week to attend my nephew's high school graduation and to be exploited for free child care. For some reason, the entire week I could not access Blogger. I could access ...
Things that make you feel old. 16 Jun 2009 | 06:08 am
My nephew is graduating from high school on Wednesday.
My relationship with illicit substances. 12 Jun 2009 | 03:53 am
I don't drink coffee every day. One cup can work if I'm not too exhausted (I have been known to drink it like warm milk and feel like a nap), two cups make me jittery but awake for a few hours, three ...
Culture Clash 12 Jun 2009 | 03:48 am
One giant organization (The United States) attempts to reform the insular organizational culture of another (GM).: But it will be up to the federal government, which will own a majority of General Mo...
Stay away, Belle 10 Jun 2009 | 04:43 am
This is exactly like the type of movie that would have appealed to my 20 year old self, yet I have the vague feeling that I should stay away from its twee sense of superiority: Verona’s question may ...
Joyce Carol Oates on Salinger's Love Letters 8 Jun 2009 | 07:02 pm
And on intimacy in the public sphere, in general: The Hawthornes' devotion to each other, and to the idealized image of each other they presented to the world, would seem to be a powerful rebuke of t...
the ups and downs of married life 8 Jun 2009 | 04:47 pm
If you didn't cry (or sob uncontrollably, in my case) at the wordless montage of a happy marriage punctuated by sadness and unfulfilled promises set to Michael Giacchino's song "Married Life" in Up, y...
sociability index 6 Jun 2009 | 06:56 am
Progress: last night I went to a dinner party hosted by a friend in which I made more friends. And it'll be a semi-regular thing, because she wants to start up a semi-weekly support group for her frie...
Cheapness Studies, the blog 5 Jun 2009 | 09:26 am
A new interdisciplinary blog by me, Miss Self-Important, and Phoebe Maltz! We all have introductory posts up. Because nothing conquers blog exhaustion like starting another blog. Check it out!
