May 4, 2009
Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. … Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.
Milton Glaeser
May 4, 2009

The case for torture seems unimpeachable. http://impeachbybee.org

May 1, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: George Scialabba working on a new, more topical book project. Pitching to publishers now.

May 1, 2009

zia mccabe sure knows how to dance

May 1, 2009

Also dreamt a blogger convention in DC; city was plastered with competing ads for Ezra and MattY until they held a joint press conference

May 1, 2009

Holy shit my brain is weird: I dreamt an incredibly-detailed and, it turns out, accurate Wikipedia article and a press conference transcript

Apr 29, 2009
I have never seen the aftermath of a hostile oral exam by Krugman or Pearlstein. I have seen the aftermath of a hostile oral exam by Summers: the candidate hid under the desk, whimpered, and would not come out until coaxed out by pizza and his significant other brought by taxicab from 30 blocks away…
Brad DeLong
Apr 28, 2009
There’s a cello in your house now.
Rocket Science
Apr 28, 2009
Just tell her that I’m done with masturbation and I’m ready to show her.
Rocket Science
Apr 28, 2009

Currently enjoying Clem Snide’s _The Ghost of Fashion_: http://books.theinfo.org/go/B000W01JOO

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