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You Can't Spell Toxic Without X
Extended Mix, with Appeals to Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius
Apr 3
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You Can't Spell Toxic Without X
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May 2023
On this Day in 1970 (Or, When We Gave a Damn About Mass Shootings)
53 years ago today, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young recorded “Ohio,” Neil Young’s response to the Kent State killings 18 days prior.
May 22, 2023
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Future Shock, Chesterton, Columbo
Corroding our Spotless Machines in the Light of the Utterly Reasonable Moon
May 1, 2023
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Future Shock, Chesterton, Columbo
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April 2023
Machines and Modernists: A Few Stray Thoughts on Writing for One's Organic Self
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Apr 28, 2023
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Machines and Modernists: A Few Stray Thoughts on Writing for One's Organic Self
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Echo Chambers, Common Sense: Leaving Twitter for the Gym
What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Apr 25, 2023
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Echo Chambers, Common Sense: Leaving Twitter for the Gym
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February 2023
Miscellany: John Kruk, Meatballs, Trains; Zelensky's Power Fleece
Just a few things.
Feb 20, 2023
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Miscellany: John Kruk, Meatballs, Trains; Zelensky's Power Fleece
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November 2022
A Demographer's Lament: Democrats are Losing the Working Class
Ruy Teixeira is jilted. But is he also right?
Nov 8, 2022
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A Demographer's Lament: Democrats are Losing the Working Class
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It's Still the Economy
Democrats need an economic message as the GOP doubles down on trickle-down.
Nov 3, 2022
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It's Still the Economy
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October 2022
Rejection Letters and Inside Baseball
A short read parsing rejection letters, remembering Bart Giamatti, and learning from the Phillie Phanatic.
Oct 10, 2022
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My Fellow (Italian) Americans
We Owe Ourselves More Than Columbus
Oct 7, 2022
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Poetry at the End of the World
I first learned about Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis in an undergraduate international relations class in 1999 or 2000.
Oct 6, 2022
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September 2022
Highways and Hunger
A short reflection on the ecology of the PA Turnpike; Two Springsteen shows 14 years apart show what little progress we've made on food security.
Sep 30, 2022
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