Things are winding down here, mostly because I've found other places to write on the internet. I'll tell you a little more about them in a final post, but for the moment here's a link to my main home these days: The Train of Thought, where I post as 6.54 ( Read more... )

My house is being repainted, which is serving as an excuse for my parents to clean out as much shit as they can while everything is still in chaos.

In the midst of the mess, along with a 1960s-era "Batman" tie, Herbert Hoover's translation of De Re Metallica and The Book of Surrealist Games, they found a little plastic bag with a long red ribbon ( Read more... )

Ceremonial glass of Jameson in hand, I just got back from the Symphony Space Ulysseys reading, in honor of the 104th Bloomsday. It lasted eight motherfucking hours, and I stayed the whole time except for coffee and conversation breaks ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of focus on Scalia's Boumediene v. Bush dissent over the last few days, in part because the enemy combatant clause in the 5th amendment is the constitutional grounding for Bush's case, and Scalia focused on that issue directly and immediately ( Read more... )

So here's a hell of a graph. Aside from the wider and more obvious implications (read: the internet is for porn), and aside from the fact that we'd really need to know more about what this is measuring and be given real numbers to consider it meaningful, there are a few points worth making ( Read more... )

Due to Ted Kennedy's unfortunate illness, Barack Obama will be the commencement speaker at the Wesleyan graduation on Sunday.

I have secured a press pass.

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I'll be living HERE this summer.

1. Banana Tempura.

An essay of mine was just accepted for publication in Logos, the Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy at Cornell. It's a comparison of Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish Christian philosopher who lived mostly in the first half of the 19th century, and Xunzi, an ancient Chinese Confucian philosopher from the 200s BCE. I'm both gratified and a little ( Read more... )