Last night, I attended a talk by Nicolas Kristof, an editorialist for the NYTimes, regarding the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

( Read more... )

Birds chirp, dogwoods bloom, spiders move in. Most notably, the tank top and skirt parade begins. Springtime!

Up in the Northeast, it feels like spring takes forever to settle in ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, after catching a bit of the academy awards on tv, I had this wonderful dream. ( Read more... )

Most of my friends down here, fellow planning-grad students here at UNC (and their s.o.'s), collectively have a whole mess of dietary issues and allergies. These include: wheat allergies, various nut allergies, allergies to dogs/cats, lactose intolerance, no sugar in diet, no salt in diet. A lot of people I know avoid caffeine. Before I left work ( Read more... )

So even if I am not out dancing tonight as originally intended, it is at least heartening to remember that I can always shake it down at the Local Dance Club. The Super Local one. That being my living room.

There's always that fear that someone will catch you though.

Glad someone caught this guy.

There’s a section of the fifth amendment of the ( Read more... )

Dear World ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone missed it, The New York Times (Sunday) came out with a fantastic piece officially endorsing John Kerry.

The lesser known Lone Star Iconoclast, Bush's hometown paper, has done the same thing.

I was amused by the moment in last night's debate when Kerry accused Bush of benefiting from the small business tax cut by his ownership of a timber company, to which Bush replied "I own a timber company? That's news to me."

NPR this morning plugged this site as a good place to check out the validity of these kinds of claims.

Apparently NPR's plug ( Read more... )

I just started school and read something today that I thought was fun even though it was assigned reading,  and for - of all things - Statistics. Go figure. (Tufte's Visual Explanations, in the interest of proper citing).

There was a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s. Within days of the ( Read more... )