Reality
So I’m beginning to suspect deadlines for this little project of mine might be a bad thing. Basically because I don’t know enough to know how to set them. Deadlines are great when they force you to get...
View ArticleDoes a cowboy always stick to his guns?
In an editorial yesterday about President Bush’s limited exposure to what’s going on in the world, the New York Times writes: It is worrisome when one of the most incurious men ever to occupy the White...
View ArticleOn deciding, and politics and governance
One of the puzzles of the Valerie Plame affair — the puzzle, I think — is why someone in the Bush administration would leak the identity of a CIA agent when it seems unlikely that it would ever have...
View ArticleThe peril of self-publishing
So I’ve been pretty quiet for a while. I had no idea I would be so silent, so long. And I have no idea if it will continue, or not. No idea at all. I mean, I know it’s up to me. Boy do I know it....
View ArticleHello, '04
What's this — a new year? Why, so. And is that worthy of comment? Well, no, not particularly — it's just another day, more or less — but then, what is "worthy of comment," really? I suppose it's rather...
View ArticlePragmatics
If one loathes mediocrity — as one should, of course — it behooves one to fail to realize just how much work the alternative entails.
View ArticleUnexpected guru
Yesterday I was sitting outside in front of my house (on the phone, actually) when the mailman drove up. The box is at the street, but he came up the driveway; there was not one, but three packages,...
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