I actually read the article Mike Fisher posted the link to a few days ago.  For awhile it was showing up on Facebook on a regular basis. And I thought then what I thought now.  In terms of any discussion about whether government should be allowed to “nudge” or coerce  its citizens to  make its…

Go here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/07/its-your-own-good/ I’d say I was flabbergasted, but I’m used to it.  

So it’s very early in the morning, and I’m sitting at the computer at school having my office hours, which nobody will come to. Until the last week, when they’ll all come at once. But I’m here, and I’ve got work to do, and I should really go do it.  Instead, I’m writing this, because…

It’s Monday. The snowstorm was on Friday and went a bit into Saturday. Schools were closed Friday and there was no mail service in all of NE on Saturday. Classes were cancelled Saturday and Sunday–yes, there are Sunday classes some places–and now… Schools are closed in most of the towns around here, as are colleges…

It’s Saturday morning, and the word is that we’re likely to see a little more snow over the course of the morning. It is, however, not snowing now–but it did, yesterday, a lot. I’ve heard estimated totals for this part of the state of between eighteen and twenty-two inches.  I’m not going to go out…

The title has nothing to do with what I want to talk about today.  It’s just an indicator of my frustration. I got in to school a little later than usual yesterday, so I wasn’t able to get any real work done on the computers. To make up for that, I’ve been trying to sign…

I’d like to remind everybody that the lists are not some kind of challenge, and that the list for January is unusually  long.  January is dead time for teaching, and on top of that is was dead time for writing, too.  I got sick, I got questions that needed resolving in the manuscript–in the end…

If you’re interested, I put up a post just before this one giving the  list of the books read and completed in January, plus short stories and long essays from anthogies but not newspapers, magazines and websites. There’s got to be a limit somewhere. Anyway, the idea wasn’t  to list everything I read, but only…

So, for the month of January, books and short stories read (not including newspapers, magazines, etc) are: 1) George Steiner. The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan. 2) Dorothy L. Sayers. Five Red Herrings. (rr) 3) C. Northcote Parkinson.  The Evolution of Political Thought. 4) Thomas Penn.  Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn…

This is my first day back in class, and I’m completely frantic–the beginning of the term is ALWAYS a mess, and they ALWAYS change the boilerplate for the syllabus. Anyway, I can’t do a blog post today, but I did get the following in e-mail from Robert. It connects to yesterday’s post, so I throw…