I don’t usually write a blog post on Friday.  I’ve got an early class, and it’s my absolutely worst day on a number of levels. But I heard this last night, and I can’t help myself. Mayor Bloomberg and the same health department that tried to limit “sugary drinks” to no more than 16 ounces–unless…

I learned something very important this election. I’m an old person.  I can no longer stay up all night to listen to the returns and then do a normal day following.  I did indeed do my entire normal day yesterday, but I spent the whole time feeling as if I was about to fall over.…

So, what can I say? I voted. I didn’t vote for Romney.  And I didn’t vote for Obama. But I voted, and so did the two of them, Greg for the first time.  Greg managed to keep his mouth shut, so that he didn’t get thrown out of the polls for electioneering. I found out…

Well, looking over the commments, I think I’m with Cheryl–I think the issue isn’t self interest, but disgust and disillusionment at the free riding. And not just the freeriding of intellectuals who want to spend all their time talking theory instead of doing anything specific.  At New Harmony, especially, there was a distinct–and distinctly large–free…

So, with the outage repaired in what I have to consider record time, and other things more or less out of control on the usual bases, I actually got to settle down with a book I need to pay attention to, and that book is Joshua Muravchik’s Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of…

Well, what can I say? We lost power.  And we not only lost power, but the new VP for Emergency Management at Connecticut Light and Power, or whatever he’s called, got up at press conferences and said all the same things the old president or CEO or whatever he was said last time, which did not…

Well, no. What it is is a very soggy morning even before the rain comes, with a little wind.  But Sandy hasn’t made landfall yet, so although I’ve got my fingers crossed, I’m also charging everything chargable in the house.  All the schools are closed, and most of them  have declared themselves closed both today…

So here it is, late October. Tomorrow evening will mark one year to the day since the freak snow storm since the freak snow storm that knocked out the power to most of Connecticut for the following seven to nine days. This was, to put it simply, Not Fun.  It was, in fact, barely bearable. …

So–I got my midterm grades in, and all my correcting done, and even a few things done around the house, in the middle of a crisis where a pipe that goes from my house to the water main exploded and it was apparently all my fault. It was one of those things where, if I…

So here’s the thing. Right now, I’m supposed to be in the other room, correcting papers. It’s midterms, and that means I have literally hordes of panicked students convinced that their midterm grade is going to be an F because they haven’t handed in–well, a lot of stuff, actually. Because they’re always late with stuff.…