Monthly Archives: April 2009

Amen To The Laws of Pesach Berman.

Law No. 1. No Singing at the Dinner Table. Law No. 2. Do good deeds for strangers, but beware of relatives. These gem are from a smart, funny and experiential blog created by an artistic polymath. THIS is good. And it is why I read metafilter.

What It Is Like To Auto-Tune History.

O, Τύχη, I yearn for the crooked places to be made straight. via.

My Stance of Ignorance and Brief Abusing of Verbs and Their Allies in The Jungle — uncensored version.

I still consider myself an American, and a US American at that. And after reading through much of the text of The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair I began to believe that what middle school history class had taught me of this novel was misdirected. I found that beginning the book with [...]