Afterthoughts: Back To School, Back To Procrastinating

School is already hard. Bad sign? I think so.
—Fund good Iraq reporters (WiB)
—McSweeney’s is making a one issue magazine. So…it’s not a book…but it’s not a magazine. (McSweeney’s)
—Comic books are obsessed with penises. (LGM)
—Up in the Air just doesn’t look that good to me. (Youtube)
—Jonathan Chait, a University of Michigan alumn, has a blog. (TNR)
—A [...]

Afterthoughts: Back To School Edition

I’m going to be heading back to Michigan tomorrow and then spending the next few days figuring out my schedule (classes, extracurriculars) and frantically reading everything I wanted to read over the past two weeks. It’s sad, I really did have a reasonable stack I could get through, but I started playing WoW with Cara [...]

Afterthoughts

The last “Afterhoughts” of 2009! (That makes it sound like I’ve been doing this for a long time doesn’t it?)
—Two bloggers were subpoenaed by the Feds for spreading the leaked TSA memo about enhanced security measures after the Christmas Day terrorist attack. (TPM)
—Alan Jacobs lists his most used iPhone apps. (TNA)
—The French know when a [...]

Afterthoughts

Michelle is visiting and staying with me and the family for a week so I hope to post some pictures of our odyssey around Chicago.
—Amtrak says it needs faster trains to make more money and for that it needs more money. (NYT)
—On New Years’ eve, Chicago buses cost a penny to entice partygoers not to [...]

Afterthoughts

So I’ve decided to change the name of the Linkage feature to Afterthoughts. The idea is the same.
—Tim Sahd sees parallels between the resignation of the University of Florida’s coach and recent Democratic retirement announcements.
—Going into the 2010s, Anti-immigrant tension in France remains high.
—What do zombies really symbolize?
—Tony Judt’s first of a series of reflective [...]

Linkage

I watched the movie The Express today. Awful. On the bright side, I’m splitting my reading time between Red Mars and Mark Danner’s latest book which so far has very much entertained me.
—David Denby is far too kind in his review of Avatar.
—Avi Zenilman is tearing it up as guestblogger at Greg Sargent’s Plumline.
—Francophone Canadians [...]

Linkage

It was a pretty good Christmas, family and various gift problems aside:
—Julie Hamos seems like the most promising liberal candidate for the Illinois Tenth District.
—Hendrik Hertzberg corresponds with a really smart college student.
—A terrorist attack failed today, thankfully.

Linkage

It’s Christmas Eve! Why’re you staring at the computer? (and why am I?)
—Southern states are going to see a slight gain in Congressional seats.
—John Edwards is building houses in South America.
—I finally saw a movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman that I didn’t like.
—Ned makes an insightful point on liberals, Star Trek, and policy.

Linkage

Happy Holidays!

Josh Marshall analyzes the Republican’s attempt to woo Chris Carney.
Jonathan Raban in the New York Review of Books on Going Rogue.
Jack Schafer doesn’t believe all the tablet hype.
Have colleges always been as selective as they are now? (NYT)
Matt Zeitlin is blogging like a mother. In this post he meditates on the CBO.
Daniel Larison, Jacksonian [...]

Relapse

So I haven’t blogged as much as I’d been intending to because truthfully…I had a World of Warcraft relapse. Yes, it’s true, I’m an addict and was in remission but somehow I started playing again (I blame the 10 day free trial Blizzard e-mailed me). Needless to say with the slim news because of the [...]

OK – Finally, my first post here.

Hello, all readers.  I’m sure you’re absolutely devastated that Daniel is gone, absent, in recuperation, or otherwise recouping his lost brainpower.  Because, in return, you get me.  I’m Cara, of blogroll fame, and what you know about me:  When I was two, I automatically assumed that Daniel and I were going to get married.  I [...]

Linkage

Finally done but I’m ever so drained. I should be back to normalcy on Monday.

David Remnick, Ben Greenman, Tad Friend, and other New Yorker staffers share what they read this year.
Glenn Greenwald on “Gitmo North“
I miss Farscape. It was by far the best show on television.
Did you know that novelist and historian Shelby Foote almost [...]