Recent Exercises

  • The Wu-Tang Opening

    RZA has founded a hip-hop chess site.  No Joke.  There is a great Times article here about it, where there’s a great video of the NYT chess editor…

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  • Now the Obama Supporters will start talking about how awesome Batman is going to be. . .

    Congrats to Obama and his friends. I know I’m pumped.  SomethingAwful supplies the appropriate picture: C. Wright Mills helps me commemorate my feelings at this moment: "The gap…

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  • Nightmares and Reality

    Last night I had a very strange and stressful dream about the Dean deciding to intervene in debate directly and making all these crazy decisions about it without…

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  • Sunday – A Day Off

    This is the last day off before I implement my more measured schedule for the summer. Bruce Springsteen is singing "Spirit in the Night" on my lovely laptop…

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  • Managing a Surplus

    It’s funny that this article appeared this morning, for it’s what I spent most of my morning doing. I have a 250GB external drive that is pretty much…

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  • The Promise of Reason

    Just returned from a very stimulating and very enriching conference hosted at the University of Oregon on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The New Rhetoric. What…

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