so close

December 15, 2010

It’s time to confront the imminent demise of yet another academic semester. (Woooohoooo!) I taught my last discussion section over …

it’s those feminists at the pentagon again

December 11, 2010

A few days ago, I was listening to KQED’s Forum radio show, where they were discussing Wikileaks. While some of …

June 22, 2009

Just got an email from a friend in Iran, who is hoping to ‘participate in some things hopefully without being …

June 4, 2009

so, France has passed a ‘three strikes law’ directed at file sharers. The bill will create a new government agency …

March 25, 2009

NY Times: Cities report upsurge in shanty towns. In Seattle, homeless residents in the city’s 100-person encampment call it Nickelsville, …

February 12, 2009

aka Washington Mutual now charges you $2 for using a non-WaMu ATM So, as a happy grad student with my …

October 25, 2008

So, the horrible just keeps getting horribler. The WWF’s latest report points out that the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (issued …

April 24, 2008

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes From a Catastrophe, because I really liked the original series of New Yorker …