Monthly archives: November 2014
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5. The Hype is the Hype
"The Truth Behind College Admission" in today’s New York Times nails it: “It’s not that fewer students are accepted; it’s that applications have run riot.” […]Read More
4. To Pretend (Ferguson)
I am not at all surprised by the verdict or the various reactions to it. The optimist who I want to be sees a silver […]Read More
3. Rhetorical Shenanigans
A. First real decision of the day: escalator v. elevator. On the one hand, despite extensive summer of 2013 repairs the escalator seems not to […]Read More
2. Lydia Davis Wannabe
I don’t know what this is, a fiction in its infancy, perhaps, one I will share here and now only because it was the very […]Read More
1. Put This in Your Pipe
This is not a post. That doesn’t make much sense, I know, as by all appearances what you’re looking at resembles nothing so much as a […]Read More