First they came for the "suspected terrorists," and I said nothing...
Paul Ford, a New York-based writer, wrote in 1999 of "[t]he last thing I consider, the thing spinning all night in my head, looming over me like the World Trade Center". Off to Heller Lounge …
I went to Russia. Dan didn't understand. But now, it seems, he plans on going to China after graduation, to study kung fu. I wonder if I influenced him at all. I probably can't ask …
Professor Rogin wrote many articles and books. One can read some of them online. Right now I'm reading "Mon Pays" (My Country), a book review. I can hear his voice in my head when I …
A professor here whose classes I really enjoyed, who was so smart, so thought-provoking, so accessible to students, so penetrating, so willing to admit when he was wrong, has died. I just got an email …
I really wanna go but I know I shouldn't. Also, I shouldn't even be on the net right now. Also, I'm sick.
I just conversed with my sister and lent her: One-L by Scott Turow, Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, Waiting by Ha Jin, and a book of graphic --that is, comic-book style-- retellings of various …
I read a really heartening Associated Press item over the weekend: Turkey's legislature just passed some really sweeping law revisions recognizing various women's rights. Hurrah!
Things I should be thinking about: my paper. Things I am thinking about: humanism, humility, love, logic, meditation, menstruation, food, topics for columns for my Daily Cal application, the most painful sorrow imaginable, and my …
I am trying and trying to learn to swallow my pride. The universe does not care about me, but some other people do. A difficult mix to master.
