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The saddest Christmas tree in the world …
… and perhaps the most beautiful one!
Judging books by their covers
Check out this selection of creative book covers via Emily Temple/LitHub. Hat tip: Kottke.
Clocks as conceptual art
Check out the recent art exhibit pictured below at the Whitney Musuem. If we are going to rail against modern master/slave relationships, however, I would start off with email, not clocks, as I have always thought of clocks as helpful … Continue reading
True or false? (lockdowns edition)
Update (8/17/21): I have since made substantial revisions to the paper mentioned below and have re-titled it “Lockdowns as Takings.” With the recent rash of oppressive and exemption-riddled lockdown orders being imposed across the United States again, I thought I … Continue reading
The real reason why Texas lost?
Smith v. Rapid Transit, y’all! As you may have heard by now, SCOTUS threw out, by a vote of 7 to 2, Texas’s last-ditch effort to derail the election of former Vice President Joe Biden, but what you may not … Continue reading
Viva la Virgen!
Today (12 December) is the Feast Day of the Virgen of Guadalupe, a national holiday in Mexico and one of my favorite feast days of the year! More details here, in Spanish.
Recommended reading
Putting aside porn sites and the dark web, are we not living in an Internet “golden age” of ideas and information? Here are just a few of the excellent essays and Wikipedia entries that I randomly stumbled upon this semester: … Continue reading

