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The saddest Christmas tree in the world …

… and perhaps the most beautiful one!

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Which one is the lesser evil?

Email or Zoom?

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Judging books by their covers

Check out this selection of creative book covers via Emily Temple/LitHub. Hat tip: Kottke.

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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 →

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Happy Hanukkah

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Three maps of the United Kingdom

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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 →

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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 →

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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.

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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 →

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