Girl Talk I
Today, on my way home, I saw a little goat family that had gotten loose from the hill, chewing on this and that along…
Read MoreDo YOU know Doug?
First, you have to imagine the bus. It’s not anything like ours. It’s a small van, like a VW line cast off, with four…
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Sparing you the suspense: Here’s what I eat and drink in Rwanda
My morning meal was so remarkably German (smoked sausage and cheese) that it struck me I should maybe put a little post up about…
Read MoreJina 2, Mosquitos 1
Bastards.
Read MoreForgive us our tresspasses, when we admit them with humor…
From a correction posted to a Feb. 18, 2008, NYT Story, “Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location”: “An article in some editions…
Read MoreI can’t believe I’m posting about George Clooney
It has come to this. But maybe the “it” isn’t me… Hold on, we need some context: Clooney recently had a dark-night-of-the-soul (or of…
Read MoreJina leaves walker behind, joins digital revolutionaries younger than her
I think I figured out the RSS feed, which is the way-hipper answer to subscribing to a blog than subscribing by email. You know,…
Read MoreA pretty drastic-sounding AIDS treatment
The Rwandan government recently decided to recommend male circumcision as a method of dealing with a rising AIDS rate. There have been studies that…
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My preferred felony
Let me tell you about the child I’d like to steal. I can’t steal this one, though, not only because stealing babies is illegal,…
Read MoreThe civics of capitalism
I ran into an article today that raises a point similar to one that troubled me earlier, about the seeming panacea of purchasing power….
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