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Tomorrow is May Day, or International Workers' Day, or whatyoumaycallit. It's also going to be an interesting day of protest actions...

"Keep your nose to the grindstone" doesn't make much sense to me. It's kinda disgusting to think about. We are in fact bac...

We've had absurdly warm, sunny weather here, until today. Today we received the gift of typical Pennsylvania Apriliana - rain, mist, fog...

So, we're in Binghamton, the town so nice, they named it once. We split the Holiday Inn Greentree before 10, to book it to the South Sid...

Pittsburgh is not known by many people who haven't been there for its beauty. This is because they haven't been there. I came to bri...

24 hours from now, we'll be in the air on the way to O'Hare, hence onward to Pittsburgh. And hence (on Thursday) to Binghamton for t...

I'm having a hell of a time concentrating. Aside from the pitched excitement of flying to Pittsburgh Tuesday , and the constant distract...

I bought another guitar. I will say this again, like I did after the last one: this is absolutely the last guitar I can imagine needing or w...

I'd committed some time ago to presenting a paper at a conference with a grad school buddy on Hunter Thomspon and philosophy. This, alre...

Lauren fasted Monday and Tuesday, until about 5 or so, when she declared herself needing to eat. Her will is strong, but during the day on T...

Cow State Santa Claus, in common with (I believe) all the other CSU campuses, observes Cesar Chavez Day on March 31 by closing the campus. T...

I suppose I could sit back and be amused about the War on Christians conference. After all, if a group of people can say (with straight fac...

I did a modicum of research on the next paper - on Hunter S. Thompson and the ideology of objectivity in journalism. But before long I had a...

The California Public Education Commission is studying student fee structures for higher education, specifically the CSU and the UC. Their p...

In the ongoing in-depth media coverage of the six-year campaign of blatantly obvious deception and egregious policy moves, AP reporter Jenni...

Ah, The City. San Francisco. The City so full of itself that they call it The City. We're going to see Eartha Kitt , who is 78.

Apparently, Bush's poll numbers continue to plummet . This pleases me, not because I hold our President in such low regard, but because ...

I don't subscribe to a newspaper any more. I once wallowed in the daily self-destructive habit of reading the Modesto Bee , which is lik...

I've been having fun with my Intro to Philosophy class lately, reading Augustine's dialogue "On the Free Choice of the Will....

It's Friday. It's time to get the Led out, as they say. This has been, not to put too fine a point on it, a hell of a week. Just sin...