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We've recorded some new stuff. Here's "Empty Midnight."

Purpose of trip: (1) To attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. (2) To catch up with my friend Nancy from North Carolina,...

With the new academic year fast approaching (all too fast approaching, but that's another story), I've been working on getting class...

I found out about a year ago that California's corporate law has some interesting features, for instance, that if a California non-profi...

So, we threw the big birthday dinner party yesterday, starting around 3, and ending around midnightish. Ten courses is a lot. My favorite it...

... to Napoleon Bonaparte, 239 years old today! , and to Julia Child, who woulda been 94 , and to India, independent in 1947 , and to the Co...

Looking to save on your income taxes this year - and next year, and next, and next? Incorporate! Two-thirds of large corporations in the US...

I don't want to tip my hand much about the plans for my birthday bash on Saturday. (My birthday is actually on Friday, but the orgy bac...

Here's "Song of Salt and Clay," a thing of odd provenance.

Brought to you by random coincidence, Doc Nagel's Top 100 Things 22. Jokes. I just love 'em. Apparently, the world's oldest joke...

With any luck, Emerson was actually right about something when he wrote that "foolish inconsistency is the hobgoblin of little minds....

I'm still more vaguely annoyed than analytically critical of the fact that Dauenhauer comprehends silence sub specie human significatio...

Given recent troubling economic newz , I thought it would be a good idea to present Doc Nagel, Inc.'s quarterlies. This is important inf...

This is starting to look like a theme. Today I spent some time with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception , tracking down ...

I teach philosophy for a living, but it's more serious than that. I have a Ph.D. in philosophy. I read philosophical books. Philosophy i...

At long last, Federal Reserve Bank chairman Ben Bernanke has something positive to say about the financial and economic situation: Fannie Ma...

I'm working on a project on silence, for a paper for the Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences. I've finished working through...

Civility is the last refuge of a scoundrel.* Lately I've been leafing through the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Re...

Well, we built a floor-to-ceiling cat scratching post and climbing tower. It was much less than half the cost of buying one, including buyin...

Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of Lauren and I cohabiting. We celebrate three anniversaries, in fact, but to me, the fifth of July is ...