Preserved here before I forget the whole dialogue, all of which has been translated into English.
“You’re going to the Reserve–” I started to ask one of the three men hanging around the dock in Porto. I had planned on finishing my sentence with of Scandola and the village of Girolata today at 9:30?, but one of […]
Reading these excerpts from John McCain’s speech on foreign policy made me uncomfortable. I don’t know what the best thing to do about Iraq is–part of me wants the war to be over right away, for all the obvious reasons, and part of me feels like we made that mess and we’re responsible for […]
Barack Obama’s speech on race was so good that just reading it made me sort of tear up. It would probably sound pretty hokey to my students, since they have no reason to feel proud of the United States, but my first urge was to show it to them. But they wouldn’t be […]
The Repudiation of Rove
Barack’s record on abortion.
Michael Chabon on Barack Obama. Thanks MM.
I am so glad to see my views on meat stated intelligently in the New York Times, backed up by so much research.
Living in a country where “salade” is often best translated “pile of lardons on a bed of lettuce,” I feel challenged as a vegetarian. A lot of French people are bewildered by […]
I got into graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If all goes well, I’ll have a master’s and a doctorate in French literature in about seven years
Sorry I didn’t say the name of the school sooner–I was being superstitious. But anyway, now I am happy.
No word about funding yet–they don’t decide until April–so keep your […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sounds like a really smart guy in this article, and I applaud him for choosing to criticize the Republicans instead of Hillary Clinton.
The Tetons and the Snake River