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Flat Earther And Mccain
Thomas Friedman is the new (well, actually, he's kinda/sorta an old variant of) David Brooks. Once again, the NYTimes op ed page has a well known sorta-liberal suggesting..... more
David Brooks, Disengenuous Once Again
David Brooks is a schmuck of the highest order. Here"s a guy who argues, in his latest editorial, that Bush"s pig-headness when it came to rejecting the vast..... more
Bitterness, Appalachia, Ideology And Democracy
As evidenced by at least one previous post, I"ve been pretty well exercised by the silliness associated with “oh-my-god-I-can"t-believe-he-said-that (even-if-its-true)”..... more
Biotech, Lean Times And The New York Times
Today, the New York Times ran a story about the ways that food producers are being pressured, by market prices, to be less selective when it comes to preferring non-genetically..... more
Krugman On Obama And Clinging To Stereotypes
Paul Krugman jumps on the jump-on-Obama bandwagon today, and overemphasizes and overstates the meaning of Obama"s off-hand claim that many rust belt communities have..... more
Born in Portland, OR, brought to Cambridge, MA, by early 60s grad students and, following failed comps at Harvard, then on to St Louis, MO... Cardinals fan for life. Most schooling in suburban NJ, on championship soccer and wrestling teams - good, but others were better... College, during the first four years of Reagan, just south of Philly - loved the film, Birdy... soccer playing, radio programming, odd-frat leading, topics in human sexuality teaching, bio major - sorta. Worked at Sloan-Kettering after 7- or 8-week bike trip in Scotland and failed employ for Mondale-Ferraro in Burlington County, NJ... started playing high quality - but not too high - open-division ultimate frisbee... worlds o' fun (except for Nationals in Houston, TX - that sucked)...
Grad school in Santa Cruz... heaven (more radio, ultimate, coffee, vegetables and beer). Met Jim and Bill, and Diane and Emmett and Chloe, and others. Followed D, E and C to Groton, MA - wrote my dissertation there (while sometimes coaching soccer and wrestling at Lawrence Academy).
A semester at Keene State, a year in Santa Cruz, a year at Guilford College, a buncha years at MSU (married D, we had A and S) and now CMU. Trained in Env'tal, Ag and Feminist Studies, I teach Intro, Political, SciTech, Pop Culture, Sport and Theory in Sociology and work with DF White (soon to arrive at RISD) on a post-structural and interdisciplinary approaches to environmental problems and thought.
