March 2010
2 posts
“I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
I read this book last January, and today a friend gifted it to me. I remember last time I read it I was inspired to write again for a while, to the point where a friend and I discussed writing novellas. Hopefully rereading it will result in inspiration striking...
February 2010
16 posts
“I want to live each day for itself like a string of colored beads, and not kill...”
– Sylvia Plath, Unabridged Journals.
Op-Ed Columnist - Our Politics May Be All in Our... →
This is interesting, on some basic level it does make sense (conservatives being sensitive to fear), but I can’t really comment on the science.
One important and interesting point Kristof makes:
“Conservatives may be more responsive to health reform, he suggested, if it is framed as a national security argument. For example, American companies complain about the difficulty of...
my friend on our love of The West Wing
her: and you know what? i think they're healthy crushes. i mean, crushing on the deputy chief of staff and the president's speech writer is acceptable.
you know you’re getting anglicized when you spell it snow ‘plough’ and gmail underlines it in red (or i guess my computer does the underlining?)… but ‘plow’ just has so few letters! lol.
Governor's School cuts foreclose on N.J.'s future... →
End of Governor’s school for public issues. My gov school. I remember the writer of this article coming and speaking to us at gspi. Angered by this decision, more on it later.
of all the random little things I always think I’ll miss about America, USPS is not one of them. Turns out I do (miss USPS that is).
Also, I really like post offices. Random.
The grisly truth about the Super Bowl abortion ad.... →
Being pro-choice and all, I obviously don’t like this ad. But my problem with it is similar to that described in this article. It isn’t just about labels about choice and life - it’s about a distorted message, that if you don’t have an abortion and carry through an extremely risky pregnancy, you will have a child who is a star football player. Obviously, most people...
healthcare. finally.
American healthcare.
I don’t really know where to go after those two words. They have consumed and captivated the interest of the Western world for the past few months.
Why does the rest of the world care so much? What difference does it make if Americans have health care or not? What difference does it make where the system goes?
Honestly? It’s about American exceptionalism. The same...
I’ve started drawing graphs to understand my essay questions. I now officially feel like a real economics student.