Louis Menand, writing about the "overproduction" of Ph.D.'s in the humanities (via 11D): The moral of the story that the numbers tell once seemed straightforward: if ...
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Things are changing. We live here now, since a little over a week ago: I love Manhattan.
One of the comments on DoubleX's reader stories of health insurance nightmares: To the woman with blood clots... Call your insurance company and ask for their Appeals ...
So, umm, let's work on finding all this funny... this morning produced the following series of adventures for our toddler: first, she got hold of and ...
Z can walk really well now, and she can walk fast. Like, look-away-a-minute-and-she's-at-the-other-end-of-the-house-throwing-the-phone-into-the-bathtub fast. So there may not be a lot of writing here for ...
I shan't be going to Blogher this year after all. Why? Well. A has to travel for work then and I'd have to take Z ...
Z is now a walker. She taught herself to walk carefully, meticulously, and with lots of caution designed to avoid encounters with anything that might ...
My brother is visiting and yesterday I was walking around town with him when a woman I used to work with at the university walked ...
There's the pointless embarrassment of a state governor calling a press conference to reveal he's had something as commonplace as an affair. And the emails ...
Two icons I grew up with died today: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. They were both too young to leave us.
Iran news and images via Twitter. Can't look away. And it breaks my heart: I don't see a way around more violence and bloodshed and ...
I can't take a feminist seriously if she takes a condescending tone towards traditionally female activities like crafting in order to make some otherwise valid ...
If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn't yet crippled anyone, is due to medical ...
So this morning an apparent gunman held Princeton University's campus hostage. And by held hostage I mean caused campus security to put all staff, students, ...
Kedves Zsuzsi! Now that you are a year old, it seems only fair that you should get a letter from me. After all, you can almost ...
If those of us who grew up speaking another language can learn to pronounce others' - to us - foreign names correctly, then isn't it ...
Z got mended, of course. We did end up going to the doctor, who was great and whom I want to take home with me ...
We are in Detroit! About which I am ridiculously excited except for some minor glitches, about which more below. And no, we're not staying in ...
Turns out my local mom-friends and I are in a fairly small minority. One could say fringe minority. Let me explain. Obsessions die hard and I've been ...
We're going to Detroit this Friday for three weeks. A's going to be photographing and I'm going to spend lots of time not being on ...
I tend to have a lot of ideas for blog posts while showering, playing with Z, walking the dog, grocery shopping, and so on. Somehow ...
I know that's not a word. Or anything close to it. I just keep thinking of that school strip search story, and just what component ...
Stories like this, about schools and their right to strip search, without due process, any student if they suspect s/he has any drugs on her/him, ...
1. I realize they mean well. And yet it's safe to say that few people have done more damage to my mental health than pediatricians since ...
In a good way. If you haven't already, go watch Susan Boyle sing.
