Drinking Through Gentrification

So Ben and I checked out Chicago Green Drinks last night, a regular event put on by the Foresight Design Initiative. The event is intended to help people connect with others involved in issues of sustainability throughout the city, as well as to spark discussion on specific topics of sustainable and green design, usually [...]

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And Some Philosophical Satire

From the Philosophical Lexicon, I present some definitions to help you on your way to better understanding the tangled mass of current Western philosophy:
buber, v. To struggle in a morass of one’s own making. “After I defined the self [...]

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Library Satire

Library and anti-cellphone humor with satirical trumped-up poetic interpretation all at once.  Wonderful.
(From The Little Professor, a very book-oriented blog by a former Uof C English PhD student.)

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You, Too, Can Be Jackson Pollock

I didn’t post this link originally, thinking somehow that others wouldn’t find it as amusing as I did. But since then everyone I’ve shown has seemed so overly delighted that I realized I would in fact be limiting the amount of joy in the world should I keep it to myself. And certainly [...]

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The Middle East “Buddy List”

Or, Who Hates Who in the Middle East: An Interactive Chart.
Slate charts out nicely some of the relationships between the many actors in the Middle East.  It doesn’t cover all of them, but focuses on how various countries and organizations relate to Hamaz, Hezbollah, Israel, and Lebanon.  It won’t clear away all the confusion, but [...]

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Chicago Recycling, Part 2

How excited was I to walk by a news box today and see that the front cover of the Chicago Reader’s most recent issue prominately featured a blue bag full of recyclables? The matching story, The Awful Truth About Recycling in Chicago, provides much more detailed info on the failed history of the Chicago [...]

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comments on Israel/Lebanon conflict

Ben had suggested to me a little bit ago that I post about the current conflict going on between Israel and Lebanon.  I more or less backed away from this under the general excuse that I don’t know anywhere enough about Middle East politics to discuss it with great skill. But then I felt pretty [...]

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