happy thanksgiving

Too full of pie to create my own content on Thanksgiving, I direct you instead to the rightly written tirade on the holiday provided by Twisty over at I Blame the Patriarchy.  Is Thanksgiving a “patriarchal theo-consumerist” tradition?  She offers up good evidence for why my particular level of satiation may be a failure in [...]

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post-elections post

I realize I never commented on the elections.  I suppose this came from a sense of oversaturation – every other news source and blog in the country was providing endless coverage of the election, so why should I add to it?
But I’d like to point out two different articles over at Grist, which discuss the [...]

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the death of friedman – the end of an era?

Milton Friedman died this past week; the news of course is front page material on the University of Chicago news page, which gives a glowing review of Friedman’s life, as does the five-page story on him in the NYTimes.  Perhaps more interesting, I think, is this piece by Joel Makower over at WorldChanging highlighting Friedman’s [...]

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worldchanging comes to chicago!

This announcement should have been up earlier, but the October blogging blackhole (in which all non-class writing was swallowed up by the sheer gravitational force of the quantity of pages needing to be read) sort of knocked it out of orbit for awhile.
But I’m taking time out of reading this weekend (and what I should [...]

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happy election day!

Don’t forget to vote.
If you’re here in Chicago and need info on voting for judges, check out the Chicago Council of Lawyers evaluation ratings.  Also, an announcement over the Human Rights listhost here at the UofC suggested that there are several sitting judges who should not be retained because of their involvement in prosecution of [...]

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