I am all over the place today. It might be lack of sleep or too much caffeine to make up for the lack of sleep — or both? But here we are. Some of this stuff is pretty new, some of it a little old. I was just interested in what might be written about … Read More “Things I Read Today: Sun Ra, College Admissions, Neuroscience of Writing, and Star Wars” »
Category: Reading
The category for “Things I Read Today”
It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted my online reading to this category. Weird winter weather and freelance work got a bit distracting. I want to keep up on this as a kind of reading diary and to keep track of the more interesting things I come across. Rarely will I … Read More “Things I Read Today: Toxic Masculinity, HG Wells, Pseudoscience, and Gen Z” »
Senator Elizabeth Warren released her proposal for universal child care in the United States as part of her presidential campaign platform, so I thought I’d do a little reading on how the policy has played out elsewhere. There is a LOT of research, so don’t expect this post to be comprehensive. Not even close. Here … Read More “Things I Read Today: Universal Child Care” »
The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government, by Kim Phillips-Fein “Today, liberal nostalgia for Roosevelt comes easily. The country is mired in crises lacking obvious resolutions; the move toward greater equality that began to unfold during the 1930s has been largely undone. How much easier the situation would be if there were a … Read More “Things I Read Today: Presidents Day Edition” »
I like “Things I Read Today” as a title for this part of my blog. So it’s a category? Is that how to wordpress? Anyway, I like it because it puts that old Beatles’ tune “Things We Said Today” in my head. (As opposed to new Beatles tunes written by Lennon and Harrison, still alive … Read More “Things I Read Today: Monsters of Art and of Genocide” »
I haven’t used the blogging feature on this site to do actual blogging in ages — since I converted the purpose of the site to host my comics and promote my illustration work. But I’ve been feeling the bug to blog a little. Microblogging on social media can feel like too much brain farting. And … Read More “Things I Read Today” »
