When Stuart Hall died earlier this year, I felt the urge to post one of my favorite quotes from his work to Facebook. It was a very small gesture, of course. And I was hardly alone in doing so. My Facebook feed was flooded with similar quotes from dozens of …
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Birds who don’t need thumbs. Trustees who don’t need ethics. TSA agents who don’t need logic. Taxation that needs representation. A team that needs a new name. Surveillance that needs to end.
My old blog still exists, but I haven’t touched it in a long while, and I’m gradually trying to migrate my major online presence over here. So I can envision a day, somewhere down the line, where “Revolution on a Stick” goes away. In the meantime, though, Sundays feel like …
Yesterday’s snail mail brought me the latest in a nearly two-decade (and counting) series of requests from the University of Illinois to be a good alumnus and send them some money. Bracketing (at least for this post) the tenaciousness with which universities stalk their alums and beg for money, I …
The off-the-field headlines from the NFL have been exceptionally bleak lately. Ray Rice. Adrian Peterson. Greg Hardy. Ray McDonald. It’s hardly surprising that lots and lots and lots of people are pissed off. And rightly so. But there’s one NFL owner who must be very happy to see all this …
