Cultivating Outrage

Black hole of paperwork In December 2023, when Victor turned 60, he received a letter from AFORE , the government-mandated company that mana...

Link to more photos . View the photos individually to see the captions. We took a group tour to Copper Canyon ( Barrancas del Cobre ) in M...

At Occidental last night, they showed the 2009 documentary  The Yes Men Fix The World , and then the two Yes Men spoke, answered questions,...

  Tim Greiving spoke and signed books at Vromans last night. Tim Greiving I even brought my 'Celebrating John Williams' CD just i...

  Ted Chiang spoke at Occidental last night on "The Incompatibilities between Generative AI and Art." ( index to autographs )

  Link to more photos . As I've written before , I loved reading comic books when I was younger. My two favorite comic book artists were...

Link to more photos . We went on a one-day tour to Orange County. The highlight was the Bowers Museum . It was my first visit there. The fe...

Our cruise ship (not my photo) Link for more photos. (View the photos individually to see the captions. And see below for a second photo al...

I've never understood the common complaint that the news is mostly bad news. One of the requirements for something to be newsworthy is b...

Given my interests in linguistics, higher education, and Mayan culture, I would have to read this book. I would usually wait for it to be av...