Cultivating Outrage

More State Department stupidity After waiting 8 damn weeks , the good news is that Victor was not  told he has tuberculosis. (He wasn...

The National Museum of African-American History and Culture and the Washington Monument ​ 13 photos at the U.S. Botanic Garden 19 ph...

Responding to a column two weeks ago, I wrote this letter, published in today's Los Angeles Times : The “ Credit Card Fee Game ” [...

Giraffe in Parque Central Link to more photos. (View them individually to see the captions.) As discussed in the previous post , Vi...

I should have known better. I thought this trip would finish everything, but I forgot that there have been unexpected complications and d...

My only mathematics "publication" In 1984, The Mathematical Intelligencer magazine asked for pithy definitions of applied a...

I have not yet read any of Mosley's books. I decided to attend his talk at this past weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Bo...

I have always enjoyed Wright's work in The New Yorker , and our book group discussed  The Looming Tower back in 2006. Until I rea...

Chip Levine Memorial Award (CLMA)  Rodney Hoffman for Devotion to Jewish Studies, 1964 To all appearances, I was quite a religious ...

A few of my WEC items [Prompted by  this John Markoff article  about WEC in the LATimes] I was a huge fan of The Whole Earth Catal...