Cultivating Outrage

The Los Angeles Times recently ran an op-ed piece by Michael Kinsley. The print version was headlined "Leave the electoral college al...

I called back as soon as I could , August 22, to try to get a new interview date. They said they could now report (?!) our missed intervi...

Panorama of Old Montréal  (Click the photo to view it larger.) Group photo in  Québec City My first time visiting Montréal an...

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...