• Personal

Carolyn, Easter 2017

• Aesthetics
• Art
• Culture
• Design
• History
• Humanities

“seriously, the guy has a point” — on the Charging Bull and Fearless Girl Controversy

Art conveys significance; however, much of that significance is constructed by the receiver. That's why I care less about what a…

• Personal

Easter 2017

• Aesthetics
• Amusing
• Current_Events
• Personal
• PopCult

Eye of Sauron, Hobbit Door, Palantir and One Ring Easter Eggs.

• Essays
• Journalism
• Philosophy
• PopCult
• Writing

The American Scholar: Celebrity Profiles

Phllip Lopate writes a good essay on the challenges of writing a celebrity profile. My take: Just as Plato argued…

• Business
• Current_Events
• Ethics
• Journalism

Is the United Airlines man being smeared in the media even the right David Dao? It shouldn’t matter

“Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age…

• Business
• Culture
• Current_Events
• Ethics
• Rhetoric
• Writing

The facts evolve as we look into how our re-accommodation process that involved goons dragging out a limp and bloodied customer has caused our stock to plunge.

The language in the official United response to the "re-accommodation" incident deserves some analysis . Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville…

• Cyberculture
• Ethics
• Health
• Media
• Rhetoric
• Science

Captain, the Fake News Detectors are Offline!

Slate has a good article about William "Captain Kirk" Shatner's involvement with a Twitter incident that involved Autism Speaks, the…

• Personal

Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?

• Personal

My precious is fifteen.