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“An electrician by trade and a Rolling Stones fanatic, D’Angelo has owned all kinds of businesses over...

Nothing too exciting.

Terrific story of how Frank Sinatra came to record “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” with Nelson Riddle. This seems right to me:

Frank’s restlessness—in his art, his personal...

I did a thing today with Yale sociologist Phil Gorski; I think that will be up soon, and when it's up, I'll post it here.  In the meantime, some bread and circuses for the masses.

Fun story about...

I'm back, babies!  Sorry for the month-long silence; it's been busy at the end of the semester.  I'm slowly pulling myself out of the rubble, and here's what I have, for starters.

The phrase...

Baby steps, people.

What would it be like, if everyone of us or one day to have a report written on our lives, based on our skeletons?

Interesting attempt to push back at the way the US Media has covered the French response to several terrorist acts by people who may be characterized (fairly?) as Islamist radicals.  

Nice.  Make writing not about reflexivity or self-consciousness, but about...

I've been quiet lately, but I've been gathering data.

An interesting story about the changing ecology of the media sphere, and the way that traditional keepers are pushing back on the alternative news of the right wing ecosystem. I wonder if this is going to last. It seems a good step to me.

I've been quiet lately, but I've been gathering data.

An interesting story about the changing ecology of the media sphere, and the way that traditional keepers are pushing back on the alternative news of the right wing ecosystem. I wonder if this is going to last. It seems a good step to me.

I've been quiet lately, but I've been gathering data.

An interesting story about the changing ecology of the media sphere, and the way that traditional keepers are pushing back on the alternative news of the right wing ecosystem. I wonder if this is going to last. It seems a good step to me.

It's been a week, hasn't it?  Well, we can hope that the election is over, that Donald Trump is not permitted to run a coup by his GOP enablers, and that the United States will for now continue to exist as a constitutional republic.  (But if you needed more evidence that the GOP is deeply sick right now, the past week would provide it.)

But that's not what I'm looking at right now.  Right now I'm looking at...