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A reader tells me: r: your blog is so personal, I could never blog in that way… nc: personal? I wont even reveal the top movies selected...

“Drama-starved pundits"--these are words used in a WPost article today referring to those who will pick up on Cheney’s comments on the ...

The NYT describes ( here ) a town in Quebec (Coaticook) where the mayor is providing subsidies so that people would hurry up and multiply. C...

reader ( r ): if you could have 5 million people read your blog daily, would you be happy? nc : No. definitely not. All those anonymous add...

Class notes from today: nc: “Why isn’t this case a slam dunker, a no brainer, and easy win for the plaintif? student: “Professor Camic...

Weather update: the snow has officially melted in the backyard. Completely. Now is the time to draw mighty plans and turn great ambitions in...

An interesting article in the Washington Post today made me wonder if its mission is to spot inconsistencies in NYT reporting (read it here ...

In today’s Cap Times, columnist Doug Moe both complains that Midwesterners have to “wear” the label of having no taste (especially for cloth...

A Polish reader sent me photos from the reunion of our university class of economists. I had begun my studies in econometrics with these guy...

An odd way to begin a new month, a new week, and a new morning: to write a blog post about a story from last month’s Wine Spectator. It a...

A reader who has been amused with my Award obsession for a while now suggested that I perhaps should consider switching my focus to the “In...

...That a small handful of Academy Award recipients had the drive to include in their message of thanks something/someone other than names o...

Q: What happens when you set your internal alarm to 6pm (central time) thinking that this is when the Awards are aired and find yourself sta...

A wonderfully loyal reader and friend from Poland today admitted that sometimes my text runs completely into terrain that muddles and befudd...

I am recording the following conversation between a reader (r) and myself (n): r: I have known you all these years and I never knew you o...

The NYT Magazine has an article today that tracks the debate about whether universities should abandon the “legacy advantage” in their admis...

I want to mention two blog posts that were as interesting as anything I might cite to in the press: The first is Tonya’s ( here ), where sh...

Good title because: it has been a slow blogger day, and I haven’t had enough food to keep me happy (an evening event that was never touted a...

In her blog ( here ), Ann linked to a songbook, dated 1944, that is a compilation of lyrics for songs of the Women’s Army Corps. I had seen...

I’ve noticed in myself a reluctance to blog in a political vein lately. There are many reasons for it (among other things, what I think abou...