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In Medias Res
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Essays, notes, and fragments--personal, political, and philosophical--from the midst of things
LATEST ARTICLES ( 588 )
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Saturday Night Live Music: "Find Myself a Sunny Spot"
It was 1992, in Provo, Utah, and a student newspaper I contributed to, and a feminist club I hung around with, had a joint, great idea for a fundraiser: we'd... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2012 SOCIETY -
Saturday Night Live Music: "Steamroller" and Much More
I'd never consciously listened to a James Taylor song before the two years I spent in South Korea on a proselytizing mission for the Mormon church from... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2012 SOCIETY -
Mocking Romney's Mormon Self-Sufficiency, and What That Misses
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent] Amy Sullivan has an article on The New Republic's website this morning, calling Mitt Romney "insufferably cheap," and arguin... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2012 SOCIETY -
Cleansing the Altar, and the Anvil Too
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent]Some interrelated thoughts for today, which is Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday that I kind of wish every year was one of my own. Read more
Posted on 26 September 2012 SOCIETY -
Saturday Night Live Music: "Diamond in the Rough"
Early Shawn Colvin. Melissa and I saw her do a great show at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC sometime in the late 90s; I wish I could find a recording of that, o... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2012 SOCIETY -
How Mitt Romney Deflated the Mormon Moment
[Cross-posted to By Common Consent] Before we get too far into this week's Democratic National Convention, let me get off my chest something about last week's,... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2012 SOCIETY -
The Kansas GOP Has Thought Itself Out of Another Good Politician
[This is a submission to the Wichita Eagle; we'll see if they take it. Update, 9/7/2012, 1:00pm CST: a shortened version of the article was printed in the... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2012 SOCIETY -
Saturday Night Live Music: "I Hung My Head"
Melissa and I may never have seen The Police in action (and considering that they came to both Kansas City and Dallas during their reunion tour a few years back... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2012 SOCIETY