
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen


Reconsidering the 37th president
May 1st, 2013
The state of California's single payer movement
April 30th, 2013

Remembering the American comics artist and editor
April 27th, 2013
On the American country music legend
April 27th, 2013
On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'
April 26th, 2013
A History of Progressivism in Pawnee
April 23rd, 2013
Remembering Derrida's "Specters of Marx" lecture
April 23rd, 2013
Poetry, feminism, and Austin's BookWoman bookstore
April 20th, 2013
Andy Griffith and the Humor of Mourning
April 20th, 2013
A Year in Wine and Poems
April 19th, 2013

On film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
April 17th, 2013
Thomas Barrow and TV's trouble with 'the Gay Character'
April 16th, 2013
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More