“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sep
22
Turning pages, turning leaves, turning time. I honestly cannot believe another season has begun its transition. The moments I spend with the written word and art between these pages are always some of my most treasured encounters. Reading and curating the innermost workings of our contributors, I always come to the same conclusion: We are […]
Oct
11
(originally posted 7/17/2012) I don’t know what the weather is where you live but where I’m at we’re in the middle of an ice storm. In a few hours I’m guessing that even the malls will be closed as the roads become too dangerous to venture out on. A perfect day to build a […]
Oct
10
(originally posted 3/14/2013) I heard my first racist joke when I was about eleven. I went to an all-white school and lived in an all-white world. At the time I didn’t think anything of it. I didn’t think I was a racist. I didn’t think about race at all. “There’s a guy and he’s […]
Oct
9
(originally posted 8/4/2012) Steve Shapiro has been running the Scared Smart program at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University for the past five years. Recently it has come under criticism for its harsh techniques but he insists the program gets results. “The biggest obstacles that many of our brightest kids face is […]
Oct
8
(originally posted 7/27/2020) I don’t know if you remember the old Charles Atlas advertisement where a skinny guy at the beach gets sand kicked into his face by a much larger man, right in front of his girlfriend, who ends up walking off with the larger sand-kicker, but that advertisement about sums up my […]
Oct
7
(originally posted 7/26/2020) A little background will help. If you don’t see the whole picture you might feel that I’m not being reasonable. Once you see the whole picture there is still a chance you will feel that I’m not being reasonable. Reason, like so many things, is overrated. Every Saturday morning I make […]
