Monthly Archives: December 2008

15. The Dick You Can’t Take Back

(Originally published in Boston’s Weekly Dig. This is a revised version.) Recently, I learned a hard lesson. A lesson about boundaries. A lesson, even, about interpersonal communications. A lesson about the dick you can’t take back. I’m an academic – a political scientist – so I spend a lot of time hanging around with professor

14. It Is The Season

Last weekend, Diana and the dogs and I went to my mother’s house to make Christmas cookies. This is a tradition that’s been in my family for as long as I’ve been alive: one day in December we gather an industrious team and start cutting cookies out and baking them and then decorating them with

The View from My Window

That Time, Again

An accidental analog.

What’s So Funny

The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c A Colbert Christmas: Peace, Love and Understanding Colbert at Christmas Colbert Christmas DVD Green Screen Bill O’Reilly Interview

Holiday Season Self-Aware Moments #1

iTunes purchase I am most ashamed of: ‘Temperature’ by Seal Paul.