Squishy Little Machines
lsujp
- Location
- Louisiana, United States
- Birthday
- January 12
- Title
- Academic
- Bio
- •An inhabitant of southern Louisiana, aka the northernmost banana republic, since 1994.
•Does anybody read the profiles?
MY RECENT POSTS
- Public intellectuals for a
culture with no attention span
April 06, 2009 08:02PM - The following universities can
kiss my butt
April 04, 2009 10:01PM - Gustav was a hell of a
hurricane, but reruns? Nah.
March 26, 2009 09:10PM - When Banks compete...
March 07, 2009 06:56PM - Congress in the Age of
Bulworth
March 03, 2009 03:14PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “An important piece of
public art, worth more than
all the TV
ads on the topic
rol…”
October 01, 2009 06:31PM - “Where to start.
Louisiana is kind of like
Apartheid South
Africa--the
massive und…”
May 14, 2009 07:27AM - “Here's how you can tell
that Star Trek is science
fiction:
Starfleet is a
hierarc…”
May 11, 2009 05:49PM - “Gwool--
I grew up in
Massachusetts in the '60s and
'70s in a union
blue-collar
hou…”
April 28, 2009 09:43PM - “There is evidence that a
large part of FDR's liberal
legacy
is the result of
his…”
April 07, 2009 05:17PM
Lsujp's Links
The lights just flickered for the first time. We're about to lose power.
Gustav will hit us with his right shoulder this afternoon. There will be hurricane-force winds for a while, then tropical storm-force winds for the rest of the day.
A friend of mine from college blogged the question… Read full post »
I just read Cintra Wilson's article about Code Pink in That Other Salon (see http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/17/code_pink/index.html) As an introvert, things like public protests in the galleries of Congress make me uncomfortable, but comfort seems like something we have a surfeit of… Read full post »
So here it is, Independence Day no. 232. Today I celebrate everyone who ever saw America as a road, not a village.
Walt Whitman, for example. His "Leaves of Grass" is the first great geographic epic of America. A proper reading of his poems would involve hundreds of readers… Read full post »
Lsujp's Favorites
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fingerlakeswanderer
Kalpana Mohan
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Farhad ManjooUpdates
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Why vote?
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The National Debt Clock, 22 years later
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Romney Sets Sept. 3rd for Moderate Pivot
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New Writers of Scientific Imagination
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Racial profiling would reduce black gun violence/deaths
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Announcing the Salon-Alternet Investigative Fund
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Social Media and Sociology
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"This American Life" offers Painful, Necessary Retraction
Salon.com