I highly recommend this very quick read: In Defense of the New York Times (and Independent Journalism) I heard Steve Schmidt’s comments about the New York Times yesterday on NPR. In case you missed (and don’t want to click the link), here’s what he said: Whatever the New York Times once was, it is not …

Yesterday’s report from the Pew Reserach Center only serves to reiterate exactly what I was saying yesterday… apparently (thank goodness!), I am not alone in being skeptical of Sarah Palin. I cannot tell you how many times in the last 12+ years I’ve looked at surveys from Pew and thought, “I should get a job …

My second Huckabee story won’t tell you anything about my unwillingness to vote for him, but is relevant anyway. So, the summer *before* Governor’s School — so this would be summer 1993, I attended a two-week French immersion program at Arkansas Tech University (yes, kids, I was *really* into summer school-ish things in high school!). …

I figured someone would ask about my Huckabee comment earlier, so here’s the abbreviated backstory. In the summer of 1994, I was attending a six-week summer school program in Arkansas called Governor’s School. My six weeks on the campus of Hendrix College were the first time I was really exposed to people not like me; …

Sorry, dear readers, for being so absent the last couple of weeks. Things have been buzzing along here in Nashville… classes are absorbing (both intellectually and time-wise), fall is slowly creeping across the Mississippi, and life, in short, is going well. But let me pause from the normal banality of this blog (at least of …

Now squarely into my first semester at Vandy, I can say that things are going pretty well. I have fallen into a nice routine, which is great, and I can report the following positive developments: Expectations here are definitely higher than they were in my last program. That, or I’m just too far removed temporally …

Today is the first day of a new semester … a new school … and hopefully, an exciting, challenging, and fulfilling new adventure. I don’t have a class today myself, but I am assisting a professor with his first class meetings this afternoon. So, rather than break my neck to get to campus early this …

I’m happy to report that Daniel and I, the animals, and almost all of our stuff is now settling in at the new house in Nashville. After a rushed couple of weeks trying to wrap up everything in Texas, the last few days have been — for me, at least — a very welcomed reprieve …

If you take an inventory of the living, breathing beings who are relocating to Nashville, we are 2/5ths there. Daniel and Penny, the more finnicky of the felines, arrived there last night and are currently adjusting to the (slightly) cooler climes of middle Tennessee. Meanwhile, I am positively sweltering in Dallas. Those of you who …

You know, I never thought my blog would be a repository of the inanities of my life, but then I guess I see friends so infrequently these days that it’s sort of inevitable. At any rate, here are a few updates. Most importantly, we closed on the new house in Nashville last week! The house …