The Strain of Gaiety

I’m certainly guilty of paying attention to the Sarah Palins and Rush Limbaughs and the Glenn Becks of the world. Scrutinizing them to ridicule them. They are the pied pipers that cynically manipulate their stupid followers into the hijacking and re-framing the debate on health care reform in such a way that it shanghais the [...]

Months back I read Dan Koeppel’s book Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. It’s a real interesting look at the banana from all points — economic, biological, historical, etc. Reading the book can give you banana-vision. I was at Comic-Con a few weeks ago, saw a Dole banana boat in port [...]

To add to the increasingly tangled mess of my online-ity, I am trying out Tumblr (see: http://danforth.tumblr.com/) Between the RSS feeds and auto-updating of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, blog, Tumblr and so forth, my computer presence is quickly becoming a snake eating its own tail. Here’s hoping we get no closed loops of me re-posting [...]