Monthly Archives: May 2009

Rant: If you have anything worthwhile to say, then reaching out to other bloggers is a waste of time

When I first started blog­ging, my main prac­tice was to write posts that were responses to other blog­gers’ posts. This wasn’t to attack them, although a few did deserve that. I spent a lot of time try­ing to show how to best appre­ci­ate their best points. I was doing this to show that some­one was …

May 30, 2009 – 4:27 pm | By ashok | Posted in media | Comments (6)

Rant: Is Suburbia Appropriate for Adults?

In this sub­urb, every indi­vid­ual home stands with well-groomed yards. “Neat” and “cute” are usu­ally the best terms for the exte­rior of the house, the arrange­ment of the yard, the choice of flow­ers. I can’t help but think that orna­ment — cos­metic — is directly from the Greek cos­mos. There are chil­dren every­where, hav­ing their …

May 29, 2009 – 4:01 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal, politics | Comments (11)

Links, 5/27/09

Re: Amer­i­can Foot­ball — this Foot­ball Out­siders dis­cus­sion of how teams work with the salary cap, player value in the mar­ket, etc. is really inter­est­ing and actu­ally com­pelling. You won­der also about what causes the atti­tudes of some ath­letes: I wouldn’t be sneez­ing at $2.82 mil­lion a year, that’s for sure, but I also won­der …

May 27, 2009 – 4:40 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

In Omaha

Note: The wed­ding and the singing Col­legium did went well; I know we were appre­ci­ated. Below is a doc­u­men­ta­tion of some per­sonal encoun­ters. The flight there did not seem lonely. Two were beside me, both con­sul­tants as I found out. I got them talk­ing and learned about the future of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals (drugs for niche dis­eases, …

May 25, 2009 – 11:25 am | By ashok | Posted in personal, politics, writing | Comments (4)

Out until early morning Monday…

…Col­legium is singing a wed­ding in Omaha: my flight gets in at 12:10 am Mon­day. Tak­ing some heavy read­ing with me, although I don’t know how much I’ll get to. In case you’re curi­ous what I’ve been read­ing recently — just fin­ished Strauss’ short essay “On Nat­ural Law” in Stud­ies in Pla­tonic Polit­i­cal Phi­los­o­phy — still …

May 22, 2009 – 10:47 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (0)