Monthly Archives: October 2005

…is that it’s not durable enough. I think that anyone who knows me is willing to agree that I’m rather hard on my personal possessions. Maybe I really am an agent of localized entropy; maybe I’m just careless. But things … Continue reading →

The (anonymized) caption to a photo in the student paper here, depicting a young woman taking part in a recent blood drive: DONER: A $SCHOOL_NAME student gives blood. Leaving aside the fact that it’s a banal and self-evident caption which … Continue reading →

Via Orcinus: Various federal legislations are being introduced to change the definitions of U.S. citizenship; currently anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically an American citizen (as are some others, such as Yr. Corresp.), including those children born to immigrants, … Continue reading →