Nutritionism Demystified
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That’s the upshot of Michael Pollan’s fascinating article deconstructing nutritionism. Good advice, too.
January 2007
Fighting for the Law
“The people should fight for their law as if defending the city’s wall.” –Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragment 100″ This quote was so inspirational that one lawyer got it tattooed on his arm in the original Greek (scroll down). The Fragments can be found here with the Greek and English side-by-side, for those interested.
Alberto Gonzales, Master Weasel
Attorney General Gonzales has been busy testifying before Congress. His careful parsing brings you the following entertaining episodes of Constitution shredding and defendant torturing. First, courtesy of Hit & Run, habeas corpus is not for everyone: Sen. Arlen Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can’t take it away except
Queer Eye for the Stoic Guy
Robin Turner has an excellent examination of the Stoic theory of emotions using…umm…unorthodox examples in his post, Queer Eye for the Stoic Guy.
Short Stories
John Collier’s The Chaser, in which a young man learns the relative price of love and death. Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, a tale of maddening politeness in the office. Enjoy.
Altering “The Contract”
My legal interests and my IT day job seldom overlap, but this post from The Daily WTF provides an example of insanity at the intersection of both. At the end of the second interview they handed me a 14 page contract, a mere review copy of their standard Employee Agreement. The document mostly spelled out
Ten Changes for the New Year
As in years past, I’m giving myself the month of January to figure out what my resolutions will be. A starting point and one that you might find useful is the ToDo Institute’s Ten Changes That Will Start You Off on the Right Track for the New Year. While all the suggestions may not fit