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At the Twilight’s Last Gleaming (Saying Farewell to a Dynasty)
Maybe it’s the fresh take on the space-time bending and head-blowing implications of Goodnight Moon, which has retroactively haunted my many thousands of readings of that book. Or maybe it’s just my usual interest in comparisons of Rome and America. In either case, I was struck by this passage: The stagnation of the Roman Empire Continue reading
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Automatic for the Not-People
I used to work at a place where colleagues of mine were replaced, one by one, by algorithms. This was viewed as the inevitable march of progress that all good for-profit corporations undertake. So now we have a hypothesis that the corporation itself could be replaced by an algorithm: I hypothesize that the management overhead which makes Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #3: The Blood Cake
We’re fast-forwarding now, past high school, past college, past the years in Chicago and Italy and Taiwan, which is when I had this exchange with my older cousin: COUSIN: You know, when you were a kid, you were so freaking smart. We all thought you were a genius. ME: Really? I’m flattered. Long pause. COUSIN: Continue reading
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Into the Wormhole with Goodnight Moon
What do parents think about when they’re reading Goodnight Moon for the millionth time? If you’re awake enough to be alert, you might consider Freudian implications of the story (as a professor I once TA’d for used to do to a packed lecture hall). Or if you’re a data-driven sleuth, like the proprietor of the Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America: Tammy, Orlando & Braun
Uh-oh. Another lawyer in trouble. A partner with Houston-based law firm Orlando & Braun LLP has been arrested on charges that he committed bankruptcy fraud by failing to disclose a conflict of interest in a Chapter 11 case, Texas authorities said Wednesday. Hey, I get it. Lawyers like Calvin C. Braun, who’s been practicing for Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #2 – The Spy Drop
I was five but remember it like yesterday. How my big sister and I were in our driveway, riding her new Kick-N-Go, and the cool kid who lived up the street came racing toward us on his bike. He had never come to play with us before; I thought maybe he was planning to ask Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America: A Matter of Integrity
Artistic reenactment: Attorney: Hi there. I’m Chris Linton from Birmingham, Alabama. I’m an attorney, but don’t hold that against me. Investor: Hello. What can I do you for? Attorney: Hahahahaha, good one. [Gets serious.] Look, I’ve got a great new business going and the sky’s the limit. How would you like to get in on Continue reading
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