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Psychedelia

I didn't realize the City of San Francisco canceled its 4/20 celebration this year due to lack of funding (its budget blown on free booze and needles for the homeless, I suppose) and a lack of corporate sponsorships. Corporate sponsorships? In the heart of the Haight? Nonetheless,

Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries

Molly Worthen at the New York Times

Martin Amis, RIP

Matthew Walther at The Lamp

Foucault was a Pedophile?

And introducing one of the themes of Part III of The Existence Strikes Back project: The rise of the irrational.

BYCU: The Welcome-to-Summer Edition

"Non-Alcoholic Drinks" Shouldn't Even be on the List, Unless You're Going to Include Ice Tea and Lemonade An alcoholic drink without alcohol is like poker played for funzies. There are better games than poker if money isn't involved, and there are better

Fresh Cliché

Matthew Stewart at Current

Day Drinking

This NYT piece had great potential, none of it actualized. It was just the same palaver: empty stomach increases effect of alcohol, the sun further dehydrates you, yada and yads. I think the cue ("Why do we like to drink in the afternoon?") could've led to

The Death of Literature?

If no one can focus long enough to read it, no one is going to pay for it. If no one pays for it, no one can write it. That, I believe, is the steady theme of this lovely literary essay that doesn't merely lament the state of

Everything Bad Is Good for You: A Review

This is a groundbreaking book by a clever man who goes too far. Steven Johnson is the cheerleading captain for new entertainment technology. A regular columnist about emerging technology and the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open and other books, Johnson has used his understanding of the mind and popular

Department of Civil Rights Investigating the Prancing Pony

Strange News from Bree October 18, 3018 BREE. Innkeeper Barliman Butterbur vigorously denies that he committed a civil rights infraction, but the Department of Justice isn't drinking his ale. “The record is clear,” says Mel Coors, lead prosecutor for the Civil Rights Division. “Mr. Butterbur committed a heinous