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  1. It's so gloomy in DC that I feel like a character in "The Road." Except with electricity and food, I guess. 11:55 AM Nov 30th from web
  2. @dukepress The horror...the horror... 8:31 AM Nov 25th from web in reply to DUKEpress
  3. I guess the news she is ending her show means that #Oprah Studies will be a historical discipline http://tinyurl.com/yer8fzp 11:33 AM Nov 20th from web
  4. When I was ten, kids called me "professor." Now people who are (nominal) adults do so, still intending insult. Amusing & vaguely flattering. 8:10 AM Nov 19th from web
  5. Yes, it does feel like something of an honor. @jacobchr @mattthomas 1:22 PM Nov 18th from web
  6. My column today was denounced at the National Review website. It is a matter of time before I face a Palinist show trial. 1:04 PM Nov 18th from web
  7. Studies in Palintology http://www.insidehighered.c... 2:54 AM Nov 18th from web
  8. An invalid no more! Back to work, finally: Column on Monty Python.... http://tinyurl.com/ybq9owd 4:07 AM Nov 11th from web
  9. Oh, I don't know -- at least there are passages in "Being and Time" that account for this degree of banality: http://tinyurl.com/yhhfnsf 5:28 PM Nov 9th from web
  10. Two weeks in a row that I haven't written a column (or anything else). It's like a vacation, except for the bronchitis and social isolation 6:46 AM Nov 4th from web
  11. Going back to the doctor this afternoon. Being sick makes you boring. The world shrinks to the dimensions of the ailment and its treatment. 6:43 AM Oct 29th from web
  12. The upside of being home sick for a long time: Just going out for a cup of coffee in the morning feels like a thrilling adventure. 6:52 AM Oct 28th from web
  13. After a year of Lou Gehrig's disease, Tony Judt lectures on social democracy, then and now--a remarkable video. http://tinyurl.com/ykgsfsc 1:11 PM Oct 24th from web
  14. @mattthomas I'm sure. But what Marx means by alienation isn't simple unhappiness, so I'm holding the line against that article.... 7:19 PM Oct 22nd from web in reply to mattthomas
  15. @mattthomas Or the terrific horrors described by Engels in "Condition of the Working Class in England," for another 3:37 PM Oct 22nd from web in reply to mattthomas
  16. @mattthomas It's one of those things that would sound plausible to an anti-Marxist provided they have no knowledge of Hegel, for one. 3:33 PM Oct 22nd from web in reply to mattthomas
  17. @mattthomas Now THAT is some kind of vulgar materialism! 3:27 PM Oct 22nd from web in reply to mattthomas
  18. @sivavaid Given how sick Marx was at the end, I would like to think Engels would cut me some slack. 12:55 PM Oct 22nd from web in reply to sivavaid
  19. The doctor prescribed an antibiotic and told me to rest for 72 hours. So there goes my talk on Engels in NYC this weekend. 12:50 PM Oct 22nd from web
  20. I am sick of being sick. Two solid weeks of flu -- now into the third. Enough already. 2:17 PM Oct 21st from web