Autonoetica smullyanic discourseWest Coast Thoughts- September 25, 2006 I'm in California on a business trip, and unusually I've had a weekend-long lull with no car and little to do but appreciate the surroundings. The work is in Menlo Park, but I'm staying two towns to the north, in...http://www.autonoetic.com/archives/000325.html Lynne Truss would not approve- September 13, 2006 An example of none-too-careful comma usage in the first paragraph of the Times Magazine's upcoming article on Guantanamo: "He figured it would mean spending at least a year away from his family, managing the petty insurgencies of hundreds of angry,...http://www.autonoetic.com/archives/000324.html Tolerance for some, miniature American flags for others- September 6, 2006 Malcom Gladwell had a short piece recently about the stupidity of zero-tolerance policies. Though it's not the main point of this entry, I can't help commenting on several aspects of the article. The attention-getter that bookends the piece is the...http://www.autonoetic.com/archives/000323.html |