Happy Birthday, and keep up the good work!

Josh Marshall of TPM turned 39 today. He said:
I can’t tell whether that number sounds newly old to me or not. It seems a touch alien to me in a way that 37 and 38 didn’t. But as Seneca says, Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling. So I [...]

Northern Illinois University

What brings people to shoot others at random? And why, of all places, on a university campus?
Apparently the shooter was a former graduate student. And given what grad school does to some people, somehow it doesn’t entirely surprise me. I loved grad school, but it was also an incredible grind on the [...]