First of all, the blogs of my friends are in the middle of an honest-to-goodness Renaissance:
Vicky’s got an incredible review of what seems to have been an incredible Kanye West concert.
DAT’s on jury duty. I love jury duty. If you haven’t done it, just trust me, it’s great. Don’t duck it.
DAT also got into a bit of a rap battle with Jose. Here and here.
Speaking of Jose, A Moment’s Worth of Musing has been getting a lot more consistent in recent months. Props. A good post on his post-first-year-of-teaching fog.
Chris is on a crusade to make the smiley face a real punctuation mark.
Pete Nilsson is a blogging machine. Seriously, the guy posts more than anyone I know. (He also plays in a great band, Red Rooster, as Mizell notes.)
Patterson even posted a new poem!
So yeah, the friends are writing well. Hopefully feeling well, too. Other cool stuff:
Here’s a brilliant Brooks op-ed about the fading prominence of materialism in neuroscience these days. It’s rife with sentences like these: “[P]eople are equipped to experience the sacred, to have moments of elevated experience when they transcend boundaries and overflow with love.”
My favorite libertarian, Megan McArdle, points out a parallel between Burma and Psalm 73.
And something I’ve been meaning to link to for a while: Some dude named Ta-Nehisi Coates throws down in an incredible piece on Bill Cosby and the ages-old tradition of Black conservatism.
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