Wandering

Things have been quiet, and I’m still trying to put my finger on way. Perhaps it’s the weather — after three perfect spring days, I awoke this morning to sound of car tires on wet pavement and an even coating of snow of ground. I rode home yesterday in a t-shirt and pants, and now, […]

Bucks for Bikes

Hat Tip: Eli Congress is considering a tax break for employers and monthly compensation for bicycle commuters. I’ll be watching this closely. I’m also curious what sort of stipulations will be attached should the bill pass (do you have to ride five days a week?).

Religion in the Public Square, Literally

This post was originally intended for the Dialogical Coffee House, as a long update to my original post there about the arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday regarding the legality of the display of the Ten Commandments in public spaces. Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick has weighed in on this afternoon’s arguments about the public display of […]

On Certainty

Brian Weatherson, Crooked Timber contributor, has a interesting post about a bit of a tiff between Richard Rorty and Scott Soames that started as book critiques and morphed into ad hominen attacks and academic swipes. One of the concepts in dispute is the growing study of vagueness (non-philosophers, click the link at your own peril). […]

Winter, Again

Here we are, in the home stretch to spring, when Old Man Winter rears his head again. It seems we’ve been spared the massive snowstorm much of the East has suffered, but we still have lots of wet snow, chilly temperatures, and high winds. The weather forced us home from Philadelphia a day early (I […]