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In 2018, I discovered Libby. In 2019, I’m keeping track of all of the books I’ve ‘read.’ Parentheses denote the day I finished the book. Bold denotes the books I really recommend. After the hyphen is the weight of the paperback version of the book (hardcover is ? 2-4 oz. heavier). A few years ago…

I missed new year’s and birthday posts the past few years. They’ve been great years by any objective metric, but the subjective experience has been mostly stress and ennui. I’ve been on a bit of a tour of old friends and family. Staying as long as I think they’ll be able to handle my gloom.…

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Related posts: Ind…

The title of this post is wrong. I once described getting older as living through parts you’d once thought were obvious, but now find thorny and difficult. This post isn’t about that. It’s about how I’m now a tenure-track assistant professor at a flagship state university in the Southwest. I started this blog in 2004,…

Stop asking me what Latinos think. Ask a pollster. I can tell you how I feel about stuff, but come on!

I’m 31! This is 11,111 in binary. Omg, I’m sooooooo old. When I started this blog, I was… um… like, totally, 19 years old and stuff. Wowza. How things havea changed! My first birthday on this blog was my 20th. I quote it in full here: I bought my own birthday cake, I watched a…