I have to say I normally enjoy reading David Brooks‘ columns in the Times. He’s one of the few conservative columnists (although he would probably call himself a centrist) who I can read for more than ten seconds without becoming viscerally angry, and his cranky rants about popular culture like this one assessing the [...]

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From Slate:
Born in 1915, Hiroshi Hamaya began his career studying aerial photography and started his Yukiguni (Snow Land) series, which focused on farming practices and daily life in the remote mountains of Niigata prefecture, in 1940, then followed it with his Ura Nihon (Japan’s Back Coast) series in 1954.

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Rule change in hand, the march for the final Olympic baseball gold medal begins tomorrow when Chinese Taipei takes on The Netherlands (full schedule here). The second morning  game  (Chinese time) will be the host country versus Canada. Tomorrow night I’ll be watching the U.S. team take on Korea, and then in what could quite [...]

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Like a lot of people I talk a big game about my dislike of the Olympics, until they start to actually happen. I haven’t been following it avidly, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t interested. The following probably says a lot more about me as a person than I’d like to admit, [...]

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