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The View From Your Window: the Best Geographic Reasoning on the Web

“Sometimes I think the education we dispense is better suited to a fifty-year old who feels he missed the point the first time around. Too many abstract ideas. Eternal verities left and right. You’d be better served looking at your shoe and naming the parts.” –Father Paulus confesses to Nick Shay in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, […]

Letter to a College Senior

Is there anything more tedious than some middle-aged dude spewing advice to the “young people”?  Of course not.  But because I’m writing it down, you can skim-read: win/win for both of us. That you’re going to leave school and be ejected into a crap economy is now a certainty. Rather than say “sorry”–not a wholly […]