Halfway There

HT to HT This really crept up on me: the seventh anniversary of the launching of Halfway There . I started this blog shortly after compl...

In the state of Catatonia The spring semester ground to a halt several days ago. As usually occurs after a prolonged stint of intense ef...

A faithful parody The more-Catholic-than-the-pope fringe of Roman Catholicism is faithfully represented by the ultra-ultramontanes of Real...

I slash my hit rate! This must be how BP felt after capping the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The Google tsunami is over ! F...

The madding crowd For many days now, my most popular blog post has been Where's my money? It's my comment on KSFO's resident ...

It happens this week My hit-rate on Halfway There has gradually drifted up from last year's fairly steady 200 per day to this year...

Considering a “stupiphany” The secondary school math curriculum used to be extremely predictable in the middle decades of the twentieth ce...

Resisting anything but temptation It was too much for him. Montreal was hosting a huge gathering of nonbelievers and Gollum had to climb u...

Basket cases The Internet is a wonderful gift to the mentally deranged. It enables them to share their warped perspective and grandiose delu...

PZ does Davis—and so do I Last night in the university town of Davis, California, I was privileged to meet PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame. Nat...

Eight one-night stands The estimable PZ Myers of the University of Minnesota (Morris) is bringing his one-man show to northern California la...

So much for tentacles Perhaps PZ Myers got too excited too soon . He chortled with delight when Brad DeLong rechristened his blog , changing...

Four years old Okay, perhaps it seems a bit premature to have a “sexy party” at age four, but Stewie Griffin is allowed to throw such fêt...

A celebration of Fry Days I suppose it was meant to be. We were each minding our own business, never imagining how the stars were about to a...

Milestone & millstone The Site Meter widget told the story. My blog was approaching a quarter of a million hits. It had taken three and ...

Fantasy versus reality Last year I had occasion to travel to Pasadena for an education conference. Despite a busy schedule, I had a grace pe...

Would this be hard science? Few things have delighted me as much as the spam that dropped into my in-box this evening. My prestige as a blog...

A legend in its own mind Halfway There is three years old today and has yet to reach its conclusion. Thanks to Zeno 's paradox , we may...

Pummeled on the periphery Three years ago, my first substantive post on this blog was about a mind game. What would the world be like if yo...

Will the circle stay this broken? A few days ago I received a message from someone at the state capital's only daily newspaper. The Sacr...