no loss for words

It looks as if the blog got hacked, so this is just a test to see how bad it is.

Four years ago, Barack Obama gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Here's what I wrote then. I'm not sur...

Pieter Judson 's answer is no. Instead, he argues that the Austrian component of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy was characterized b...

It's not often that I wish I lived in Los Angeles, but I would love to be able to see the Bernini portrait sculpture exhibition at the G...

Lovely Fiancée (once Lovely Girlfriend) is now Lovely Wife.

A complaint about medical jargon that rails against words like "toxic" and "vegetables"... written by someone who obvio...

As you might remember, over a year and a half ago I started a series of posts on cricket statistics ( here , here , here , and here . Befor...

It turns out that, unlike the last time around , graduate school and blogging are not compatible. At least they haven't been this se...

The British Expeditionary Force’s arrival in northern France on 14 August 1914 marked a striking development in the history of Anglo-French ...

It looks as if I might not have as much free time for blogging as I had hoped. I'll probably be commuting down to Providence four days ...