Faulty crap detectors

My generation grew up in tandem with the internet, not with it. I think that’s why it’s easy for me to take for granted that most people know what makes for valid sources. Not so, says this article in Wired. Apparently, the kids don’t have great crap detectors: High school and college students may be …

Delightful prose by Margaret Weatherford

Delightful prose by Margaret Weatherford in this series of vignettes organized around experiences with the family car: In Burbank one smoggy summer, when my grandfather was dying, my mother took us in the Chrysler to the movies to get out of the heat. When we got to the theater, the car wouldn’t turn off. As the …