For those of you in Super Tuesday States…

Make sure to vote for Barack Obama today!

For reasons why, see here, here, and here. For a cool, inspirational video, watch this:

Books and more books

Since John is doing it, I suppose I should as well. I apologize for not posting here more. It is merely a function of a lack of time. I’ve bolded those I’ve read and italicized those I’ve partially read.

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Anna Karenina
• Crime and Punishment
• Catch-22
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Wuthering Heights
• Life of Pi
• The Name of the Rose
• Don Quixote
• Moby Dick
• Ulysses
• Madame Bovary
• The Odyssey
• Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Eyre
• The Tale of Two Cities
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
• War and Peace
• Vanity Fair
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• The Iliad
• Emma
• The Blind Assassin
• The Kite Runner
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Great Expectations
• American Gods
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Atlas Shrugged
• Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Middlesex
• Quicksilver
• Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
• The Canterbury tales
• The Historian : a novel
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Brave New World
• The Fountainhead
• Foucault’s Pendulum
• Middlemarch
• Frankenstein
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Dracula
• A Clockwork Orange
• Anansi Boys
• The Once and Future King
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
• 1984
• Angels & Demons
• The Inferno
• The Satanic Verses
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Mansfield Park
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• To the Lighthouse
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• Oliver Twist
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Les Misérables
• The Corrections
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• The Prince
• The Sound and the Fury
• Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
• The God of Small Things
• A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
• Cryptonomicon
• Neverwhere
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Dubliners
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Beloved
• Slaughterhouse-five
• The Scarlet Letter
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• The Mists of Avalon
• Oryx and Crake : a novel
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
• Cloud Atlas
• The Confusion
• Lolita
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey
• The Catcher in the Rye
• On the Road
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The Aeneid
• Watership Down
• Gravity’s Rainbow
• The Hobbit
• In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
• White Teeth
• Treasure Island
• David Copperfield
• The Three Musketeers

I have a son!

I am much too tired for a post of substance. For that, see the posts I wrote on my wife’s blog (here and here). His name is Thomsen Fitzgerald Lord and his birthday is July 24th, 2007. Here is a picture:

!!!!

Oh, to be in Boston in the fall.

New Homepage

I have decided to create a separate homepage. You can find it here. For what it’s worth, I debated between googlepages and macpages. As you can see, I chose google. I chose google (i) because I already had a google account and (ii) google seemed easier.

Yes!

My new favorite response to a bad argument, courtesy of David Foster Wallace:

“This is so stupid it practically drools.”

(Pg. 89 of “Authority and American Usage,” in Consider the Lobster)

New papers

I’ve updated my ‘papers’ page. New papers include a shortened version of my paper on maximal rationality and the first half of my paper on contractualism and aggregation. Check them out and send me comments.

Slaves of the Passions Reading group…

…is now under way. Check out the first post here.

What do you get…

…when you combine Barnes and Noble’s 40% employee appreciation discount and $135.00 worth of gift cards?

You get a book buying spree of epic proportions:

Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky

Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart

Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell

American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Michael Sherwan

The Duty of Genius, by Ray Monk

Hilbert, by Constance Reid

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy

Sweet Thursday, by John Steinbeck

Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Political Liberalism, by John Rawls

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, by David Foster Wallace

Knowledge and its Limits reading group has begun

For those of you who are interested, The Excluded Middle’s reading group on Knowledge and its Limits is now underway. Check out the first installment here.