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- World-Class Haters: Terry Moran and the End of the Neutral Correspondent
- The Price of Politics: Ian Bremmer and the Making of Political Risk
- The Duck and the Rabbit: Danielle Blau and the Marriage of Philosophy and Poetry
- The Stage He Could Not Find: Lawrence Kohlberg and the Limits of Moral Development
- Steve Almond: Affection Without Exemption
- Karen Bender: Small Decisions, Remade Lives
- John J. Mearsheimer and the Hero System of the Cold Look
- Arne Naess: The Hero System of the Wide Self
- Yael Goldstein Love
- Aimee Bender and the Uses of the Impossible
- Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein
- Karl Stefanovic aka Joe Bogan
- Sociologist John W. Meyer
- Shalom Auslander and the God He Cannot Leave
- The Mattering Map
- Regime Change and the Misunderstanding Myth
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* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
A Transcript Of My July 3, 2008 Meeting With Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni writes the following introduction to my transcript (listen to the whole thing here): What happens when two mortal enemies meet? For several years Luke Ford, known to Gafni from the Internet as a former gossip columnist for the … Continue reading
I’m Having WordPress Trouble
I tried to upgrade my version of semiologic pro wordpress on http://refinancemortgagenow.net/blog/ but it didn’t work, so I backed up my database and then deleted everything from that /blog folder. I reinstalled wordpress and the latest version of semiologic pro (5.6), … Continue reading
In BugaBonga Cave
My brother, HoboBob, stopped by my cam chat room: HoboBob: Where do the well off of LA go during August? Eve: we’re boring him russiandragon: I thought he would trim the beard too HoboBob: I know the French go to … Continue reading
Sometimes I Feel Like A Shark…
Sometimes I feel like the prey.
DavenCam Is Now Live!
I love to be creepy. And I’m good at it.
I Hope This Isn’t My Last Blog Post
I got a hair cut this afternoon at Supercuts on Pico near Rexford. I asked for it to be short on the front and sides and to be left long in the back. The lady cut it short all the … Continue reading
Irrefutable Proof That Luke Ford Is A Rattlesnake
"In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters!" (Edward O. Wilson)
Luke Ford Is A Shark – Photographic Proof
Here are some never before seen photos from my July 3, 2008 meeting with Marc Gafni at the Salt Lake in Utah. The music is "Ode to the Moral Leader" by a European classical music composer friend of mine.
Ode to the Moral Leader
I made friends through my chat room with a music composer. I asked him to write an ode for me, an "Ode to the Moral Leader." He did: I received this ode via email while I was reading a book by … Continue reading
Lost in the Crowd
After an evening of annoying phone calls taking me away from my book (Howard Kurtz’s Spin Cycle), I leave the house at 9:15 p.m. for a going away party at Jeff’s Gourmet for a 29-year old acquaintance. Jeff’s is jammed. … Continue reading