digital emunction » Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:00:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photos from La Paz Another batch of Bolivia pictures, this time from La Paz. See below the fold for individual images, or click here for a slideshow.

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/09/photos-from-la-paz/ Photos from Southern Bolivia Over the holidays I was lucky enough to make a return trip to Bolivia, and over the next couple of days I’ll be posting some photos I took there.

The first set is from the southern part of the country, where…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/08/photos-from-southern-bolivia/ Tom Geoghegan Takes the 17th A couple of weeks ago, Joel wrote that “few polit­i­cal respon­si­bil­i­ties strike me as abso­lutist and unde­mo­c­ra­tic as that of a gov­er­nor appoint­ing a U.S. Sen­a­tor to office in the case of a vacant Senate seat.” In today’s Times Tom Geoghegan argues that…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/07/tom-geoghegan-takes-the-17th/ Michael Robbins in the New Yorker Given his fame locally as an agitator for the apostrophe rights of terminal sibilants and abroad as a defender of my middle initial, I would be remiss were I not to note that Michael Robbins has a poem in this week’s New Yorker.…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/07/michael-robbins-in-the-new-yorker/ Merry Christmas! Happy holidays to everyone out there!

I’ll be offline until January 7 or so, but check back anyway, as there’s a good chance my new comrades will keep things hopping here in the interim. For now, I leave you–and especially my…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/25/merry-christmas/ Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Future Chairman After looking over Seth Abramson’s recent series of posts on poetry’s relevance, I think I finally figured out what he’s up to: he’s laying the groundwork for a future run at NEA Chairman. To test the theory, I put together a little quiz called…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/21/ladies-and-gentlemen-your-future-chairman/ A World Gone Madoff Paul Krugman suggests an answer to an “obvious question” that I’ve been wondering about: “How different, really, is [Bernard] Madoff’s tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?”:

Consider the hypothetical example of a money manager who leverages up…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/19/a-world-gone-madoff/ On Corporate Looting, Past, Present, and Probably Future Yves Smith, God bless her righteous soul, is in high dudgeon this morning over a New York Times story about executive compensation:

Why is no one willing to call things by their proper names, and instead resort to euphemism and double-speak?

A New York…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/18/on-corporate-looting-past-present-and-probably-future/ Dangerous Places to Live

A service post for anyone with a thought to move, brought to you by the friendly folks here at digital emunction:

A new study by Kevin A. Borden and Susan L. Cutter in the International Journal of Health Geographics includes this graphic, which…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/18/dangerous-places-to-live/ Consider Me Convinced This morning I expressed hesitation about Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 on account of my experience with The Savage Detectives. This afternoon, Wyatt Mason laid those worries to rest:

There are many ways of explaining the sudden, stratospheric popularity of Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. At his…

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