October 29, 2004

Hello, world

Posted by BillG

Let me intoduce myself. I am Bill Gardner and I live in Columbus, Ohio. I asked the Crooked Timber folks if I could guest blog on the election. I am a new Ohio voter, having just moved to the Ohio State University faculty last year. It’s possible that Ohio could prove to be the Gettysburg of the 2004 vote. If so, Columbus would be Cemetery Ridge. I’ll try to tell you what it looks like from here.

I don’t have any qualifications for this, other than being fascinated by this place and time. I’m a quantitative psychologist doing medical research in the OSU Pediatrics Department. I don’t know anything about philosophy, economics, or political theory (or cold temperature physics, or…). I’m such a dork that when I had the chance as a college freshman to take a class on The theory of justice from Rawls his own self, I passed because I thought his voice would put me to sleep. If only that was the worst educational choice I ever made.

Posted on October 29, 2004 02:46 PM UTC
Comments

Life is understood backwards, and lived forwards, or so one long dead dude said.

But about the election in Ohio? What’s happening in the Short North?

Posted by decon · October 29, 2004 06:55 PM

Borges came to my college to give a talk and I didn’t go. doh!

Posted by Joe O · October 29, 2004 09:27 PM
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