updated my tumblr theme: http://jimwillis.org/ better? Really need to include an “About” post in there somewhere.

Life With Alacrity: Community by the Numbers, Part II: Personal Circles Unlike the group limits, personal limits actually measure something different: the number of connections that an individual can hold. They’re yet another thing that you must consider when thinking…

Morality: 2012: Online Only Video: The New Yorker The social and cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Henry Finder about the five foundations of morality, and why liberals often fail to get their message across. From “2012: Stories from…

I wish to say something tonight not of and concerning the Chinese and Sandwich-Islanders, but to and concerning you who hear me, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condition or circumstances in this world, in this town; what it is, whether it is necessarily as bad…

Trying not to crack up when my 4yo says “chewin’ chocolate” each time I ask him what he’s doing.

The black spot on my soul gets a little bigger each time I buy produce at Costco.

What’s opened in 07701? Where can I get the salty meats with which to start my new year?

Findings – For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It – NYTimes.com “Religious people, he said, are self-controlled not simply because they fear God’s wrath, but because they’ve absorbed the ideals of their religion into their own system of values, and have…

Thinking about what a flourishing Red Bank looks like in 2009. More culture, less couture.

Single Spot Camping SingleSpotCamping.com™ is a brand new website which offers all land- and lot owners to present their own “single-spot-camping”. The idea is: Anyone who owns land (it can even consist of your garage…