The only overnight summer camp I have memories from was called "Camp E=MC^2." (NERD!) I have seen Wet Hot American Summer, though.

I live in Austin, and it indeed doesn't count. From working in politics, I know I can pull up any number of maps that show Austin is politically and culturally distinct from the rest of Texas. But in the rest of Texas, I guess it's "sucks to you ass-mar."

I don't know the first thing about how to read tarot cards, but that doesn't make me unqualified to dispute their legitimacy. Religious Judaism and Christianity are premised on faith in God. No matter how many years humans have practiced them or how many texts have glorified their name, these religions fundamentally hinge on this logically fragile concept. Suggesting Einstein's atheism was a passing phase is also suspect, especially when the only evidence you present to back his ambivalence is a brief religious phase in his youth. I had a brief faithful phase in my youth, but it was mostly characterized by logical acrobatics to avoid removing God from the picture. I've been pretty firmly atheist ever since.

I am so confused by the comments on this piece.

"'We’re not a category that exists,' she acknowledges. 'We’re in our 20s, we all have full-time jobs and yes, we live together.'" In America, we call them "co-ops," and they've been around for quite some time. "The idea dates back to the mid-1980s" The co-op I lived in was built in the 70s, and there are co-ops that date decades earlier.

Hi Mike!

You'll find it all (from ℵ to ℤ) scattered between "Mathematical Symbols" and "Letterlike Symbols." You may need "Technical Symbols" if you're doing really serious mathematical typesetting, but that's what LaTeX is for.

If the response to complexity we can't explain* is a designer, then that designer is necessarily complex enough to trigger the same questions. So, who designs the designer? You can't fiat the existence of the designer. Even the alien designer scenario just removes the question back one more step: who designed the designer of the aliens that designed life on earth? *And I'd argue that evolution has done a tremendous job of explaining much of biological origins and shows no signs of stopping.

It seems like you liked it but didn't want to.

Texas Hillel is pretty progressive when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflicts. There's even art hanging on the walls from Arabic children.