Posts by David H. Guston

Sam, not quite three and a half, was stomping through the street-side puddles of an Arizona spring.  In a playful mood, too, I called out the warning, “Watch out for puddle gators!”
Two years ago, I sent out an e-mail to the CSPO community about my dismay at finding in my one-year-old’s “First Word” book at the time that the word “tractor” is, apparently, an incredibly important word despite the fact that < 2% of the US population still lives on a farm.
September 25, 2009
Filed under Holidays

Answer:  Leonard Cohen, adulterers in Aceh, and Malcolm Casadaban. 

Question:  Who by fire?  Who by stoning?  Who by plague?

April 13, 2009
Filed under Holidays
I'm sitting in an airplane at 38,000 feet and young children are crying from rows in front and in back of me. If the Exodus was this loud, I might have stayed in Egypt. What would it have been like to be part of that mass, that throng of people? And their animals? And their camels?

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