Life in the Styx

I do love Nobel week. It's like the playoffs for nerds. Speaking of that, I missed blogging about the updated names to the periodic tabl...

We're nearing the end of the Slichot period of Elul-Tishrei 5779-5780. Some quick thoughts: For me, I share a brotherhood with those...

There are many concepts that are clear to my way of thinking that - as far as I know - have not entered into our general language. My vocabu...

Not sure if I should be scared or elated but blogger tells me I have 1066 drafts of unfinished blog posts, compared to 1699 published. This ...

So, what content can you expect in the contemporary Styx? 1. Sports (my biggest hobby, see a future post for why) 2. Jewish studies across...

I curtailed my blogging when I was finishing my dissertation and - foolishly - felt that I'd be better off writing 'blog' style ...

[Warning: the following will be of interest to only fans of Led Zeppelin... and possibly fans of my personality cult] Zeppelin has remaine...

I have asserted to my musicologist wife that at least in Rock n' Roll (my bailiwick), I had noticed that whenever a band - which regular...

Good summary by the Jerusalem Post: " Operation Protective Edge by numbers ". This is remarkable if it can be confirmed: 1,867 Pa...

This is not good news: " Anonymous Declares Cyber War on Israel, Downs Mossad Site, Many Others " Anonymous is a bunch of anarchi...

Why Good Societies Stigmatize Anti-Semitic Language by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry Never heard of the journal or the author before, so I don...

We finished Taanit yesterday in this Daf Yomi cycle. I'm thinking I should write a post like this when we finish in order to get some o...

As a person determined to stay both sane and un-angry, I stay away from the New York Times articles on Israel.  They are stupid and offensiv...

Barukh Dayan ha-Emet: Chuck Noll, Coach of Steelers’ 1970s Dynasty, Dies at 82 . Noll was, by definition, the greatest coach of the Superbo...

As I've mentioned before, it used to be that being inside on a bad weather day was actually kind of fun. But in the past decade or so, ...

There's a thread over at SteelersDepot about how to survive a Superbowl without the Steelers in it.  They asked the question about wh...

So far, the Steelers are doing very well in the off-season.  The AFC North was mess this year: Bengals win the division but crash and burn g...

How I can prove my bona-fides as a Steeler fan: I'm extremely excited about the hiring of an Offensive Line coach .

Before the Green Bay game: Steelers are a good 6-8 team. [late note, this story confirms my point ] Why? Because in our wins, we've bee...

We don't deserve to get to the playoffs given our cruddy defense this year and the winnable games we let slide through our fingers.  But...

[These are notes I made for the aftermath of the Miami game; I couldn't finish it before the next game because I hurt my back and was ho...