Phillip Blond is an English political thinker, Anglican and theologian, and director of the think tank ResPublica. ResPublica's ideas are shaping David Cameron's "big society" program in the UK.

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, you're okay.

It seems to finally be all over but for the rest of the fall Grace will need to spend recuperating.

Includes Paul's complete "Gallbladder Season" essay.

Ten days in the hospital and one near-death experience later, Grace is receiving a blood transfusion.

Grace has been experiencing gallbladder problems and things are starting to get complicated.

Note that there are a number of show notes and related links on the web site to accompany this episode.

Isaac and I continue to cook and talk, wandering into topics like the last Harry Potter movie, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem and

In this episode he and I work on preparing this epic meal and talk about his summer job, mathematics, The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, Hare Krishna cuisine, and the joys of clarified butter.

Fried eggs and fried brains come together on a slow morning.