December Things to Read: Post-Confederacy Redemption, Arborescence vs. Rhizomes, A Lacrosse Bible, and Some Thoughts About Slop

I stopped by Grant’s Tomb in Morningside Heights, Manhattan yesterday to clean up trash as part of my battle with kipple produced by entropy. If you are on Team Kipple, Team Slop, Team I-Outsource-My-Thoughts-to-Others-Since-I-Am-So-Boring-I’d-Rather-Be-in-a-Hive you are not going to like this, but picking up a trash bag, going to a local park or public space, and simply cleaning up trash is…