Another academic career strangled in the cradle: my good friend Tim Wientzin has started a blog, Bitter Laughter, which takes its name from Beckett:

Of all the laughs that strictly speaking are not laughs, but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us, I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless . . . The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh.

He's started out with some bitter laughs at anti-feminists and the masters of war. Check him out.