
Some wonderful news! Just a bit past noon on Thursday I had the chance to meet my son, Jose Yglesias Crawford, born on March 5 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC:

I'm going to be off on paternity leave taking care of this little guy for a couple of weeks. Writing this newsletter is something I genuinely enjoy so it's conceivable that a note or three will go out during that period, but it's also conceivable that exhaustion will get the better of me and it won't.
Song of the day
"Seether" by Veruca Salt. A nineties classic!