The Iraq War “ends,” but: The final drawdown will leave behind thousands of private security contractors and State Department employees. “As promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,” Obama said during his announcement. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” Is … More A Privatized War
Before this semester began I was told I could not write a major grant proposal, do major administrative work, and teach five courses. I could have said no to the grant proposal and canceled my seminar, and I could have, although it would have caused major trouble, wormed my way out of the administrative work. … More On “Protecting Time”
I do not agree, really, but I am charmed. We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our … More A Petition from 1845
I was at a reading the other day by a famous writer with a good vita who is writing every day but declared he would not rush his book. He also said he had never submitted for publication anything he thought he could still improve upon. This attitude has not kept him from publishing but … More High Degrees of Perfection
I have spent weeks on this weblog telling some assistant and associate professors with lots of research time and resources to stop trying to discourage the rest of us by telling us we must suffer in solidarity with the suffering they allege to be undergoing due to the challenge of writing, and in case the … More Martin Seligman
The pictures in this video do not all go with the song, since New Orleans is not Cajun. Still they are interesting. I am posting all these old songs since we are having elections soon. My former student, un vrai Cadjin de Pont-Breaux, posts on Facebook from San Francisco: Dissatisfied with living in the 1930s … More Louisiana 1930s
You should wear a camel’s hair jacket. At a medium sized meeting two administrators were wearing cheap suits and also chewing gum, even while presenting. Yes, this made them seem like used car salespeople. I looked at one professor because he spoke a few times, and then kept looking because I was trying to analyze … More Convention Wear
The lyrics posted with this song are not actually those being sung, but they are more interesting. Oh, c’est malheureux chère C’est malheureux te voir Autant dans les douleurs. Oh, c’est tout le temps dur à ton Pop Ta Mom t’a donnée là je va’s jamais oublier ça. Oh, rappelle-toi de la fois J’étais t’amener … More Angelas LeJeune
Axé.
Le Blues de Texas: J’ai parti pour aller dans le Texas (I left to go to Texas) J’ai passé-z-a Eunice, m’acheter un pain de 5 sous. (I passed by Eunice, to buy 5 cents worth of bread) J’ai mange la moitie pour mon dejeuner (I had half of it for breakfast) J’ai gardé l’aut’ moitie … More Dennis McGee
