Student: It is very conniving of your department to have had sold, as a part of this textbook package, a book which would be not used until we reached the present level. You must have known we would lose the book, and have to buy another. All of this is a plan to make additional … More “I will vote Republican”
This post started out as a comment on this one; the original comment is now in that comments thread where it was intended to be in the first place. This post also follows this one, which follows on a CHE article to which I do not wish to relink. I will link to a useful … More An evolving post. Toward my post on choosing academic jobs, this is a post on the penchant for scolding in academic culture.
I was going to use the phrase “on putting your heart into it” but it struck me that believing in it, if perhaps less accurate in certain ways, had the advantage of minimizing the Scouts leader tone. This is another post I do not have time to write today but it is about enthusiasm, actually … More On believing in it
After the imposition of Law 1008, “Trials often lasted five years or more before a sentence was declared.”[v] As a result, Bolivian prisons soon swelled with people detained on low-level drug charges. For example, “In one Cochabamba prison that receives prisoners from the Chapare, twenty times more prisoners entered the prison in 1994 than in … More Prison/Military Industrial Complex
I bought this dress in black, because I saw it in a shop window by chance and knew it was for me. Now I see that it also exists in red. Should I buy it? Pro: I already know it is a great dress and that I will really wear it. Red is the best … More Shall I buy this dress?
I Paul Ryan is truly disgusting and I have to say, this is why I do not like to teach lower division students — too many of them resemble him, and emulate men like him. And that, in turn, is why I do not like the fall semester. I do not have dissociative episodes about … More Des dialogues
Of course, this is where I was while Marvin Wilson was being executed. It is truly amazing to be able to drive up and be allowed to park right next to a library like that, or lock up your bicycle and walk right in. The rabble tell me it is prestige I should want, but … More Perry-Castañeda Library
The casual summer outfit for Republican and oilfield women involves red toenail polish, flip-flops, waxed legs from a tanning salon, shorts, and hair burnished to gold via highlighting. Is this the fashion in your region, or is it just here? Axé.
There is a character in the story I would like to interview so as to understand. I do not understand her or identify in any way but I would like to understand, to be able to see the world from her view. I want to find other literary characters like this. It is a person … More Short story noir II
This blog got almost 2,000 hits yesterday and it has had 1,300 today so far. Normally it only has about 150 and I think the most it ever got was 500 or so, one day last year. I remember when it became normal to get over 100 hits. Have I suddenly jumped? Will it become … More Is it a trend?
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