…from reposting this, and pointing everyone to Momo‘s posts on this matter. In one apartment we used to move the dining table to one side and try to imitate the Four Tops. The hit sound! From Motown! we would shout. * Other great posts now include Historiann on single payer health care and videos of … More I Can’t Help Myself
Dear Gumdrop Unicorns, When you tell me that if our department has not, within three years, accomplished the things you would like it to accomplish, you will go on the market, all I can really think of to say is start now. If what you want done is to be accomplished in five years, concrete … More Those Big, Bright, Gumdrop Unicorns, or New Assistant Professors
On Bernadette. Rolling into Heaven. Axé.
I knew the first week of my first job that I did not want to be a professor, at least not in the kind of institution – and there is an archipelago of them, rather like a gulag – to which I was now bound. I looked about me and was horrified: all the other … More On Mental Slavery
Do you think it would do the world some good if we first boycotted the top 10 Fortune 500 companies, and then started boycotting more of them? The current top 10, with 2007 gross revenues in millions, are: 1. Wal-Mart Stores: $378,799 2. Exxon Mobil: $372,824 3. Chevron: $210,783 4. General Motors: $182,347 5. ConocoPhillips: … More Toward a Post-Growth World
Now I am writing a pre-piece of my new book and trying not to ignite my usual set of literary academic writing reactions, having to do with wishing I had always been doing more of this, and also wishing that when I decided I preferred to move on from it that I had honored my … More Chola soy, y no me compadezcan. Jacques Derrida. Paroles en liberté
There is a semi-serious test available to tell you which of the seven deadly sins are yours. I lack both pride and sloth according to this test. I am medium to low medium on all of the others. Axé.
This is blog action day on poverty. Like Geoffrey Philp, who explains blog action day, I am blogging for Haiti – land of Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Changeseeker has numerous informative posts on Haiti, with excellent video links. This video shows how to make Haitian mud pies. Mud is what many there eat in the absence … More On Mud Cookies in Haiti
ZEFIRO TORNA, Claudio Monteverdi, 9th Book of Madrigals, sung by Ray Bauwens and Richard Conrad. Claudio Monteverdi has to have been born to compose, his very name is so sonorous. I have posted on this song before. Axé.
Introducing Dr. Curmudgeon. I wish I had had his confidence when I was his age. Here’s the story. I’m 35 years old. I’m going into my fourth year of teaching at a small university somewhere in America. I get to discuss big ideas and controversial notions on an almost daily basis. I get to ask … More On Being A Professor
coldhearted scientist وداد 