Category Archives: Opinion

Local Newspapers, Report-Generating, Matchbox 20, Trump Lawn Signs, and Oliver Sacks

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Yours Truly

It turns out to be hard to write all the scintillating blog entries I think about in my head all day long when I have no internet in my home. The experiment is going well, though, really. Aside from a … Continue reading →

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“The Greater Idiot Ever Scolds The Lesser”

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Yours Truly

Man alive. It’s Friday and on Fridays I am finished teaching at 8:50 in the morning. Yet today I have to stay on campus until 4:00. The devil you say! But it is true; one of my colleagues has planned … Continue reading →

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New Life

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Yours Truly

We have all been laughing in the hallways of academe because we all agree that we spend the entire summer carefully getting ready for the new school year, and then by THE FIRST DAY of the new semester it is … Continue reading →

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