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Desultory Thoughts on Society, Culture, and Higher (Mis-) Education

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Drag

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In the first season of Mad Men , protagonist Don Draper crashes at the apartment of a would-be girlfriend’s bunch of beatnik associates.   N...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Vanity

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Tomorrow’s the big celebration. President Trump is finally getting the parade he’s been after for years.   On his birthday, no less. The...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Flooded Zone

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The tipping point for this post was a required online training for work.   It was a refresher on Title IX and the Clery Act.   Two things st...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Calamities

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I’ve spent the past weeks wondering which outrageous act would prompt me to write about Trump 2.0.   Keeping up with the firehose gush of ra...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Day Zero

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It begins all over again tomorrow.   It seems almost a sacrilege that this inauguration day happened to fall on Martin Luther King Day. Th...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Reckonings

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I have been a poor correspondent lately.   Cascading current events and work have distracted me.   So, for what it’s worth I will write down...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Aftermath

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 There is little to say.  We are truly fucked.  Welcome back to the Trumpocalypse.
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I make my way as a college instructor in a charming little mountain community in the American West. The rest of the time I’m a writer, reader, researcher, daydreamer, film buff, keen observer of the mundane, a sometime flâneur and academic farceur.
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