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

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Professor Scholar's Responses to Common Student Questions and Excuses

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Please read the syllabus. I’m sorry you are unwell and can’t make it to class.   Feel better. No, I don't have a stapler. You d...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

The Miz Resurrected

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Oh happy day!   The World’s Greatest Blog has returned.   College Misery, dark since February, has resumed blessing us with proffie tales...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

California über Alles

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Behold, a curious item from The Baffler by Corey Pein: http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis/ If you need still anot...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Franz Ferdinand, RIP

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On this day in 1914, young Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on a Sarajevo street, ushering in ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

I'm Still Here...

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See above.
Friday, November 29, 2013

Thankfulness

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You’re burned out already.   You don’t normally feel this way until at least mid-March.   But this semester has been particularly trying.   ...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Reality TV (Or, Millennial Hospital)

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While channel surfing, I stumbled upon the latest reality TV abomination: MTV’s Scrubbing In .   The show follows a gaggle of bimbo (and him...
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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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