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- About Last Night — Terry Teachout on the Arts
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- Anne Brannen — a fellow medievalist, Richard Thompson fan, and exceedingly cool person.
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- Ball State English Blog — One of the Prof's alma maters (even though they may not want to claim him)
- Better View of the Moon — Poet Karen Craigo
- Bleat — James Lileks
- Bob's Blog
- Book Collecting 101 — Indulge your bibliomania.
- Brambles, Buttress, Sky
- Catholic Coffeetalk — One of my Twitter Peeps (Youthful Division)
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- Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine
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- Ed Kurtz — A Horror Writer and Good Guy
- Educated Imagination — A blog about the Prof's hero, Northrop Frye
- Embedded Theologian — Politics, Culture, Eclectica
- English Grad Student Shaming
- Far Side of the World — A Mondovillian Heads to Malaysia
- Fear and Loathing in Georgetown (FLG)
- Fencing Bear at Prayer
- Fenster Moop — A Quirky Edublogger
- Free Thoughts — Libertarianism.org's blog
- G. Ross Key — The guy who helped me stay fairly sane in my M.A. program
- Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog
- Gormogons
- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
- Haligweorc
- Harmless Drudgery — A Blogging Lexicographer
- Hey Miller! — John J. Miller
- Hit and Run
- House of Eratosthenes
- Huck — A thoughtful blogger from another ideological neighborhood
- I Think Therefore I Err
- I'm Not Herzog — Blogging from ChiTown
- Iconoclast — New English Review
- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
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- Kosmos — for liberty-loving academics
- Lawrence Block's Blog
- Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse
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- Liberty At Stake
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- Mad Dog, Esq. — The Major (Ret.)'s spot in the blogosphere
- Maggie's Farm — A Group Blog of Eclectic Coolness
- Maiden Aunt — Librarians are the Secret Masters of the Universe
- Marc Bousquet — How the University Works
- Maverick Philosopher
- Medievalists.net
- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
- MondoSpawn's deviantART Page
- Naked Villainy
- New and Improved Me — A former student who claims to have minored in Mondoism. See the damage I've done.
- New Atlantis — At the Intersection of Science and Culture
- New Criterion
- New World In My View — A Lawyer Putting Her Money Where Her Faith Is.
- Nice Deb
- Nightfly
- Nobody Sasses A Girl in Glasses
- Northward Contrail
- NRO's The Corner
- Otto's Random Thoughts — Frequent Commenter J. Otto Pohl's Blog
- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
- Peter's Power Pop
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- Pileus — Scholars with a bias toward liberty and personal responsibility
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- Practical Historian — One stop for education and serotonin!
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- Res Studiorum et Ludorum
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- Ricki's Rants and Rambles — Another EduBlogger, Working the Science Side of the Street.
- Right Network
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- Silicon Graybeard
- Six Meat Buffet — Very nice, even if they are UT fans
- Somewhat Reasonable
- Steven Hart
- Stormfields — Postings from a professor at Hillsdale
- Suggest Ideas
- Support Forum
- The Berries are GO! — My band's blog.
- The Blog that Was Thursday
- The Happy Serf — A Former Neighbor's Perspective
- The Misadventures of Katie — a bass-playing Clash fan and former student
- The Port Stands At Your Elbow
- Themes
- Thoughts from the Corner Office
- Thoughts Inserted Here — A former advisee considers things.
- Tim Kowal at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- Transterrestrial Musings — A dextrospheric space blog
- University Diaries
- Unlocked Wordhoard — Medieval stuff
- What's Wrong With the World
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Bad Students, Not Bad Schools: A Progress Report
The nice folks in the Mondoville College library acquired a copy of Robert Weissberg’s book, which I’ve lusted after for a while. Because I’ve been wrapping up my summer term, I’m only about 15% into the book, but my initial … Continue reading
Posted in Education
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Blazing Saddles and Higher Ed
One of my favorite comedies is Blazing Saddles, and I love the sequence where Governor LePetomane is talking with Hedley Lamarr and various apparatchiks to take care of their Rock Ridge problem. “We’ve got to protect our phony baloney jobs!” … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics
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How Twigs Get Bent, and a Recommended Rushumentary…
Rush was a very significant part of my adolescence. No, not this guy. These guys. Really, there was no way to have avoided it. I was a well read teenaged drummer/poet living in what I saw as the endless conformity … Continue reading
What Time Is It?
Time for a healthy dose of surrealism, on one of my new obsessions, Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time. While the network’s “Adult Swim” has long marked the network as being Nickelodeon for stoners and slackers, this new series brings the bizarre … Continue reading
Milton and Marcus Aurelius
I just wrapped up teaching Paradise Lost in my Brit Lit Survey, and as I’ve mentioned, it’s a work with which I find myself connecting, given the past year of my life. Another work I’ve been reading in the past … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Faith, Literature
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Student Affairs
As a professor, one of the things I get to see is how students deal with an increasing level of choice. This sometimes means that I get to see kids who blossom, finding interests and capabilities that they might not … Continue reading
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Decadence at the Abyss’s Edge
One of my standard lines is that I thought we were working-class when I was a kid, but it turned out we were just kind of bohemian. Mom and Dad were both commercial art majors in high school, and quite … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Music
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Summertime… but the Reading is Cheesy
A number of colleges — not Mondoville, but many others — have required summer reading programs for incoming freshman. The idea is typically that the readings mark the transition to college and a new intellectual community. While the idea is … Continue reading
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The Agony of Defeat
I’m not a fan of soccer. I understand that large chunks of the world love the game, but growing up in Tennessee and Kentucky, it isn’t part of my cultural DNA the way baseball, football, and basketball are — and … Continue reading
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Friday Night Garage
A few songs I’ve been enjoying a lot of late… The Yardbirds — “Mister, You’re a Better Man Than I.” Apparently every teen band in 1966 did a version of this one, and hearing the definitive version, you can see … Continue reading
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