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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
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- Book Collecting 101 — Indulge your bibliomania.
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- 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
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- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
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- Harmless Drudgery — A Blogging Lexicographer
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- Huck — A thoughtful blogger from another ideological neighborhood
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- I'm Not Herzog — Blogging from ChiTown
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- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
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- Marc Bousquet — How the University Works
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- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
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- 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
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- Otto's Random Thoughts — Frequent Commenter J. Otto Pohl's Blog
- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
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- Six Meat Buffet — Very nice, even if they are UT fans
- Somewhat Reasonable
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- Stormfields — Postings from a professor at Hillsdale
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- 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: October 2010
A Halloween Treat
A Lovecraftian Scooby-Doo episode, with Jeffrey (Herbert West, Re-Animator) Combs voicing the Bard of Arkham, and Harlan Ellison as himself. While this new series messes with S-D canon (Velma and Shaggy dating? Really?), it’s a funny episode featuring two of … Continue reading
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One for the Good Guys
Long-time readers may recall that I asked you to support the University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature, which was founded by my critical hero, Northrop Frye, but which was threatened by a restructuring at U of T. Apparently, it … Continue reading
Posted in Education
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“*Choke*… Good Lord!”
As I’ve mentioned, comic books have been a part of the Mondoverse for decades. The Spawn is the third generation, and for our final Christmas, I gave my dad a hardbound collection of Vault of Horror reprints. Although I was … Continue reading
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Now, They Complain
The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will protect students from anti-Semitism, based on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. An article at the CHE (behind a paywall) reports that some in the educational community … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics
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Prescriptions for Anxiety
When I meet someone new and they seem like someone with whom I’d like to talk, I either avoid mentioning my profession, or I simply tell them that I write. This is because I’ve learned that if I tell them … Continue reading
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Searched Warrants
When I discuss argumentation with my students, I often use Stephen Toulmin’s approach, which describes argumentative components like the claim (the big idea), the reasons that support that claim, and the warrants — the often unspoken assumptions from which the … Continue reading
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How Do You Say “Lysenko” in Farsi?
From Reuters: Iran will not allow its universities to begin teaching certain disciplines it deems too “Western,” and existing courses will be revised, a senior Education Ministry was quoted as saying Sunday.”Expansion of 12 disciplines in the social sciences like … Continue reading
It’s Funny, Because It’s…
Well, you know.
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Heroin(e)
Jonah Goldberg calls it “Conservatives-in-the-Mist” journalism, those pieces in which an intrepid mainstream media member does a sort of anthropological study of those odd conservative beasts, and often discover (to their shock, and presumably that of their audience) that those … Continue reading
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