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- Embedded Theologian — Politics, Culture, Eclectica
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- 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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- 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.
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- NRO's The Corner
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- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
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- Silicon Graybeard
- Six Meat Buffet — Very nice, even if they are UT fans
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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: August 2012
Taranto and the Mad Dog
It’s to James Taranto I turn this afternoon; although I typically read him for the entertainment value, there’s usually a solid core in his “Best of the Web” column as well. One of the Mad Dog’s pet memes is the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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Woo-Hoo! It’s the 1% for Me!
No longer need I keep raking in the sweet, sweet blogcash from you, my readers simply to keep myself supplied with the jelly stuff I scrape off of tinned Vienna sausages! I’m headed for Easy Street, or at least Reasonably … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
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But None Dare Call It Bias
National Assoc. of Scholars Prez Peter Wood had a blog post at the Chronicle of Higher Ed yesterday in which he posts that Ohio State prof Brian McHale invited his colleagues to open their classrooms in the weeks ahead to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics
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QotD: Early Edition
WaPo blogger Jennifer Rubin explores ten myths about conservatives, and there’s some good stuff there. As a tour down my Facebook feed is filled with many of my academic friends spraying bile like punctured gallbladders, I thought it might be … Continue reading
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Please Let this Be a Joke…
I hope I’m being punked, here. Three-year-old Hunter Spanjer is deaf. He attends a preschool in Grand Island, NE. But there seems to be a problem. When he signs his name, he uses a sign that looks like a gun … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Politics
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Five Stars, General
Brian Lindenmuth, my editor at Snubnose, posed a question on Facebook yesterday (and now at his blog) that I thought was interesting: Devils advocate question[…]: If I (this is Brian) paid money for reviews and as a result your books … Continue reading
Posted in Broken Glass Waltzes, Culture
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A Squirrelly Sunday
I was catching up on my reading around noon when Mrs. M came in, holding her hands in front of her, one atop the other, like an oyster’s shell. But she wasn’t carrying a pearl. What she had was a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family
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Raking In That Sweet, Sweet Blogcash…
Some time back, I mentioned that the longtime friends of this blog at Legal Insurrection have launched an academically-themed sister blog, College Insurrection (which you’ll find in the blogroll). Well, apparently others have noticed as well. CI reports that a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics
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There is One Less Giant in the World
Neil Armstrong has died. Farewell to one of my earliest heroes. I fear we shall not see his like again.
Posted in Culture
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Contempt? Really?
Mark Twain is reported to have said. “Use the right word — not its second cousin.” I resort to this remark fairly often when going over papers with my freshpeeps. But of course, we all channel Mrs. Malaprop from time … Continue reading
