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- A Cup of Tea with My Knitting, Please — A former student on knitting, newlywed life, and other matters
- About Last Night — Terry Teachout on the Arts
- Ace of Spades HQ
- Alan Cross — Canada's Answer to John Peel
- American Culture
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- Anne Brannen — a fellow medievalist, Richard Thompson fan, and exceedingly cool person.
- Arethusa's Fountain
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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)
- Chicago Boyz
- Civil War Daily Gazette — All the news that's 150 years old.
- Clampdown
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- College Insurrection — A Spot on the Right Side of Academia
- Comics Curmudgeon
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- Curly, Larry, and Me — A Fellow Laborer in the Mondoville Trenches
- David McElroy
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- Development Blog
- Diagnosis: Urine — Erma Bombeck meets Tallulah Bankhead
- Disrupt the Narrative
- Ditching the Party — A Playwright, Former Classmate and Cool Person
- Documentation
- Doubleplusundead — A fellow AoS Moron, so, less than SFW.
- Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine
- Dr. Weevil
- 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
- Imaginative Conservative
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- Kosmos — for liberty-loving academics
- Lawrence Block's Blog
- Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse
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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
- Phi Beta Cons
- Pileus — Scholars with a bias toward liberty and personal responsibility
- Plugins
- Poking You Repeatedly In the Face — A Former Student
- Practical Historian — One stop for education and serotonin!
- ProfMondo on Twitter
- Prone to Laughter
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- Regular Guy Believes — A recovering academic and member of the Moronosphere.
- Res Studiorum et Ludorum
- Rhymes With Cars & Girls
- Ricki's Rants and Rambles — Another EduBlogger, Working the Science Side of the Street.
- Right Network
- Scuffulans Hirsutus — Anime, Chibi, and Other Fancy Stuff
- 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: September 2014
Electronic Berries…
Because I’m still a big fan of physical media, I consume my music in vinyl or CD form almost exclusively. But of course, most people aren’t as weird about that sort of thing as I am, and my band, The … Continue reading
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In the Mood for Some Fiction?
If so, you might want to check out the debut issue of Dark Corners, available at a discount until Friday. You’ll find my story “Domestic Tableau” here, and I’ll admit it’s one I felt a little more strongly than others. You’ll also … Continue reading
Meanwhile, In Middle Tennessee…
The Williamson County School Board has a newly elected chairman, a fellow named Mark Gregory. The election was legitimate, but there are now voices crying out for his resignation. You see, Mr. Gregory helped his brother invent a device called … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics
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“He’s Got An Uncontrollable Urge…”
(For the source of my title, click here.) One of my favorite lines from Wise Old Man Robert Heinlein is this one: Man is a wild animal. As history moves along, one of its lessons seems to be that efforts to … Continue reading
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Back to Mondoville and One Year After
Mrs. M’s father died last Thursday afternoon, and the burial was yesterday. He had been in seriously declining health since late spring, but it was still not entirely anticipated. He died peacefully at the age of 75, with his wife … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Family, Why I Do What I Do
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In Which the Student Becomes the Master
In some downtime yesterday, the Spawn and I were discussing the various provinces of geeky fandom, and the conversation eventually degenerated to a consideration of Harry Potter fan fiction. In particular, she told me, there are quite a few stories … Continue reading
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L’Affaire Salaita
The current teapot tempest in academia these days is the unhiring of Steven Salaita, who accepted a job offer in American Indian Studies at the U of Illinois’s flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign, only to have the rug yanked out from … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Politics
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Cheese Was
One of the less obvious disadvantages to an ever-expanding government is the barrier it creates to entrepreneurism. And of course, even small companies that have been around a while require entrepreneurial spirit to survive. But when the costs of regulation … Continue reading
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Dear Universe…
Why do you hate me so? Why? I find it ironic that the activities of a Baptist preacher would drive me to these questions of theodicy.
Late-Night Football and Other Potpourri
The Mid-Century Mondohaus had a guest this past weekend, as the Mad Dog swung by for a couple of days. The centerpiece of the weekend was to be Mondoville’s home opener in football, which was scheduled to begin at 6:00 … Continue reading
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