Jane Haddam

Okay, so maybe just random today. Let’s start with:  dead men talking. What made me think of this is that there’s a new Toby Keith song out there, called “Bullets in the Gun,” in which the ballad is sung by the guy who gets shot in the last verse.  The video is a little better,…

Hi–This is sort of not a real post.  I’m tired, I couldn’t sleep, it’s too early in the morning. But we’ve recently experienced some difficult here, so I’m going to post this, and then I’m going to post the message at the bottom of every regular post until we get it cleared up. If you…

I don’t know what it is this year.  I’m getting sick more often, and I’m getting sick worse.  This last round has felt like a whiplash–pretty sick for a while, okay sort of, really sick, can’t get it to go completely away.  I did get to sleep a little late this morning, so there’s that.…

So yesterday, when I left the house, I was feeling a lot better, and pretty sure I was almost over this.  Then I went to school and did my long day–or almost did it.  About twenty minutes into the two twenty class, I started coughing and couldn’t stop.  And that’s when I came home. By…

This is what I think of as a calm week in the middle of the term.  I used to design courses with an ever-increasing stress level–more work every week, harder assignments every week, tote that barge, lift that bale. It made sense to me, at least theoretically.  First you do a little, then you do…

So here’s the thing.  My older son spent a fair amount of his growing up watching British television, since we were in London.  He didn’t watch Dr. Who, because by then the program was off the air.   When Matt wanted to watch Dr. Who, he had to do it off the dozens of VHS tapes…

Okay, let me see if I can clear this up, given the fact that my head feels like it’s been stuffed with cotton balls. This is the great inconvenience of teaching.  Students get everything, and they give it all to you. First, ALL I was trying to say–so far–about an objective basis for morality was…

I’m at this place again, a place I get to in many of these discussions. And I’ve decided that I must be doing something wrong, because I keep ending up here time after time after time again. I start to outline a complex argument that requires me to 1) Make and explain point A 2)…

Okay, today I’m obsessing, and we’ll get to that in a minute.  It’s a little local obsession, but here I am, and it’s my blog. To answer a couple of questions from yesterday:  the differences between politics and morality are vast.  Morality has to do with the individual.  Politics has to do with the state.…

Okay, for a post title, that was bad. But it’s Wednesday, and there’s a lot of stuff to do, and I have to get out of here early again.  So these are just a couple of notes. First, an objective basis for morality is just that, an objective basis, not the rules of morality themselves.…