Sometimes I don’t believe it when I DO see it. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/12/a_warning_system_for_disturbing_college_courses_121885.html

Sometimes I don’t believe it when I DO see it. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/12/a_warning_system_for_disturbing_college_courses_121885.html

Part of me wants to start this blog by saying–what Cheryl said!  And then letting it go at that. But let me try to piece out Mike F’s objections one by one. First, he said >>>“Privilege” is an UNUSUAL and UNEARNED advantage. No.  “Unusual” is no part of any definition of the word in any…

Okay. When I put up that link in the last post, my intention was to come back the following day and outline what I felt was so very wrong with it. And there is a lot that is very wrong with it. But it’s February, and cold, and I have one of those non-sickness sicknesses…

I’ll just put this up http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/this-comic-perfectly-explains-what-white-privilege-is and see what you do with it.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on something that is…not my usual kind of thing.  Maybe I should say it is not my usual kind of thing lately, because early in my publishing career I wrote a couple of one shot novels that were, like this one, very dark. Doing it now, though,…

So here I sit, at the end of February–almost–feeling very aware of the fact that I have been neglecting the blog.  I’ve got good reasons for that, of course–I’ve had a ton of actual writing to do, the term has started, the office at home is in a sunroom and gets REALLY cold when the…

So, from AL Daily http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_1_urb-humanities.html Heather McDonald going ballistic on the state of the humanities, and that kind of thing. I will finish this syllabus eventually.

It is now Thursday, and last night marked the fifth time in a row that I couldn’t manage to get myself to sleep before two o’clock in the morning. Actually, the two o’clock was good news.  On a couple of occasions over this stretch, I have not been able to get to sleep before four,…

So, it’s been mostly all right around here lately, even a little on the warm side, if you keep in mind that I never turn the heat on until the house gets below 50 and I turn the air conditioning on really early in the season. I’ve had something of a messed up sleep cycle,…