It’s Sunday, and I’m still reading Thomas Aquinas and getting agitated over on FB, which seems to me to be what FB is doing to me at the moment. But right now, I want to go back to a different FB conversation, one I started on the day before Thanksgiving, and that sort of dropped…

So, it’s Black Friday, so named in honor of the mood you’ll be in if you try to go out and shop today.  I did it once years ago, by accident, and it’s beyond my comprehension why anybody would want to do that, ever. A bargain good enough to get me out into that mess again…

I am sitting here on a day that feels like spring, a little groggy from having stayed up late to watch the election results–except it turns out I didn’t stay up late enough, because I went to bed assuming that things would go as they had been and the Republicans wouldn’t get a majority in…

So here it is, Sunday, and after a really long time of not being able to take the day the way I like to, I’ve decided that today is it–I do have work to do, because I always have work to do, but I’m also in that dangerous place where it’s too easy to burn…

This is going to be a long and convoluted story, so bear with me. Or, you know, not. When my younger son was in middle school, two things happened:  he began to be mercilessly bullied by a student we will call G, and the school’s health center was taken over by a new head nurse.…

So the term has started, and that means that I’m floating around out here on what I would probably call the slough of despond if I were another kind of person. The difference is that the reason for the slough of despond is not my students. My students have done some cringeworthy things already this…

I was getting into trouble on FB again yesterday because I was intimating, as I often do, that the two sides of our supposed cultural and political divide were, pretty much, internchangable. The article that got me started was not about Ray Rice, but about the Tea Party, and was one of those things. The…

I am having one of those days when I can’t seem to settle down and focus on anything.  I don’t have them very often, but when I do I get really annoyed, and I’m really annoyed now, and it’s only nine in the morning. Part of it is the result of something really odd. I…

I got into one of those FB conversations yesterday that–well, that requires me to write a long answer to something. And because I have to write a long answer to something, I find myself required either to wait until tomorrow to do so on the computer system at school, or just give up. My system…

So, this morning, on ALDaily, I found this http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/08/new-luddites-why-former-digital-prophets-are-turning-against-tech Yet another hymn to what is good about Luddism–the stubborn refusal to accept change as it manifests itself in new technologies, particularly the technologies that disrupt our world by making some forms of employment and occupation obsolete and substituing new ones– Or, as all Luddites, ne0-…