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Archive for August, 2009

Rest in Peace

Posted in Celebrities, Current Events, History and Recollections, News Media, Politics, Power, Scandals, tagged , on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Mary Jo Kopechne
July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969

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Poetry and Such

Posted in Celebrities, Current Events, History and Recollections, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Okay, here’s the challenge. Name ten poems that have touched you. Why poems? We’ve covered books and short stories. Poetry just seems to follow naturally.
In my own personal case, I’m thinking not necessarily about poems but about almost any written output that has a nice rhythm to it. Sometimes, poems meet my likeability standard, sometime [...]

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A Crash Course in Learning How Shallow You Are

Posted in Celebrities, Current Events, Education, History and Recollections, Human Nature, Humor, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I was browsing Faceboook a few days ago when I ran across another one of those peculiar Facebook exercises apparently designed to expose the pathetically low level of sophistication of Americans to the world.
This one was titled 15 Books, and you’re supposed to name 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with [...]

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On the Utility of Ignorance

Posted in Academics, Current Events, Education, History and Recollections, Politics, Power, tagged , , , on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For about 20 years, I taught in a variety of 4-year and community colleges. This is just a partial list of the subjects and classes I taught—Beginning Political Science, American Government, Constitutional Law and Politics, International Law and Politics, Comparative Politics, the Politics of Hawaii, American Studies with a concentration in America’s Role in the [...]

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My Facebook Life

Posted in Celebrities, Current Events, Humor, Politics on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you take a look at my Facebook page, you’ll probably notice right away that I do not have a lot of Facebook Friends.
Your observation will be correct. At one time, I had more, but about a month ago, I decided to cleanse my list. By “cleanse” I mean I got rid of the deadwood. [...]

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I’d Rather be in Philadelphia

Posted in Baseball, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Current Events, Demographics, Freedoms, History and Recollections, Movies, Politics, Sports, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This past Saturday, we drove from Annapolis to Philadelphia to scout out Philly’s historic locations, snap a few photos, snack a little bit, and get sunburned a lot. And, we walked our buns off.
Philly’s primary historical landmarks are concentrated amid lots of tall buildings without historical significance at the moment, but though the historic area [...]

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Eternal Cultural Warfare

Posted in Bureaucracy, Computers, Current Events, Human Nature, Humor, tagged , , , , on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been away from the ‘net since leaving Texas for Maryland, so I’ve been catching up with a few things, stuff you can’t get into heaven without, like a surplus of junk emails. It feels good when I delete them in batches without reading them. And as Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “What is right is [...]

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