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August 2016

August 10, 2016
A week ago I wrote about the most effective and illuminating hoax I ever pulled...
August 05, 2016
I remember clearly the morning several years ago when a colleague from the English department,...
August 03, 2016
Classes begin at the end of August, and I'll be back in the classroom for...
August 01, 2016
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill I...

July 2016

July 29, 2016
It has been hot this week—low to mid-nineties with high humidity. I know, for those...
July 27, 2016
It has been a rough ten days at our house. Not because Jeanne had knee...
July 25, 2016
Last week at the Republican National Convention, the Republicans nominated as their candidate for President...
July 20, 2016
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions,...
July 18, 2016
After the most beautiful Rhode Island June--sunny and low eighties day after day--in my twenty-two...
July 17, 2016
Twenty-eight years ago today my father said a few words over a beautiful redhead and me....
July 13, 2016
The new semester begins in less than two months and I'm pumped! I'm particularly anxious to be...
July 11, 2016
A few days ago I posted the following on Facebook: My favorite sort of discussion...
July 09, 2016
Although I am a very liberal guy, I occasionally worry about the welfare state. I...
July 03, 2016
In preparation for our nation's natal day tomorrow, I offer the following--shamelessly stolen from The Onion--for...
July 01, 2016
One of the most important reasons that Jeanne and I have been able to stay...

June 2016

June 29, 2016
One of my greatest joys as a philosophy professor is that I get to be...
June 24, 2016
In spite of my love of and occasional success with flowers and plants, I have...
June 22, 2016
As is often the case in June, several huge soccer tournaments currently are under way in...
June 19, 2016
On this Father's Day, I'm remembering my Dad with whom I had a complicated relationship...
June 15, 2016
I wrote this essay last Saturday as a reflection on Muhammad Ali's memorial service that...
June 13, 2016
I learned at church yesterday morning of the horrific massacre at the Pulse nightclub in...
June 11, 2016
Upon hearing a week ago that Muhammad Ali had passed away, I posted something very...
June 08, 2016
Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. This, promises...
June 03, 2016
Somebody put a drop of his blood under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons...

May 2016

May 31, 2016
My past several reading weeks have been spent, for the most part, with Chief Inspector...
May 27, 2016
Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series has everything a lover of mysteries could want....
May 25, 2016
There is no greatness where there is no goodness, simplicity, or truth Leo Tolstoy Although...
May 21, 2016
Long security lines at O'Hare airport. A plane falls out of the sky flying from...
May 20, 2016
As I was cleaning out files last week, I came across an essay from a...
May 11, 2016
For those who read this blog regularly, it will come as no surprise that I...
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