August 19, 2021 I once had a friend named George who knew alot about alot. I\’ve been threatening to write about him for years now and since this is the last installment of The Inn (recall that I am going to try something else) — I felt that I had better fulfill my promise in […]
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July 11, 2021 I will retire from teaching a-year-from-now. I have noticed that I am starting to lose my Mojo (after 42 years of teaching). Was it A.E. Houseman who suggested that one should get out on top of their game so as not to die before the name? I thought that moving to the
July 2, 2021 My long time readers (those going back 10-years-or-more) may have been disappointed by my subject matter during the Trump Years — unfortunately — I couldn\’t endure him (or his sycophants) and felt the need to comment on every destructive aspect of his un-presidency. However, I feel myself getting sober after being drunk
June 27, 2021 Dear Trevor, Thank you for taking over The Daily Show from Jon Stewart and shepherding US during the Trump years. I daresay you may have been quoted more than anyone in America who attempted to intelligently comment on the disaster that was Trump. You even managed to draw the ire of Foxville
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June 13, 2021 I knew that the election loss would not spell the end of Donald Trump (even though I hoped that it would). And now, after the failed January 6th attempt to maintain (or was it regain?) power — He has retreated to Mara Lago — but still manages to govern while in exile.
May 13, 2021 I don\’t think it would be a good idea to Woke Sleepy Joe… When I hear the term \”woke\” being bandied about these days (normally by the conservative Right) — I take it that being \”woke\” is a negative thing. And I ask myself: Why would a realization (an \’aha\’) be considered
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April 26, 2021 The Keystone Kops were an incredibly incompetent police force that appeared regularly in Mack Sennett’s silent-film slapstick farces from about 1912 to the early 1920s. They became enshrined in American film history as genuine folk-art creations whose comic appeal was based on a native irreverence for authority. Derek Chauvin\’s defense attorney, Eric
April 8, 2021 More apologies to my readers as I am seemingly inundated with grading this Semester! Just when I think I have an opening to write — I remember student appointments and assignments I\’ve forgotten to grade. I\’m chalking all of my shortcomings up to age (and not COVID-19) these days. But when I
May 9, 2021 So, COVID-19 has been blamed for the deaths of over-a-half-million people in US — but I haven\’t heard much about the flu over the past year. Has COVID cured the flu? Or, has the flu taken a back seat to fatalities attributed to COVID? Speaking of taking a \”back seat\” — or
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February 19, 2021 I asked my students the other day if it was overkill if I didn\’t want a Trump supporter to enter my home. How could anyone backing Trump not have some of the huge pile of shit stuck to them? And I, for one, don\’t like shit tracked through my home. My students
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