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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Why I am teaching like it’s 1990: no phones, no bikes, no motorcars—not a single luxury

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Whether you recognize my subtitle from Gilligan’s Island or from Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise,” you’re still getting the gist of it: teaching ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2025

Random bullets of September

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 First, the stuff you know: the news has been terrible and keeps getting worse. I thought we were a nation of laws and, you know, checks and...
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Monday, August 04, 2025

Ready for another year?

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 So, amid all this stuff (cutbacks and much, much worse), are you ready for another year?  I think I am, despite what I'm hearing and se...
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Saturday, June 21, 2025

AI is to Writing as Cheez-Whiz is to Cheese (File under “cranky rantsmanship”)

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  Hear me out. I promise you that this is written by a real person, and possibly a Cassandra. Exhibit A : A long time ago, I had Feelings ab...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Random bullets of summer research and writing

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  It's (mostly) summer, and I hope your writing is going well.  (I hope that that does not sound too much like the ubiquitous email ...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Random bullets of another semester ends, and spring is here

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  How's everyone doing? The Economist cover says it all, really. Teaching. This semester is all done & in the books, except for grad...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Still hanging in there

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 It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that there are distractions in the country & in academe right now (waves hands in the direction o...
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