Entries Categorized as 'Absolutely Academe'

Get Out the Champagne!

March 7, 2010

VDH has a cheery little essay up about the fun times ahead in my beloved Golden State.
Don’t look at me like that! It’s a fun article. It’ll make you whistle a happy tune!
Come on. Trust me, Charlie Brown. This time, the football stays in place right till your foot hits it way up into [...]

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Broken English

May 13, 2009

Well, let’s see, now: Neo has weighed in on the Definite Article Pronunciation/thee-thuh controversy—the meme that Anchoress started, and I responded to. Neo fully supports the custom of using “thee” when the following word begins with a vowel. I had not wanted to think that I did that, but as I listen to myself talk [...]

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“My One Regret About that European Tour,” I Remark . . .

March 3, 2009

“is that we stayed on the Continent. And never mind that I had to get into a knock-down drag-out fight with Jack in order to get him to stay in France for more than three nights after he decided he didn’t like Paris: but I’ll remember that night in the countryside—and, oh, Gosh, the food, [...]

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“My Goodness,” I Remark. “You Really Spoil Me.”

March 2, 2009

“That’s the whole point of these trips,” David Linden replies.
“Oh, right!” I respond. “I see: you and your family get to spoil me, and I get to be spoiled. Something in it for everyone.” And I feel no shame, since Baltimore is always the vacation part of my annual “vacation.”
* * *
Earlier [...]

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I Am Literally Trying to Coax Myself into Going Down to the Bar.

February 28, 2009

And I can’t do it, despite having overslept today.
I’m just . . . very, very tired. No, not hung-over, though I probably ought to have, you know—counted, last night; I did wake up a bit parched.
I’m just ready for CPAC to be over, despite this being my favorite event of the year. (Well, [...]

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Remembering Daniel Pearl

February 3, 2009

And attempting to remember that terrorism is wrong. As in: wrong.

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Jeralyn Has Some Thoughts

February 1, 2009

. . . on the collapse of the Pajamas Media advertising network, effective in April of this year.
So does Ann Althouse, whose point about the focus on PJM TV is probably correct: video is not something one can discreetly watch in a cubicle while having one’s mid-morning bagel break at work. (And even those of [...]

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It Wasn’t Me.

January 10, 2009

It was my nose: it found another book, and dived in. This time it’s Professor Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions, which encapsulates rather perfectly many of the philosophical differences behind what we call “liberalism” and “conservatism” today.
There is, among progressives, a long and abiding belief in the perfectibility of human nature, which leads many [...]

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Education Reform

December 1, 2008

I don’t have too much to add, except that we live in the closest thing to a classless society, and I’d love to see more attention paid to trade schools, wherein instead of going to colleges (on the gamble that this might help them to get a job), students might learn actual job skills.
This is [...]