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I've been busy again. But two of this morning's headlines have re-affirmed my hope for humanity, so I thought I'd share. First o...

Apparently, someone involved in the protest action organized by CFA at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting captured some video of the event. W...

According to police estimates, 1200 people - mainly faculty, but also staff, students, alumni, and other supporters of public higher educati...

Ah, to be alive and awake at quarter til 5 on a Wednesday morning in Turlock ("Land of a Thousand Smells")! But we gotta go. More ...

My student, Joshua, asked a couple months ago about home-brewing beer. We brewed a batch of porter (my choice; sometimes you gotta make the ...

Not everyone understands the steps involved in voting, so I thought I'd put together a handy-dandy guide on how to vote. 1. Be, or becom...

I finished the mid-term papers, finally, and returned the last class worth of them today. Wow, do I feel better. Increasingly over the last ...

If you imagine there's a direct inverse correlation between frequency of my posts and how busy my life is (as measured, say, by the numb...

It was a good weekend, if a busy and exhausting one, in Sacramento, where we went to attend the CFA Assembly (Lauren always comes with me, b...

I had a decent time in Philly. The conference went well, I survived both the red-eye and general lack of sleep, and aside from some minor ha...

Yes, the City of Thirteen. I leave tonight for Philly, to attend the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. I'm taking a red-...

We've got television. The Charter cable guy came to set us up yesterday afternoon while I was in class. He didn't do a particularly ...

My first take on the "Osama's Dead" story was, sadly enough, to suspect a conspiracy. I don't mean it's sad that I was...

According to a news story in the San Francisco Chronic , coups are going out of style . From the 60s through the 90s, the coup was the fashi...

CSU and CFA bargaining talks broke down for good last week. CSU went to the Public Employee Relations Board to request a declaration of impa...

I mean to write a real post here sometime, maybe today, though I've got a mound of Aristotle to read in preparation for class Monday nig...

It's been a hell of a first week. Classes started last Wednesday, and last weekend we were in Sac for the Lecturers' Council meeting...

This afternoon we're heading to Sac... The Town So Nice, They Named It Sac. (This has more or less replaced my other Sacramento insult, ...

Ah, fall semester. I spent the day dealing with a lot of bureaucrapic details, which causes a kind of brain seizure that only being very sil...

I don't often buy shoes. It's almost always a failed assignment, because not only am I picky about what I want (still hunting for tw...