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Sometimes, people ask me, "Hey, Doc Nagel! What's your philosophy of life?" (See, because I'm a philosophy instructor.) An...

My letter of the (furlough) day is to Chancellor Reed of the CSU. Faculty, especially in the CFA, have a lot of questions about Reed's l...

Before my Professional Ethics class on Monday, I found a presentation by an ethicist named Michael Davis about engineers’ ethical responsib...

We went to see Crosby, Stills, and Nash on Saturday night at Ironstone Vineyards up in Murphys. The winery has lovely grounds and an amphite...

I wrote my letter to Jeff Denham. Denham scores 100% favorable by the California Chamber of Commerce, and a 31% rating from the Consumer Fed...

Tomorrow is my first furlough day for the academic year. It's a non-instructional day, but seeing as how I have sworn that I will not do...

The institution I affectionately call Cow State Santa Claus seems headed toward some kind of catastrophic meltdown. Relations between facult...

I really, really don't get it. Certain web sites seem especially prone to presenting what seem to me to be incredibly stupid ads. I can...

My loveliest is singing in a local production of a musical, and we invited our friends Jennifer and Andrew out to visit, see the show, and b...

I just heard a story from BBC news about the failure of the Obama administration to launch a criminal investigation into torture techniques ...

I've been dealing with the fallout from the CSU budget cuts - specifically, the faculty furlough and the slashing of hundreds of lecture...

I suppose everyone has made-up conversations in their own heads, and I suppose further that they do especially with people they expect confr...

I can't find a site that lets me upload a streaming mp3 large enough for this track. It's 13 MB. Sorry. If you hit this link to Mysp...

Andrew brought it up, I think. The impact of the state budget cuts to the CSU, and of the furlough deemed necessary to achieve salary saving...

So, the house my parents lived in in Ohio a few years back was firebombed this week. I hope the photos are large enough to show that the roo...

The Suspension of Disbelief

12. Crosswords and other word games found in newspapers. I just love 'em. Back when I subscribed to the Modesto Bee (their motto: One O...

It looks, tentatively, like I'll have a full-time teaching job this coming academic year. It also looks like the CSU budget will be cut ...

Happy Birthday Christina! Here's a link to her song (I took out the autoplayer because it was playing two songs at once, very confusing)...

Paper Cats rocks out! We had our second public performance on Monday night at an open mic night at a bar in Hayward called the Bistro. Our f...