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Facnet is a campus email list for general discussion of matters of interest to the university community, in particular the faculty. I believ...

I could have typed that as "fetal," and said most of what I meant. I teach a course I designed years ago about various political, ...

Is your garbage private? The press release today from the CSU Stanislaus administration suggests that CSU Stanislaus Foundation Executive Di...

I love absurdist drama - have since I saw a terrific high school production of The Bald Soprano , as part of the North Carolina high school ...

I've received a handful of rejection letters from the various universities I've applied to for tenure-track positions. Most have bee...

The 72nd CFA Assembly was held in Los Angeles this weekend, so yes, it was our second trip down to LA in 9 days. We just drove back up throu...

Been a long time since I've added any of Doc Nagel's Top 100 Things 8. Old arenas. I just love 'em. Tonight marks the very last ...

Late last week, just before a staff furlough day, the university's Foundation Board announced that Sarah Palin would speak at this summe...

To the driver who honked his horn, shot me the bird, and proceeded to yell at me about Barack Obama at the corner of Crowell and Monte Vista...

Phenomenology is hard. I'm working today on a revision of a paper on sensation, re-directing phenomenological attention from the usual -...

I just filed our taxes for 2009. We're getting our usual sizable refund. As I was filing, I was thinking about the way people complain b...

Today, let's look at Deliverology Deliverology is the name of Chancellor Reed's latest, greatest initiative to... uh... to... Well,...

The CSU administration has begun rolling out a strategy for dismantling faculty power and gutting the last vestiges of the integrity of disc...

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I'm one of those people who talks back to television. I especially talk back to ads, when they speak to me in some special way, or when ...

I'm not sure how to set this up. I blame the dreams, and Neil Gaiman. We took a brief junket to SoCal during the interim between Winter ...

Todat is the last class day for me this Winter term, because I'm taking a furlough day on Monday. Which brings me to... Doc Nagel's ...

Proposition 8 is on trial. The judge in the case is asking its supporters for evidence that it will, as it was claimed, protect the institut...

I suppose an obvious new career option for anyone with a PhD in the humanities is to turn to crime. I have some skills and relevant experien...

I've been a fairly public critic of my university's administration, and of the CSU chancellor, just about from the time I first set ...