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Each of the last several years, my Loveliest and I have gone to a conference at the end of May in Canada. It's part of the Congress of H...

Here's how I ended up spending 24 hours in Emanuel hospital. Tuesday morning, after Lauren drove off to work the day in Modesto, I sta...

This morning the LA Times site offered me this: " State's swelling deficit will bring painful cuts. Where to start? " This i...

The last three years, I've had a great time reading and writing during the summer. I think I've learned a lot, and developed some in...

It's finally getting close to the end of this wretched semester and academic year. Some nice things happen at the end of a semester, and...

Last year, CFA bought 6 units of my workload, 3 for being lecturer rep, and 3 for being a faculty rights rep. At the end of the year, I told...

I'm reading an article by Lewis Lapham in the May Harper's . Lapham used to be the magazine's formidable editor in chief. Under ...

I'm reading Merleau-Ponty's essay "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence." He suggests that a history of painting th...

Reading excerpts of The Postmodern Condition with my class, I was reminded of Lyotard's claim that the drive toward system efficiency h...

I frequently use my own career and experience to illustrate issues in my Professional Ethics class. Today, after a discussion of ethical pro...

In a random fit of public service, I present, for the edification of whoever stumbles by, the basic formats for titles of academic publicati...

I started my college career as a psych major (or, as I usually like to put it, suffering the delusion that I was going to be a psych major)....

Every spring I teach a course I designed, called, unwieldly enough, Human Interests and the Power of Information. It is half philosophy of t...

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. &nbsp-- Revelation 6:3 Super Tuesday is always reg...

Tonight I made some food. I cut two chicken breasts in half, pounded them flat, seasoned them, and added a slice of prosciutto and thin sl...

I'm in a faculty reading group this semester, reading an anthology called Academic Repression . A recurring theme in the book's chap...

Normally, I'm a very energetic person. I teach, write, play guitar, cook, walk, ride a bicycle, and perform most other activities with t...

I've mentioned my therapist several times in this space. I've had a few therapy experiences. When I was a kid, my family was in grou...

In November of 2010, after a brief spate of depression in October, I decided to do something crazy, just for kicks: I participated in Nation...