Little question: Why does mainstream American TV refuse to run English-language comedy from England? I’m not going to say British comedy is the best in the world, or that no American comedy is good… though, of late, most anything I’ve seen that is funny has come out of Britain, not America. And I really,...
Read more →Unlike Tithonius, I am not really into the old Loony Toons. I never enjoyed them that much, rales of the Road Runner aside. Still, I can’t help but be put off by the fact that when Warner Brothers needs to make a few hit shows, it decides to give “a new look” to Bugs...
Read more →My 8:30am morning class on Wednesday is a wonderful bunch of kids. They’re young, so very, very young. All college sophomores, advanced level, and really nice kids. They’re still getting used to me, and my class, but they’re the kind of students I dream of when I am teaching a class of unresponsive zombies....
Read more →Today a student asked me what I think about Takeshima Day and the Dokdo issue. I didn’t want to get into how it’s (a) not a new issue, (b) his country’s biased-assed press (or was it hus buddy who told him the story?) seems to have misled him by making it out to be...
Read more →When people talk about culture of life, but their decisions are based on a culture of money… When people invoke scripture against gays, but not against poverty… There’s a rhetoric gap. And it needs to be used. It needs to be used to cut the Republican party down to the ground, to smash it...
Read more →For now, Trackback Spam should no longer be a problem. Whew. So I’ve gone and applied the fix over at New Sophists’ Almanac, too.
Read more →Hey! In case you missed the nifty Google logo for today, it’s World Water Day! Yes, a reminder of the importance of water conservation and sustainable usage, etc. etc. I remember recently mentioning having read about the possibility of wars over water in the future, somewhere online, and some flapjack American Bushita laughing at...
Read more →Argh! Trying to stop this trackback spam. Something bad has happened to my website (the trackback pings, specifically). Will fix in the next day or two… I hope!
Read more →