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…when one of the snowflakes asks plaintively: “so there’s no science without nature? is that true with only science or other areas as well?”… more →
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What does one say...?
rethoryke wrote 4 weeks ago: …when one of the snowflakes asks plaintively: “so there’s no science without natur … more →
Festival of Bad Writing, Fall 2009 entries
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rethoryke wrote 1 month ago: Please avoid opening sentences like these: “X is such an important part of society today … more →
Brave new phrases
rethoryke wrote 1 month ago: I think this is the gate outside the garden of the Ursuline Sisters in New Orleans I had not realize … more →
Contains live insects
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rethoryke wrote 2 months ago: The semester has started, and I suspect some of my students are just ornery enough to award chili pe … more →
A life lesson from DeanDad
rethoryke wrote 2 months ago: “As the bully veers off into the land of the tinfoil hat, let him keep going.” DeanDad … more →
Brightness is relative
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rethoryke wrote 2 months ago: Ah yes — it’s time for the “You’ll probably get a C” lecture for my un … more →
Insert pithy title here -- then sneeze
rethoryke wrote 3 months ago: School has started, and some nights I come home….and I’ve run out of words. I have to l … more →
Not exactly subtle
rethoryke wrote 3 months ago: I know there are people besides me who remember Glenn Close best for her singing, rather than her wa … more →
Things needing done, late July edition
rethoryke wrote 4 months ago: One course is almost finalized, the second – I hope – will take less time! Then we have … more →
Give me a lever
rethoryke wrote 5 months ago: …and apparently I can continue a worldwide addiction. David Brooks has a interesting essay ab … more →
Two academic moments
rethoryke wrote 5 months ago: First, a quick excerpt from one of the blogs in the sidebar, Larval Subjects: However, having witnes … more →
Name that institution....
rethoryke wrote 5 months ago: Or, if you prefer, name any industry or business where the following quote wouldn’t be relevan … more →
You have no standards
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rethoryke wrote 6 months ago: The flower on the left has 'standards' and the one on the right does not Okay the visual her … more →
Do not taunt happy fun professor
rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: Insert plagiarized paper here I tell my students not to use Wikipedia as a source text. They can rea … more →
A Festival of Family vocabulary
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rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: Over in the NY Times Opinion section, there’s a weekend thread running about special family vo … more →
While choristers warble
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rethoryke wrote 7 months ago: Most of them are doing pretty well — I’m listening to the Easter service from St. George … more →
Supporting your local rhetorician
rethoryke wrote 8 months ago: There was a bumper sticker handed out at 4Cs years ago [in the 80s, probably] by Wadsworth Publishin … more →
CME as it seems to me
rethoryke wrote 8 months ago: May I go on record as saying that it’s DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING to discover that a product you wor … more →
