Blogs about: The Way It Were
Across Time, Nothing Changes
Benjamin Baxter wrote 10 months ago: Salmon P. Chase wrote it better during December 1829 than I ever could. I feel humbled and mortified … more →
Here and Back Again
Benjamin Baxter wrote 11 months ago: I have back my laptop, and she lives. Despite the best efforts of my Country Time® Lemonade Mix — 40 … more →
Naked Under All Those Clothes
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: On the screen, Humphery Bogart looks at Claude Reins, the moment rippled with tension. Major Strasse … more →
Life is Ouch
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: My girlfriend argues with and torments me in all the best possible ways. Healthy relationship, even … more →
Not That I Don't Want Dental
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: Today, I was a science teacher’s substitute in an inner-city high school, a school with a repu … more →
She Asked For Nothing
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: On retake days, we usually have to fill out cards before we take our subject’s picture. For teachers … more →
How Quickly Cheap Animation Improves
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: I remember laughing very, very hard the first time I saw JibJab’s first presidential campaign … more →
Educational Epigram of the Day
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: Show me someone who says teaching is the hardest job they’ve ever done, and I’ll show yo … more →
What Does It Mean?
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: Academics, the classification of ideas, and semantics, the classification of meanings, are indisting … more →
Flamboyant Jeer
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: It’s a long-standing tradition in my college marching band to fawningly taunt the other team a … more →
Book Up
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: It took trying to fill three still mostly empty bookshelves to make me realize how anemic my persona … more →
One Thing Left
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: My room has stuff. This is a big change. Not two weeks ago was my room bare, walls and floors includ … more →
Rule by Acclamation
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: I knew this wasn’t a conservative crowd. The district leader asked us: Did you see the debate … more →
You Say Telemarket, I Say Phone Bank
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: As much as I hate an interrupted dinner by way of odd political solicitation, inflicting the same so … more →
Tyler Perry Ladies
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: Stereotypes come from somewhere, and there usually exists a kernel of truth in any of them. To wit: … more →
Truth, as They Ignore It
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: As I expected, there was plenty of Bush-bashing at Camp Obama, if concentrated in that first hour of … more →
Nip and Tuck
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Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: One of the hazards from being a school photographer is that one must deal with the students. For the … more →
Chorizo on the Cheap
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: Without an immediate care in the world, I take down my ramen from the communal microwave, an applian … more →
At Camp Obama
Benjamin Baxter wrote 1 year ago: So I attended Camp Obama. It wasn’t just any camp — no mini-bikes, no horsies, and forge … more →
