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Lies about history in Texas can be traced to the Lone Star State’s own Big Lie: The Alamo

4 years ago

Yet many Texans feel they need the Alamo story. As one of the authors of Forget the Alamo stated, the myth speaks to what…

Texas School Censors All Of ‘Huck Finn’ Except The N-Words (Satire from The Onion)

4 years ago

Is it only a matter of time until this prediction comes true? https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1453778518144389120

I, Borg (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 23) Adolescent Borg Bonds with LaForge

4 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG When a landing party encounters a badly injured Borg drone, Picard is perfectly willing to let "it" die,…

Election ‘distracted’ Trump team from pandemic response, Birx tells Congress

4 years ago

More than 130,000 American lives could have been saved with swifter action and better coordinated public health messages after the…

Happy St. Crispin’s Day

4 years ago

Here's my rendition of the famous "band of brothers" speech from Henry V. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-JuHnflAs

MSU asks faculty & staff to volunteer in short-staffed dining halls; @MSU_Football tweets a photo of coach in a private jet

4 years ago

MSU, instead of asking your profs to volunteer in the dining halls, I think you can solve the short-staffing issue…

In October 2001, I was blogging about nothing, apostrophes, the anthrax scare, and Boilerplate

4 years ago

In October 2001, I was blogging about Nothing Matters. (A teaching metaphor that had a big impact on my pedagogy...…

Thornton Wilder’s Optimistic Catastrophe: “The Skin of Our Teeth”

4 years ago

From a review of a 2017 production in Brooklyn. “The Skin of Our Teeth” first opened in New Haven, at…

The Perfect Mate (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 21) Picard fails to bore an empath

4 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG A fussy ambassador on his way to stop a centuries-old war asks Picard to take special care of…