Jan
06
2007
University Diaries — English faculty — says:
How much dignity can a writer have when he can’t spell ‘its’? It may seem a small thing, but when your rhetoric’s grandiose — all about your honor and your dignity and the excellence of your education — and you spell like a third-grader, the reader laughs, and dignity […]
Jan
06
2007
KC Johnson’s promised article is posted, and in it, he raises some points I find disturbing. First, we have Assistant Professor Kim Curtis, who is at the center of the lawsuit:
The basics of the allegations are as follows: in a spring 2006 class, Curtis taught two members of the lacrosse team, one of whom was […]
Jan
06
2007
Yeah, okay, it’s January, and I grant it may seem to be odd timing for barbecue. However, I have leftover bourbon from Christmas (I never drink alcohol in even minute amounts, so that’s not an option) I need to use, and we’re having an unseasonably warm period. And barbecue the way I think of barbecue […]
Jan
06
2007
but wouldn’t you think the dextrosphere should have learned something from the fauxtography scandals? Like maybe to be skeptical of photographs?
Apparently not.