In attempt­ing to track down the iden­tity of a recent inter­locutor, I stumbled on an art­icle writ­ten by the part­ner of one of my stu­dents. I am abso­lutely appalled at the argu­ment itself, but even more so at the meta­phor he uses. He com­pares the atti­tude of the Left to…

The journos at Fair­fax have star­ted a little blog…

… but ser­i­ously… Accord­ing to ravrhi in metaquotes: From a report on the French riots: “It’s been 11 days since two African-Amer­ican teen­agers were killed, elec­tro­cuted during a police chase, which promp­ted all of this.”–CNN anchor Carol Lin, Nov. 6 Um. That’d be…

E‑mailing stu­dents their marked ver­sions may be delayed, as one of you nice folks has appar­ently infec­ted me with a Macro virus (yeah, yeah, I should­n’t have enabled Macros on any incom­ing files, but I did because often edit­ing stu­dents use Macros to do actual editing…

I’m done mark­ing my stu­dents’ Assign­ment 2. I don’t remem­ber it being this much of an effort last year. Then again a) I didn’t have 50 of them last year and b) I wasn’t trying to race against time because of having had a motor­bike acci­dent and delay­ing everything by a…

See, hawk_eye? Paint­ball is bad, m’kay? From The Age: It is alleged all nine were involved in “mil­it­ary type” train­ing at Kinglake, east of Mel­bourne, a claim dis­puted by the defence law­yers as a “paint­balling” excursion.

How very odd. I always kind of forget that vari­ous fig­ures of his­tory that I admire are very likely still wan­der­ing around, very much alive, and still doing inter­est­ing things with their lives. For some reason, because so many of the 50s and 60s counter-cul­ture are…

Why is it that once you’ve decided good stuff is around the corner, it all hap­pens? 1. I’ve just received my Wood­ford pro­gram. Ohhh, can’t wait! Looks sooo good. Ember Swift, Cat Empire, Wild Marmalade, The Bird, Kristina Olsen, Penelope Swales, Sprocket! 2. I got my…

…those who are weary, or ill or merely A Lyttle Under Thee Weather, go thou and read­est the Storye of the Frydge by caval­orn for it is the fun­ni­est damned thing I have read in A Longe Tyme.

Time for Res­Fest again [sched­ule here]. Who’s coming?