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Day off

After the fourth all-day Saturday class in June (i.e., yesterday), when I wasn’t feeling well, I collapsed at home and decided I’d take today off. And I have. I’ll need to gear up tomorrow morning for a day of catch-up, but there are only a few things to fix on tomorrow’s EPAA article, and without […]

Immature Parents Department

… and sometimes I’m right. I think my early skepticism about the Gloucester, Massachusetts, story of a pregnancy pact among teenage girls is being borne out. So, in celebration, somewhat, from xkcd (license), the following: .

A big, hairy erratum

There are a few disadvantages of writing a blog. People who wonder why I haven’t gotten around to their work discover what I’ve been doing instead at certain moments (though I’ve never had a student who has decided that she or he really wants me grading their paper at 6:09 am). Without someone else to […]

Department of Unfathomable Nostalgia

From the young (or at least ahistorically minded) Fordham Foundation staffer Liam Julian comes this too-credulous reporting: [A] Douglass High School alumnus called in [to a radio show] to say that when he was enrolled, in the early 1970s, bad behavior and teen pregnancy were actively stigmatized. Hmmn… maybe this alumnus was thinking just of […]

I don’t need this excitement, honestly

2:37 Apparently, a man with a rifle was spotted near a USF Tampa campus building several hundred yards from here. We were warned to stay away from that building, and while there’s been no all-clear sign, someone in our building with a line of sight to that space says that the law-enforcement cordons and personnel […]