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How high school debate ruined my blogging career
Occasionally I’m tempted to make some strong political statement on this blog, but I usually avoid it for one simple reason: I was a high school debater, and a pretty good, one, too. (I placed high enough in the Open category in provincials my Grade 12 year to advance to nationals, except that provincials were …
How high school debate ruined my blogging career
Occasionally I’m tempted to make some strong political statement on this blog, but I usually avoid it for one simple reason: I was a high school debater, and a pretty good, one, too. (I placed high enough in the Open category in provincials my Grade 12 year to advance to nationals, except that provincials were …
The fifth sentence of page 123 meme
This one has been around for awhile, and this is the second time I’ve been tagged (the first time The Walrus Said tagged me, but I was too busy to get around to it), so what the heck. Ken McConnell did the tagging this time. Here’s how it works: you take the closest book at …
The fifth sentence of page 123 meme
This one has been around for awhile, and this is the second time I’ve been tagged (the first time The Walrus Said tagged me, but I was too busy to get around to it), so what the heck. Ken McConnell did the tagging this time. Here’s how it works: you take the closest book at …
Photo of the Day that was Actually Taken Yesterday: Night Lights
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Monday, Monday
From the Mamas and the Papas’ “Monday, Monday” to the Carpenters’ “Rainy Days and Mondays” to the Boomtown Rats’ supremely creepy “I Don’t Like Mondays,” the first day of the work and school week has been vilified as a day of depression. But new research shows that people’s moods don’t really change that much over …
Photo of the Day: Mr. Peanut Descends from On High
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Research shows conservatives are nicer than liberals
I work in the arts, so I’m surrounded by people who (often without giving it much thought, I suspect) would call themselves politically liberal (usually, at least based on their Facebook profiles, “very liberal”). Myself, I’m more a middle-of-the-road distrustful-of-extremes kind of guy (and I have the test results to prove it!). If there’s one …
Hope for the future
One more post about my time as writer-in-residence at Michael A. Riffel High School. I was thrilled, after I gave my usual presentation in an advanced placement English class, to be asked by a student, “So, which of the Big Three is your favorite?” And, yes, he meant Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke, all of which …
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