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Letters with Friends
I have been preparing a business plan all summer for my next book. This will mean sending out press releases, and I want to make sure that people know that I mean them no harm in my book, which I have...
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A Rehash of My Old New Ideas
This is a rehash of my ideas on alienation and belief that I took out of a larger essay on Czeslaw Milosz, which I will publish soon. I believe in repeating myself, because people will eventually come...
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My Preference for Business News
I was talking the other day about how no one ever asks me how I make money in the stock market, while everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line...
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Class and Quality in the Bathroom Window
I’ve been working on my first scholarly book on Spenser’s Book of Holinesse in his six book (and still uncompleted) Faerie Queene (I know; how cool am I?). I am going to publish this serious academic...
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Steve Jobs’ Culture
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer...
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Response to Adam Luebke
This is a response to this article by my Facebook friend, Adam Michael Luebke, who is, like many Americans, upset by the lack of response to the Wall Street crisis that erupted in 2008. Adam had been...
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Another Response to A Friend’s Defense
I just posted this on a friend of mine’s blog in response to his defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While I agree with him and the Occupy Wallstreeters that there is something wrong with the...
View ArticleThe Music Man
The Music Man is my favorite musical from my childhood. It came out the year I was born, and when I was very young, my parents shipped me off the the library, where they played movies for kiddies so...
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Welcome Back to Me! (with Changes)
Hello, friends. Long time, no see. I’ve been working on my next book, and I haven’t had time to write anything in months. There are two reasons for this. First, I’ve been writing an academic book, and...
View ArticleMy Three Lives
There is nothing new for regular readers of this page, but as I am getting past the horror of indexing my latest academic book (most horrible experience of my writing life), I decided to get started...
View ArticleI watched this in grade school…
…and I’m still traumatized. The good stuff starts at 0:55 and continues through 1:20 or so. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1zscJgeIg What was wrong with my teachers?
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How I Got Through Graduate School in the Midst of the PC Decade
My parents raised me telling me that it wasn’t polite to talk about politics or religion. As a result, I have measured my life on other (I would say more lasting and important) matters. My family is by...
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Depth of Field in the Pursuit of Aristotle
I was advised very early on in graduate school that if I wanted to get a job I would have to do some original work. So, weighing my options, I slowly settled on the impact of Aristotle on the...
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Why I Listen to Rush Limbaugh
I consider myself an intellectual, so, yes, I expect some blowback to my assertion that I listen to Rush Limbaugh. Even my conservative parents, who agree with him on economic issues, can’t stand him....
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Notes from the Underground
I said the other day that I if you’re not listening to Limbaugh that you’re missing one of the chief drivers of the election cycle and the culture in general. Limbaugh, like his political opponents, is...
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My Last Leone
Towards the end of last year, I finished watching 150 westerns in preparation for a future project. But, as I did when I watched 150 film noirs, I saved a few choice bits for last because I knew that...
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Tchaikovsky and Why I Write Comedy
For anyone who is curious why I like to combine comedy with my deeper thoughts (if there are any) in Poker Tales, it’s because I wasn’t a very good student until I was 17. Then I learned there there...
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Your So-Called Cherished Life
I had a thought this morning, so I thought I’d share it with you. I was thinking about how I don’t want to get murdered, because if someone murders me, then my life is over. You probably are concerned...
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