Ever wake up in the morning when you could be sleeping in, or trying to get to sleep at night but some dumb fucking song just keeps going through your head. Usually you only know, like, a few words of it and those are the ones that keep looping over and over?
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Filed under: General Observations, Music on December 31st, 2009 | Add Comment! »
Okay… I’ll admit, I’m not much of a theologian. I’m not even Christian… but I think Jesus was a cool dude. I love the way the guy thought, and I think if more of us lived the way he supposedly told us to, we’d all be much the better off for it. [...]
Filed under: Politics on December 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s that time of the decade when everyone seems to be doing their end of the decade thinking, and despite my resistance to doing so, I have done so. When I teach my personal recollections of the history of my lifetime I tend to look back on the 80’s as the worst of historical [...]
Filed under: History, Music, Politics on December 27th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
The quote “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” is often misused. Jim Rome uses it a lot on his radio show. According “Jungle” lore, it was most famously used by a pro baseball coach who used it to encourage his team’s base runners to lead off bases more to and consequently steal [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on December 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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