I should probably know enough to just leave it alone at this point. But look: I sometimes get the impression, from the emails that I get – which, let me say, I truly cherish – that what some (only some) people who disagree with me want is more acknowledgement that I might be wrong. Well, […]

Today Brendan O’Connor at Gawker wrote something that was wrong and dumb. This is okay. When you write enough you sometimes write stuff that is wrong and dumb. But other people have to tell you when you’re wrong and dumb, otherwise the world gets dumber. So I told him it was wrong and dumb. After […]

Technical difficulties!

Hey guys, the comments moderation system has failed to send me notification of some comments waiting to be cleared lately, leading to a delay in me releasing them. I believe I have unleashed all the comments now. I apologize for the delay.

Well gang, it’s spring break for Purdue. I’ll be spending most of next week in Indianapolis– no airfare! no Greyhound!– at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. I’ll be filing some dispatches from there for this here blog. If my past two CCCCs experiences are any indication, it’ll be fun, frustrating, inspiring, depressing, an […]

You could go ahead and call this post self-indulgent. I wouldn’t mind.

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  Book arrived! Thanks so much, you guys. Off to get regressive….

The weatherman claims, if you can believe it, that tomorrow night will be 55 degrees colder than tonight. So in an effort to spend as little time outdoors tomorrow as possible, I went to the store and to the gym, bracketed by my usual half hour walk to campus. So I was gone for awhile. […]