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academia, books
This Is The Other Thing I’ve Been Doing Instead of Posting…
05.17.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt’s another paper. This one is about how the Canterbury Tales can be read as a postmodern text. If you read it (and why would you?) you’ll notice a few shared concerns with the other one, but not really. The main point of correspondence is that I like John Barth.
I know this cheating, but you’ll [...] -
academia, books
This Is What I’m Doing Instead of Posting…
05.16.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt’s a paper. Read it if you like John Barth, Freud, or Existentialism and Nihilism expressed as an Academic Love Triangle. If you do like those things, God help you…
Nothing stays buried. This is the central lesson of psychoanalysis and the most important thing Freud has to teach us about the way the human [...] -
academia
Intelligent does not equal Wealthy? Scientific American Shockah!
Apparently Ohio State has discovered that while there is a correlation between IQ and income (or earning power), how smart you are has very little to do with the amount of wealth you have. Aside from student loans and the cost of education, there is a much higher credit card debt reported by those with [...]
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academia, politics, rants
Some thoughts on e-1337-ism
Bill Maher has an article up on Salon going over one of his “New Rules” in which he mentions that 150 graduates of Regent University have been hired by the Bush administration. For those of you who don’t know, Regent is the oh-so-prestigious law school run by funda-nut Pat Robertson. Maher goes on to attack [...]
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academia
The Lexi-Sean: Improving the English Language One Word at a Time 4/03
These are words I would like to see used more often, little nuggets of semantic goodness that I feel are falling into the linguistic cracks where I scoop them up and deliver them to you.
Furl, verb. 1. to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag [...] -
academia
The Lexi-Sean: Improving the English Language One Word at a Time
02.07.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThese are words I like to use, and that I think more people should say as often as possible.
Eyeball- Verb; 1. To inspect or look at something, usually with a higher degree of scrutiny than is desired or necessary, especially when accusing someone of staring at you too intently for their own good. “Are you [...]
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