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I'm too angry to blog thoughtfully about what's going on in Wisconsin . My parents were schoolteachers under a string of Republican ...

Have I shared with you my red-state nightmare? A gunman enters a class I'm teaching in a large lecture hall. Students at first look sho...

. . .except for these: the folks at this protest are bigots and racists, plain and simple. Even worse, some of them are elected (Republican...

When I was in elementary school, a teacher read my class a book that followed the pattern "Fortunately. . . Unfortunately." It wa...

From Robert Reich , on the Republican strategy: Last year, America’s top thirteen hedge-fund managers earned an average of $1 billion each....

Caution: I may be channeling Fang . Photo by Shane Gorski , and used under a Creative Commons license . In recent years, I haven't been...

I have several blog posts in draft, but I haven't had the energy and focus to finish them because I've been thinking about an Unblog...

Just received notice that one of my journal articles was rejected--with a note that I should familiarize myself with the work of Leslie Mads...

Ah, I could play with this world names profiler all day. . . Here are maps of my parents' surnames. When I say my people are from icy ...