So I’m back at The Citadel, getting ready for a new year of the old job — medieval literature professor and all that — but I come back from Colorado with a new job, too. The preparation for it has been a big reason for my silence this summer, in …
Life is grand. We’re south of Montrose, Colorado now, in the last gasps of our western excursion for the year. Tomorrow we begin to drive east. Not sure how long it’ll take to get back to Charleston (and thus back to some normalcy in my life and around this website). …
Wow. It’s hard to believe it’s really been a month since I posted anything here, but, well, on the other hand, I have been pretty busy. I’m in Colorado at the moment. That begins to point toward the reasons for my quiet. My month of June was greatly discombobulated by …
David Brooks, who writes for the New York Times, has been one of my favorite social and political commentators for quite some time. I first came across him on PBS’s wonderful Newshour, where in political commentary he’s the conservative counterpart to the liberal Mark Shields. One of the things I’ve …
The Wife recently introduced me to Tim Minchin, who is, well, brilliant. He’s also an outspoken atheist, a rather well-read intellectual, and occasionally fairly vulgar. Oh, and he’s often very funny. Not sure what it means, though, that the video link she sent along to expose me to Mr. Minchin …