I had recent conversation about higher education and my thoughts on returning to the classroom, and while digging through some old files...

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.  -...

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. -- John Webster There is only one day left, always start...

I had an entirely different blog entry planned. The blog I was going write was going to regale you, dear friends and readers, with the te...

1. Under and Overload, Loading In, and The Dirty River Press I t's been a while since I sat down to write about life here along the ...

This summer has not exactly gone as expected. I'd planned on heading west again, back to the big sky territory out in South Dakota and ...

J.R. Skelton, Grendel's Mother (1908) Since I spent most of last week on the northern side of the dirty sacred river, my plan was t...

Here we are now entertain us / I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now entertain us - Nirvana Let be be finale of seem./  The only em...

I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard. - L. Frank Baum Back in the saddle again, as it were. The academic year is official...

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. -- Jean Baudrillard The moving finger writes, and having written moves on....

You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't.- John Prine Today being the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, it behooves u...