with lauryn hill and destiny's child both releasing albums on nov 15th, we might be in for a return to some hot R&B...Can't hardly wait!

The only aspect of a person that I cared about is if they were nice, fun to play basketball with or would share their bagg of chips during lunch.

Shouldn't this be: The only aspects of a person that I cared about were whether he or she was...

and "would share their bag of chips" isn't exactly an aspect, no?

a,e,i,o,u, sometimes y and w. Did you all learn the whole thing, or just stop with sometimes y? I know Welsh has a perfectly functioning w as vowel, but I can't think of any English words in which it does this...

Forensic texts provide some charming examples. In one case a woman took an overdose of barbiturates and pinned a note to herself saying, "If you love me, wake me up." Her husband came home around 10 p.m., saw the note, tossed it into the trash, and went out to a bar. When he returned early next morning, she was dead. The official cause of death was ( Read more... )

Why is it that I'm having all the good ideas about things to teach after my books have been ordered and my syllabus is more or less set?

Note to self: Consider teaching Spiegelman's Maus as a way of breaking students conception of what a memoir is...The graphic novel format means that visual presentation becomes very important in a way that ( Read more... )

I think it's funny that Bush wants to end legacy admissions policies when it is clear that he (and his children) benefitted from such and he clearly was never Yale material to begin with. Shameful.

Long rumored to have been living in Japan, Mr. Fischer was reportedly sheltered and helped by chess devotees.

Does anyone have anything insightful to say about the Phaedrus or Meno?

zutroy is an amaerican soldier serving somewhere in Iraq now. So...this is what they do....