The Telegraph has an interesting story concerning revisions made to the Oxford Junior Dictionary. One of the more striking assumptions behind the revision is that children need a special dictionary, and that urban, late modern, religiously pluralist or secular children need a . . . Continue reading →
Culture Stuff
What Do JFK, Mae West, C. S. Lewis, Scatman Crothers, and Shemp (Howard) Have in Common?
They all died on this day (HT: Steve).
E-Harmony Now Offers G-Harmony
According to CT.
Strange New Speech Pattern
For the last several months I’ve noticed people, usually of a certain age (in their teens and twenties and sometimes beyond) adopting what seems to me to be an odd speech pattern.
When They Pry it From My Cold, Dead, Corpse
Not until then. We’ve moved beyond a “post-Christian” society into a post-human society.
Religulous is Agnoxious
WSC student Matt Fray explains.
The Mall: City X
Radio Lab is a production of public radio station WYNC. I just finished a podcast, City X, on the rise and nature of the mall. It seems evenhanded. If you’re fan of radio, the production values are terrific and it’s a thoughtful . . . Continue reading →
Public Ownership of the Means of (Oil) Production?
Yikes!
Fish: No Politics in the Classroom
I wonder if Stanley Fish is defining “politics” very narrowly as “party politics”? For a fellow who wrote, There is No Text in This Class he seems pretty naive about what happens to cultural conservatives in contemporary academia. Does ISI exist for nothing? . . . Continue reading →
There's a "Stooge" Channel on the Web
In between marking term papers, I’m Listening to Dennis Miller’s podcast and he mentioned that there is a Stooge channel on the web. Sure enough there is! Now I’ll never get any work done.