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Happy Father’s Day — Favorite TV Dad
This is a great way to honor Father’s Day — courtesy of Connecticut Wit. My favorite is Martin Lane (William Schallert) from The Patty Duke Show (1963-1966).
Who is your favorite TV Dad?
Coverage, Uncoverage, and the purpose of Graduate History Courses
The last couple of days I’ve been in knots because my new graduate history seminar on Sexuality, Gender, and Health in Modern U.S. has only seven students in it — I need a minimum of nine for it to run. I’ve sent out appeals to colleagues to encourage students to sign up for the course. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Interview Horror Stories
Just read some hair-raising tales about job interviews at Historiann and Squadratomagico, so I thought I would add a few of my own — all true.
Interviewers: Don’t schedule interviews every fifteen minutes and then fall so hopelessly behind that you have several candidates in the “pit” waiting area at the same time.
Interviewees: Please recognize that [...]
Happy New Year
Hi Readers,
I thought I was only kidding a few posts ago when I said this was a slow blog, but somehow the rest of December got away from me! Now that the holidays, grading, and an awesome trip to Ireland are now past, I plan to have more regular posts, at least until the next [...]
Post Thanksgiving Food Meme
Courtesy of Pennamite. Put “foods I’ve tried” in bold. Put “foods I would like to try” in italics. Then tally your score. Mine is 64%. Bon appetit!
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. [...]
Mohawk Thanksgiving Address
Courtesy of Tuscarora and Six Nations Website:
The following version of the Thanksgiving Address
was sent by the Mohawk Nation and the Haudenosaunee Grand Council
via Chief Jake Swamp to the Fourth Russell Tribunal,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November, 1980.
THE PEOPLE
We who have gathered together are responsible that our cycle continues. We [...]
Knitting Clio is not a man
But this site says it’s 100% certain that my blog is written by a guy. Try it yourself and see how (in)accurate this is!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Drinking at UConn
I don’t subscribe to the Hartford Courant, so it was only by chance that I saw this article on drinking and Spring weekend at the University of Connecticut while I was getting my oil changed this morning. I agree with the comments section — this really isn’t surprising. What’s surprising is that college officials are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sometimes being a Pain gets results
A few posts ago I complained about the Chronicle of Higher Education ignoring messages from me and my editors about my new book. After several more futile attempts to contact them, I finally posted my frustrations on the Chronicle’s online forum. Within a few hours the scholarly book editor replied. Since the book has been [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why Kool-aid is not a good metaphor
In today’s post, I’d like to raise my concerns about the use of “drinking the Kool-aid” as a metaphor for mass conformity — the latest example is a post on outcomes assessment by Clio Bluestocking . Since Clio is too young to remember the photos of bloated corpses rotting in the Guyana sunshine, I just [...]
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