Apparently criticizing Mr. Stewart is a sure way to generate some interest. With this post I simply wanted to call reader’s attention to the thread of discussion that my previous post has spawned. To hopefully clarify my views just a bit, I offer this summation from my last comment. I […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
I was going to write about Jon Stewart criticizing other TV personalities for not doing their job properly while defending himself for similar attacks by hiding behind the “I am just an entertainer” feather boa. I was but my friend Richard Wright beat me to it and did a fine […]
My nephew is trying to raise funds to go to water polo camp and my brother (his father) has set up a donation button at his site. You can donate as little or as much as you like. But what I wanted to highlight most of all is his mad […]
I am very pleased to announce that we are going to have an interesting, exciting, and timely conference at Penn State this fall. I will be on one of the panels and we will have a number of other scholars participating. If you are in Pennsylvania and interested in participating […]
An incredibly powerful memorial. You can read more about it here and this is the picture I was able to take last night.
Some of you who follow US college sports will have heard about FSU’s admitting that 61 of its athletes cheated on exams, with the aid of their athletic academic advisers, during the 2006-7 seasons. (See ESPN story and video.) When such a matter happens the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the […]
I hope not this. That this comic should come out today just as someone commented on this 3-year old post about tenure and shortly after I posted this about academic freedom is a wonderful coincidence (and not the least bit ironic, Alanis Morissette!).
Dead Sea Scrolls scholar responds to son’s arrest — chicagotribune.com He seems to concede that his son Raphael Golb did as he is accused: “The fact of the matter is that if I understand it, Raphael was responding to the attacks on me,” the elder Golb said in Saturday’s editions […]
That is, of course, Phyllis Trible’s terms for the many texts in the Hebrew Bible that shock our modern sensibilities as God calls for the desctruction of the Canaanites or…worse. Since 9/11 many Americans have asked and asserted that the Quran itself, with passages such as Sura 47 that begins […]
First it was the halo effect of the news photo (intentional or accidental?) now St. Obama has his own votive candles.