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The first rule of Scrap Club
... is that you do talk about Scrap Club. According to a piece that I heard on public radio this...
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You Know the Type
"Proles," explains Paul Fussell in his book Class, "like to use words that normally appear only in newspapers. They don't...
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How Not to Conduct a Presidential Search
An alert reader sent me a link to these articles in the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, detailing the goings-on...
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My Other Stuff
One of the added benefits (for me, anyway) of revealing my real name is being able to share other published...
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National Service
Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...
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An announcement and an accounting
First the announcement: the RSS feed is fixed. Those of you who aren't into RSS don't care, but some of...
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Louisville Sluggards
An alert reader sent me a link to this article in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Apparently, Kentucky passed some 'reforms' about...
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Who's Your Audience?
As an academic on a national job search, I read Richard Florida's latest, Who's Your City?, with mixed emotions. Florida...