decorabilia

Robert "Berd" Whitlock is one of Olympia's indispensables, a photographer who blends politics, philosophy and imagery from his...

Congrats to my brother, who will soon have his first book published. (First solo project, anyhow, which counts more than sharing a volume ...

The best part of the entire book of Proverbs, in this debate coach's opinion, comes in the 26th chapter. 4 Do not answer a fool accor...

(Apologies to Pirandello, and thanks to my brother. ) The Compleat Blogger Idiot Boxers: The Ever-Dumbening Discourse of Cable News Don...

As the decade closes, blog-neighbor TRP hangs up his spurs . At least we'll always have the archive.

Of course a poem protesting the War on Christmas would provoke a counterpoem. It's rhetorical escalation, and we're all collateral d...

Jason Kuznicki on the semiotics and politics of office candy : There were the little rituals. You’d come in, take a piece of candy, start a ...

Maybe Meryl Streep's too modest. Now, I know I'm a good actress. I'm Meryl Streep. I've won two Academy Awards, and I have b...

1. Are people doomed to think of lawyers as sophists? Probably, since it's a matter of indeterminate definitions. 2. Determination, one...

If you read only one thing on the Internet today, make it Tim Sandefur's eulogy for his grandmother Elsie.

Dear Trader Joe's, It pains to write this, but I feel spurned and neglected by your corporation. Not because it's taken you so long ...

Ryan at I Thought a Think explains why merit pay is never a simple matter . So, who is your Most Valuable Teacher? Is it Teacher A, who adde...

The digital era has finally arrived--for debate judges. Jeffrey Miller of Georgia Forensics throws down the gauntlet: When Brandon & I ...

Long-time blog-neighbor T/R/P is contemplating Twitter. Sort of. More accurately, he's contemplating blogger burnout, and leaving Twitt...

1. At least if you're one of an embarrassed batch of J-school grads : When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic bu...

James Hanley on teaching at the college level : I keep trying to figure out why teaching is so exhausting, and I think I’ve finally figured ...

Last night the M's beat a pretty good Tampa Bay team behind spectacular pitching by Jarrod Washburn. How did that happen? USS Mariner...

In perhaps my favorite exchange from O Brother Where Art Thou, the Hogwallop child, after ensuring that our vagrant heroes aren't ...

From time to time, this blog has discussed the morality of torture, which, for its proponents, hinges on one thing: whether it works. But e...

The title of this post is stolen from one of the best books any English teacher (or any secondary teacher, for that matter) can buy. I tho...