May 2007

On graduation ’07.

May 26, 2007

Yesterday was graduation at the Veterans’ Memorial Arena. Some thoughts: • Our society needs to move towards a more gown-intensive wardrobe. Academic robes are comfortable, easy to throw on, and you can wear whatever you want underneath them. Additionally, they make everyone look like wiser, like judges, religious elders, and samurai. Plenty of room for [...]

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Brace.

May 20, 2007

A long, long time ago, upon not being assigned the jersey number I wanted, a wise man told me, “The number doesn’t make the man, the man makes the number.” It was consolation and inspiration. It’s advice I’ve since passed along to many players on many teams, whenever an argument broke out over who got [...]

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The Straw Man.

May 13, 2007

Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society wrote an editorial so ridiculous that I strongly suspect he was secretly hired by an evil cabal of industrialists, developers, meatpacking barons and concrete magnates for the sole purpose of making environmentalism look stupid. Go ahead, read it. I genuinely believe that people like Mr. Watson make reasonable [...]

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My latest get-rich-quick scheme.

May 9, 2007

This article about a grade disinflationist (it’s a word now, by gum) in Louisiana was published over a month ago, but I just read it tonight: A Louisiana school system must pay more than $1.4 million to an English teacher who was suspended and demoted after refusing to change the D’s and F’s she gave to [...]

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