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It seems the book review editor of the N.Y. Times asked a committee of writers, editors and publishers to identify “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.” Beloved by Toni Morrison got the most votes. Now, I’ve read some of Toni Morrison, but I agree with my […]

Just another goofy tale from the land of academia.  An article last year in The Chronicle of Higher Education explained that job candidates for a teaching position were put in the ‘We regret to inform you’ pile when it was discovered that they had Blogs.  Said blogs contained their personal reflections and perceptions on life […]

It looks as though shocks in the information society are coming faster and faster: a lot speedier than when Alvin Toffler wrote his book Future Shock (which, by the way, Neil Postman claimed was originated by him).  No sooner have colleges and universities spent loads of bucks on P.R. consultants to get high school seniors and […]

The Wall Street Journal did a story about Drexel University in Philadelphia.  Among other things, it shows that college administrators don’t want to exploit adjuncts; it’s cheaper just to fire them!   
 
For Dr. Papadakis [President of Drexel U], the full-timer issue poses a dilemma, since one of his bedrock ideas is to encourage the use of Internet-based courses […]

Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Alan Alda (actor, writer)
Dave Barry (humorist, writer, actor)
Joy Behar (writer, comedienne, co-host of “The View”)
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (television writer/producer “Designing Women”, “Evening Shade”)
Gwendolyn Brooks (“We Real Cool”)
Carol Browner (head of the Environmental Protection Agency)
Edward Burns (actor, director, producer, writer)
Brett Butler (actress, writer, comedienne)
James Cameron (director, editor, producer, screenwriter […]

I published this essay a while ago, about six months ‘into’ the Iraq War. I didn’t realize it would still be relevant today. Unfortunately, it is.