Recent Exercises

  • Bernie Sanders, X, and Essentialism

    Why is Bernie, or any other left-leaning person still using X or Twitter? This makes little sense to me. I guess this is just another example of people…

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  • Spotify and Driving

    Last time I drove regularly I had three options: FM radio, AM radio and a CD player. I would move between them depending on the drive, the trip,…

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  • We’re Doomed

    I just saw an English professor post on Facebook that taking students to the theater “Solves nothing,” but is a “nice distraction from things.” We are doomed if…

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  • Three Takes on the U.S. Presidential Election

    Take 1: The difficult rhetorical lesson – if there is any perception that one’s economic situation is not as good as it once was, that belief cannot be…

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  • Writing Studies

    Writing studies seems so much more serious than anything going on in speech communication rhetoric to me these days. I think what’s most attractive is the focus on…

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  • Working in the Library

    There’s nothing like it. Bukowski really nailed it when he wrote about it. It’s my second day here at the Saratoga Public library doing some work and it’s…

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