Recent Exercises

  • New Job

    I’d like to say I have a new job but this would be equivocation. What’s really happening is my relationship with my job is totally different than it…

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  • An Argument

    The most valuable things for me in college were reading books and discussing them (or listening to the professor talk about them). The other valuable thing was being…

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  • Bad Teacher

    I’ve become a very bad teacher recently and I’d like to figure out why. Reflecting on what a bad teacher is, I’ve come up with the following ideas…

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  • Rhetoric is too Important to be left to the institutional rhetoricians

    Rhetoric historians – I know you are reading. Please let me know what the analogue is to this issue? I beg you, I need to read some of…

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  • Bad Teaching is Debate Coaching

    Still thinking about what makes bad teaching/good teaching. I found this atrocious lecture from “debate coaches” supposedly teaching the best and brightest young debaters at an exclusive “forum”…

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  • The God Damn University Athletic Department

    Known as the “grease trap” or “drip tray” or “Spill tray” of employment, the University Athletic department is one of the things that needs to be eliminated from…

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