Schoolwork?!
“‘School does not, properly speaking, mean school, but leisure.” Leisure, Pieper says ,is the counterpart to work, philosophical concept of the Sabbath. I, then, find oxymoronic the phrase: school...
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Friday Thoughts – Can The Muppet’s Save Television From Itself?
Last weekend, as reward for completing a paper I went with my sister for a bit of nostalgia, The Muppet Movie. It was one of those times when your glad the characters you love are back on stage. It...
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Top Ten Books I Read in 2011, #8
Number 8 is … Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith This was my guilty pleasure for the year. I couldn’t help but be attracted by the premise of one of our most popular historical...
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The Absolute Necessity of Awkwardness
To Genevieve and Katie, Who Have Watched Me Learn ThisThere is much that is lacking in our culture in the way of acesticism. It is not that we are utterly devoid of discipline. It’s just that our...
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The Top Ten Books Read in 2012, #10
So I’m doing my annual countdown of the best books I read on 2012. There is a small caveat before I start. I didn’t read as much. I read fourteen less books in 2012 than in 2011. This is in major part...
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Getting Priorities Straight
This Easter morning, I awoke after the intensity and beauty of the Easter Vigil to a strange set of headlines. On the top of the paper, in 72 point bold all-caps, was the phrase “Governor’s Tax Plan...
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Why I Am a “Duck Dynasty” Fan
“Why are people standing in line to see me!? I thought Clint Eastwood was cool in all the western movies, but I’m not gonna stand in line to see him…The only person I’d stand in line for is God...
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#popefrancislife
My students have gotten me in the habit of putting #life at the end of any description or tale that involves irony, paradox, awkwardness or humility (ie: those things that the world considers to be...
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Top Ten Books Read in 2013 -2
Lamy 2000 My familiarity with Neil Gaiman came from his penning the comic book series Sandman, which admittedly and ashamedly I’ve never read. He instantly became a cool cat for though when I found out...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon and the Comedy of Personhood
If you’ve spent more than 2 hours on Facebook a week, it’s likely one of your ‘friends’ has posted a video from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He has take over the video-waves with a brilliant social...
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