• How I spent my summer vacation

    The rock at Morro Bay at sunset

    I’m ready for summer.

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  • ruppository

    ruppository (ruhpoz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee), n. A small, solid mass of fabricated evidence, facts, statistics, information, etc., inserted into the rectum, enabling one quickly to pull arguments out of one’s ass. Ex.:

  • Aging and agelessness

    MIlan Kundera cover superimposed with text from novel

    I have long been haunted by a passage from Milan Kundera’s Immortality.

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  • OED

    OED (oh-ee-dee), n. Psychiatry. Oxford English Disorder: a potentially disabling anxiety disorder in which a person mentally or verbally reacts to misspelled, mispronounced, or misused words. OED occurs in a spectrum from mild to severe and, if severe and left untreated, can destroy a person’s relationships at work, at school, or even at home.

  • What I’m reading (and teaching): McIntyre’s Post-Truth

    Fingers crossed

    I’m more nervous than usual about the upcoming semester.

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  • disingenious

    disingenious (dis-in-jeen-yuh s), adj. 1. of a person. having or showing an unusual aptitude for dishonesty or insincerity; skilled at inventing new ways to deceive or mislead. 2. of things or ideas. characterized by original or inventive deception or insincerity. Ex.: Russian troll farms developed disingenious tactics to sow discord among American voters.

  • “The Paranoid Style,” part 3:
    Both sides now

    The Kink's CD Cover Paranoia the Destroyer

    Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be.

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  • POTUS interruptus

    POTUS interruptus (poh-tuh s in-tuhruhp-tuh s), n. Withdrawal method, used or threatened by the President of the United States, presumably to garner economic or rhetorical advantage, as with NAFTA, TPP, the Paris Agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, the UN Global Compact on Migration, NATO, etc. Generally a dick move.

  • What I’m reading: Amber Benson’s Death’s Daughter

    I haven’t finished reading Montaigne’s Essays yet, but it’s summer, and sometimes a guy just needs a break from 16th-century France.

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  • angstrovert

    angstrovert (ahngkst-ruh-vurt, angst-, -roh-), n. an individual whose attention and interests are directed wholly or predominantly toward an unfocused feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically about the human condition or the state of the world in general.

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