Blog: Not My First Rodeo

January 22, 2021: Chairs and Directors Narrative Are Due to A&S [Arts and Sciences] Personnel January 22, 2021: Marketing Message on the newest “Not my First Rodeo” post must go out into the world (If that post does not yet exist, this will pose a problem). An Exhausted Joke That...

For longer than we may have realized, we have been living in desperate times. Nonetheless, many Americans have been lucky to live in circumstances that permitted them to pay only sporadic attention to our chronic calamities in the arenas of public health, employment, social conflict, governance, and politics. That changed...

A Horoscope that Went to the Wrong Address You can relax as 2021 begins. January 1, 2021 The year 2020 is over. The year 2021 has barely begun. How on earth are we supposed to deal with that ? The onset of a new year has always presented the temptation...

This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable. . . . Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the...

“Cultural intermediaries—namely, translators and interpreters—in contact zones turn verbal gibberish into dialogue, and they enable the clashing cultures to understand one another.” Taylor Cozzens “Between Nations: Language Barriers and Cultural Intermediaries in Panama” “I have associated with some of the most accomplished translators in this country and am thus able...

An Uncomfortably Clear Definition of Gerontocracy: “A state, society, or group governed by old people.” Oxford Languages A Pronunciation Guide for “Gerontocrat” “jeer-on-tah-crat” Very Important! Do not miss the guide to holiday gifts that appears at the end of this post! Please take a look at a list, compiled by...

On Thanksgiving, and on every other day of the year, I am thankful that no one has found—and no one will ever find—a vaccine or a cure for Introducer’s Mania. Since the syndrome of Introducer’s Mania does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), I...

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain (The obligatory disclosure: Although he said, “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” I join millions of others in believing that this minor tampering with his actual wording delivers a punch that is more...

Contingency: A future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty. The Oxford Dictionary, online The thrilled sense of a society dancing, all consciously, on the thin crust of a volcano. The words of novelist Henry James, conveying an impression of the United States as he...

The Reasons to Get Reacquainted with Josiah Royce and Mary Roberts Coolidge in the First Week of November 2020 The Original Golden Rule Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. Matthew 7:12 The Golden Rule, Revised for 2020 and...