Archive for November, 2008

James Dickey is a Liar

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

When I was an undergraduate student at Rice U., oh, a while ago, I took a class on the British Romantics from one of the old guard of the English Department, Alan Grob. Dr. Grob was a professor in a very classic sense — tweed jackets, bicycle, and all. (Apparently, he’d been in a car […]

Keith Olbermann on Proposition 8

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I particularly like Keith Olbermann’s take on this issue as he goes to lengths to de-personalize his response, which makes his argument that this is a basic human rights issue all the more compelling. (Not that something cannot be both personal and a human rights issue, but, you know, rhetoric and all that.) To say […]