Word Hoard

Ads have started popping up on campus for Anonymous , a new movie advancing the stupid idea at the Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who ...

I'm most of the way through Capek's R.U.R. , the play that coined the word "Robot." My favorite part, so far (and by far)...

I've been reading Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World As Stage . He includes this version of the opening of Hamlet's soliloqu...

Another quote forwarded me by my advisor. This is Rawls, from his Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy . He nails one of the many t...

Another bit from A Sand County Almanac . Leopold offers an illustration of how (non-obviously) poor initial decisions about evaluative stan...

My first garden, about eight years ago now, changed my attitude toward plants. I planted it because I wanted food out of it: tomatoes, cucu...

I'm thinking about re-reading Mother Night . I've gone a while without a Vonnegut fix. I pulled it off the shelf this afternoon, a...