Saturday Morning Links

Just finished mid-term week here at Casa Letter-Spears, so it seems quite appropriate to begin with the five stages of grading. Indeed, Mr. Fish. Indeed. Bill Morris at The Millions…

So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry…

In south Florida, all conversations eventually turn to traffic and bad drivers. In the past, everyone blamed the elderly. Now we blame mobile phones, but I think the truth is…

Today’s blogging comes to you courtesy of the grading I’m escaping from. Scott Horton at Harper’s points to a study of prosecutorial misconduct in the Justice Department put together by…

Sometimes I wish I had a second computer just to grade my students’ papers with, so I could accidentally drop that computer into the toilet. Do you know who Ines…

I’m starting to believe that there is nothing in this world more likely to destroy one’s schedule than Netflix Streaming. Quick question about Park 51. Almost everyone objecting to it…

First meeting of the term turned into drinking and eating and eating and drinking and a long headachey ride home. That’s what I call a good start. To absolutely no…

Is it Saturday already? My last week of vacation/first week of work went by a little quickly. How did medieval folks protect their DVDs? I haven’t written anything on the…

I have one cat who carries around a catnip-filled mouse in her mouth and quacks. I have another who barks. The other two make regular appearances on my Facebook page.…

It’s a Saturday morning, the World Cup is on, and I’m done with students for the next 7 weeks. Let’s read. And let’s start with Jacob Lambert at The Millions…

I got my hangover out of the way Friday morning, so I should be chipper. Of course, I have a metric ton of grading to do for the end of…

Late start this morning. I’d like to take a moment to thank all the Belgian beer that made this late start possible. In the event you’re having trouble finding enough…