The Teacher, April 3, 2026 Tries to stop his studentsfrom thinking. Tries to inspireall manner of bad habits. Encourages errors of every stripe and color. Stop endingyour sentences with a period, he says. Use the passive voicewhenever possible and spellingthese days is overrated. Verb tenseagreement is passé and who everheard of a question mark.There’s no reason for learning toContinue reading “#735: The Teacher, April 3, 2026”
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#721: G is for Grant, John
I stumbled upon a live studio recording of Elbowperforming a song called“Kindling” from the Little Fictions album with a guestvocal performance by a guynamed John Grant. Who’s this person, I wondered. And I concluded, if he’s a friendof Elbow’s, he’s a friend ofmine, and then I watched thatvideo. Whoever this JohnGrant person was, he wasContinue reading “#721: G is for Grant, John”
#67: The American Atheist Endorses The Pope
He reads that the Pope has nothing against him, in fact, sees him as an equal, every bit as deserving as the most devout religionist. He sees the Pope coming out for those who are coming out and for those who have been forever out of the closet. He sees him saying that market capitalismContinue reading “#67: The American Atheist Endorses The Pope”