No big enlightening post for today - mostly just a day of catching up on miniscule (yet important) things around the office and in my academic life. Stumbled across this article arguing that all of Freud's theories as to the working of the mind,...

I always get a bit bored waiting to teach my late afternoon class, since I've done most everything that I can do (lies!) between now and then. As good a time as any to write on the blog. A good friend of mine sent me this link where Stephen Fry argues...

Doing some last-minute preparation before our departure for New Haven in the morning for the Yale IV, which generally involves printing out maps, train schedules, hotel confirmation numbers and tax exemption forms. Prepping for a tournament is pretty...

Chatting with a friend of mine online the other day and he asked me for my favorite argumentation\debate books. Thought I would list them here as well. Here's the list I came up with: The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation by Perelman and...

My body seems to know when I have weekends off from debate and schedules all my illnesses for those times. Yesterday and today I've been fighting a nasty cough and not really feeling motivated to do much of anything. I'm about to take my laundry down...