The fourth week of classes is just as ho-hum as the first week. In the early mornings I have political sociology, which is a really interesting class for me as far as the reading content goes. G. William Domhoff‘s Who Rules America? Power, Politics, & Social Change is a text I would recommend to everyone [...]

I’m not sure if they were constructing a Maypole, but they sure were a bunch of hippies. The obligatory end-of-the-semester-course-evaluations-round-up is below the fold.

My Seminar course is utlizing WebCT Vista this semester, which, as their website boasts, … provides a state-of-the-art teaching and learning environment that streamlines course management for faculty, offers capabilities to help improve student outcomes, and creates powerful efficiencies institution-wide. Now, I don’t know much about the statistics of “improved student outcomes” or exactly how [...]

Last winter my parents loaned us the first two seasons of The Sopranos. I was highly skeptical at first, not being one who likes gangster/mob-related things. But then we watched the first episode. Then the second. Before we knew it, we had consumed the entire first season in one night. So I think it is [...]

On Saturday night some friends came into town and we paid $9 each to go to Hell for 40 minutes. The Partner and I heard about the “production”, Final Exit, through a friend the night before. He had seen an ad in the campus newspaper for it and checked out their website. “I’m not sure [...]