Woodland Shoppers Paradise

Students in my COMM 149 class get to read a terrific essay by Mark Edmundson in The Chronicle Review (March 14, 2008). In this piece, Edmu...

Lately I've been thinking about the many students who want to improve their writing but are unsure where to begin. Students have reporte...

Reflecting back on Obama's More Perfect Union speech, which I discussed yesterday , I thought I'd review a few editorials that follo...

Speaking in Philadelphia this morning, Barack Obama transformed the boiling controversy over Jeremiah Wright's excerpted speeches, those...

Here's a partial Itinerary of my forthcoming Route 66 trip . Any other recommendations? Post a comment! Illinois River Grove - Hala-Kahi...

New York Times : JPMorgan Acts to Buy Ailing Bear Stearns at Huge Discount . Here's a snip: "Bear Stearns, pushed to the brink of b...

Pretty much my favorite Rhymes with Orange comic yet: Take-Your-Cat-To-Work-Day (From the March 2, 2008 strip).