Category Archives: Bloggenpheffer

Anna at Little Red Boat wrote: In the middle of the town, I was standing in line for the cash machine. It was a beautifully sunny day, and people were strolling around, happily. In the street in front of four … Continue reading →

… if I get some Custom Bobble Heads made of my new Dean, will he think I’m a suck up? Or will he find a way to revoke my tenure? –Ann Bartow

Or a gigantic goof? At this link is what YouTube frames as a “1965 Anti-Pornography Propaganda film” entitled “Perversion for Profit.” Produced by “Citizens For Decent Literature, Inc.” it is narrated by “George Putnam, outstanding new reporter.” It’s so hammy … Continue reading →

More here. Cuss words ahoy. Via Pen-Elayne.

No word on whether it has been tamed. Update: Far more adorable shrew pix here.

Last June (June 2005), I was in Israel at a time when there was no fighting and a strange little peace. I was wondering around the streets of Tel Aviv with a friend, generally enjoying myself, and I saw this … Continue reading →

I’m not going to describe them, they are all work safe (assuming you are allowed to curse silently, and laugh loudly, at work); beyond that it is simply caveat clickor: Here. And here. And here. And here. And here. And … Continue reading →

Both photo and post title from Arse Poetica.

From AskMen.com’s “12 Types Of Women To Avoid”: …Keep a watchful eye out for the following list of women, and you’ll be one step closer to curing yourself of habitual bitch-dating: 1- Miss Feminist This woman postulates that all the … Continue reading →

I never had any interest in an acting career, but one of my childhood friends had a passion for the theater that survives today, as she now writes plays rather than acting in them. She worked some as a child, … Continue reading →

Here. Below is an excerpt from a post called “Lube Warning” from “03-02-2002.” All of us abuse the hand sanitizer. I know that over-the-counter antibacterial products are bad. I know that it actually develops hideous resistant strains of bacteria. I … Continue reading →

Via Discourse.net.

Via Feminist Law Prof KC Sheehan at Doing Justice.

Eric Muller at Is That Legal notes that the U.S. military launched an assault against the Taliban yesterday which they are, seriously, not joking,  calling “Operation Mountain Thrust.” Possibly this is because all the cool  phallus-referencing names like “Big Dick … Continue reading →

“The Memory Hole” is an essay by writer Michael Chabon. It’s about throwing away his children’s artwork.   Here is a short excerpt: I will be haunted by the memory of the way my younger daughter looks at me, when … Continue reading →

It’s quite soothing, actually.   Via Pen-Elayne.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION Case No. 6:05-cv-1430-Orl-31JGGAVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC., d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc., Plaintiff, vs WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant. ______________________________________ ORDER This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to designate location … Continue reading →

If you are in the mood for a spicy bit of satire at Marie Claire‘s expense, click here.

Via Flickr.

I blogged about the satirical “Rate Your Students” site somewhere else, awhile back. It has been through some changes since then. I was reminded of it by Mad, Melancholic Feminista today. It’s a fairly grumpy account of academia, but I … Continue reading →

Cut them up and make “Stiletto Hooks.” Via GreeneSpace.

Seriously.

I was totally enthralled with this “oddball” blog anyway, and then I found a post containing a “photo” from Columbia SC! Via everyday life, which has a funny Arlie Hochschild anecdote. You might also enjoy “It’s an Apostrophe Thing,” which … Continue reading →

Credit Bruce Shneier.

Would certainly work in a Trademark Law or Copyright Law class….

Really, “mammatus” seems to be the scientific name! A.k.a. “sagging pouch-like structures” which is a whole lot less metereologically appealing. Photo from here.

At Making Light, Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a long list of “dreadful phrases” she has run across in her reading. Here are just a few: they excepted his application don’t rein in my parade broad soldiers the automobile’s breaks taught … Continue reading →

This paragraph: On Thursday, when the red bumps were particularly inflamed on my right elbow, I drove up to Chicago in order to attend a reception for those admitted to Harvard Law School. That’s right. I went to a Harvard … Continue reading →

Simpsons parody of “Just a Bill on Capitol Hill.”

“Tonight while I was out on a smoke break, I looked at the tree and thought,”Man, that is one sad tree. It looks cold and wet and pathetic. It needs a sweater!”I went home and whipped one up, it only … Continue reading →

The syllabus for one of my courses is a single page in lenth, in fourteen point font, with a couple of sentences bolded, the theory being that if it is short, snappy, and easy to read, students will actually read … Continue reading →