Spring Beltane Moon “Reminding us that “professor” means someone professing a faith, Delbanco exhorts us to keep the etymology alive: “Surely this meaning is one to which […]
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Mid-Summer New Honey Extraction Moon “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein Logic revealed itself to me in Symbolic Logic I at Wabash College. Professor Larry Hackstaffe taught it and I struggled like a flopping fish for six weeks, right up to the first test. I […]
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Fall Waning Back to School Moon Lafayette, Indiana on the banks of the Wabash River. Home of Purdue, the Boilermakers. Got in here at 8:58 last night Minnesota time. But, this being Indiana, it was 9:58 here. Indiana suffers from chronic ambichronicity with the rest of the country and from county to county within the […]
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Samhain Waning Wolf Moon Sigh. The Vikings. Going to the Cardinals for a big game has proved unhappy for us. Again. I don’t even know the final score because I turned it off with 6 minutes to go. Not a pretty sight. Logicomix is a great read. If you love philosophy and logic. Which I […]
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