The Humanities. Yeah.

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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Imagination

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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On the Banks of the Wabash

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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Logicomix

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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