From today’s New York Times:
Dr. Robert J. Alpern, dean of the Yale School of Medicine, said that the university presently had no limits on participation in company speakers’ bureaus, but that because of the medical college association’s report he was thinking of taking them on.
“I don’t have a problem with doctors making $3,000 or $5,000 [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Say “Aaaaaaaah…”
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Festival of Bad Writing entries
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many parks in cities are areas that result in crime.
[No, areas themselves do not result in crime. Some areas become places where crimes can occur, but usually the responsibility falls on the people who enter those areas.]
Policy makers and community leaders are having a growing appreciation for the positive effects urban trees provide.
[The professor, [...]
The Pits and the Perennials
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve seen the lawn out there; you know I want less of it. A student of mine has found a Yellow wood I could have installed, and since the Bluestone order arrived earlier this month, I’ve been digging up sections of the yard, culling out the pebbles [and occassional bricks, marbles, and rusted iron], and [...]
Today in content-free discourse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Content-free prose on 27 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“What we’re doing is we’re going to finalize everything we agree to.”
– Sheila Dixon, Mayor of Baltimore
Festival of Bad Writing entries
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Their was a beginning of less faith in Japan’s economy.”
In contrast, no end to the need for a visit to the Writing Support Lab.
“When I go fishing I nver keep any fish from the Chesapeake Bay because if the fish is infected with DDT or has a high portion of Mercury, you will be infected [...]
It’s when the lightning strikes and the rain thrashes sideways….
Posted in Uncategorized on 20 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…that you realize you forgot to buy milk yesterday.
[insert assorted really bad words here]
Sex and violets
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, it’s Spring; what do you think is happening everywhere right now? Apoplectic Titmouse is proclaiming his territory at all hours, the Love Doves are billing and cooing, the Dumb Bunnies are sitting near our back door washing themselves near the compost heap [in ways that suggest that perhaps what they really each wanted [...]
Today’s Festival of Bad Writing Entry
Posted in Uncategorized on 15 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Items that are different are similar in some examples and different in others.
Of course they are.
Swarm of mad mowers, part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church and Graveyard, mow, noise on 15 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is a Tuesday, sunny, and we’re smack in the middle of April, which means it’s time for [well, yes, taxes] the First Mowing of the Year at the nearby Church and Graveyard!
Little tractor mowers [they have to be small to nip in between the gravestones], spiffy scooter mowers [sort of Segways with teeth], gas-powered [...]
Evaluating fieldwork proposals
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This may be what I get for trying to kill two metaphorical birds with one assignment. I wanted to have the students read a chapter on proposal writing and then do a little practice. That was Bird #1. Bird #2 was to have the students do some international thinking: how could [...]
