Monthly Archives: March 2007

30 Mar

Silly Bulls on Parade

If you're a student at University of Pennsylvania  who likes to play frisbee, you should get yourself a shirt that says "Penn Ultimate". But if you're at Yale and you're playing the Penn team, you should steal a bunch of their shirts and write "Anti-" across the top. 
28 Mar

Black Watch

An engineer, an experimental physicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher were hiking through the hills of Scotland. Cresting the top of one hill, they see, on top of the next, a black sheep. The engineer says: "What do you know, the sheep in Scotland are black." "Well, some of the sheep in Scotland are black," replies […]
26 Mar

Peet’s Unfleeced: Peace Caprice Deceased

This NPR story about a Minnesota town council's short-lived support for a U.S. Department of Peace demonstrates the most pitiful thing about small town America. I just want to give it a hug. Personally, I think having a Secretary of History would be much more valuable. "Madame Secretary, historically speaking, what happens when you get yourself […]
26 Mar

Another reason I love my job

I spend about ten hours a week correcting student essays. They pay me back by using words like "trendency". I should get them writing sniglets.