Average academics Have a pet theory Dominant academics Have a pet theory about pet theori…

All raw deals Are some version of the following: If we screw up You’ll keep your mouth shut Because if you draw attention to i…

It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…

When it came time to build my own… it quickly became apparent that I’… explaining that the color of the b…

While others await the second coming my own second shortcoming (the first– keeping the peace

We’re not in control so we try to take control which leaves us feeling out of con… But it’s because anything can happ… that we can do anything

When you come in peace I fall to pieces And then collect myself For the gathering storm

War is hell, but be– ing conquered is hell on Earth which makes it much worse

I thought the Protestant work eth… I saw all the lazy rivers in peopl… until I noticed they were each swi… against the current

To paraphrase Hitchcock a marriage is only as good as its villain

I always liked making people laugh until my undergraduates told me that it was an abuse of power asym…

Instead of using our flashlights to move through the wilderness in the dark, slowly we believe that if we just keep shining them about the dark forest

It’s become harder than ever to be the court jester– you have to use humor to speak

It’s a lot easier for men to dwell in the mystery of what a woman wants than to acknowledge what it is exactly that

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and antisemitism