It's 10:13 p.m. in New York as I write this, which I shouldn't be doing because I have a)25 AP World History quizzes on different kinds of historical evidence to grade, b)some fine-tuning to do on tomorrow's role-playing lesson where students recreate the conditions of the pin factory described on the first page of…

Ouroborous

This reads very well; Eric; glad that you've written what you have. The line about Coach Mac's "surprise" was milk-snort funny. Not long after leaving the place a quarter century ago — I dropped out after two years — I wrote an essay called "Harvard: the Worst Educational Institution in the Americas." Because it…

Ah, give Banks a break. She's insecure about her lack of formal education; it ain't the most ingratiating quality in the world but it isn't like she's murdering anyone. I'm a Harvard alum and there are times when I dress myself up real nice, as if I were actually good looking, or something. We all aspire to be a…

Kevin, it sounds like YOU want to mate with Willard because of his wealth and status, and I think that's fine even if you and all of your friends and colleagues do not. But please avoid making summative statements about evolutionary trends in homo sapien mate selection until, say, you learn something — anything —…

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