Hudson Bay Company. You can get beaver traps, milk, and dynamite. Or you could....

Netflix. Yes, I said it: Netflix. Sure its a content font, but so much of it is just crap. Example: There’s this sci-fi time traveler series called, cleverly, “Travelers.” It stars the dude from Will and Grace that was/was not gay. Anyhow, its in its second season. The first was mildly entertaining, but the second,…

The rule of thumb has become “We won’t schedule the defense unless the you can pass it.” The raft of washouts in the 1990s (when I got my PhD) caused this. They’d rather string some poor sap along for a decade and never schedule the defense than have someone fail it. I finished my doctorate in 7 years with a master’s…

None of them knows how to use semicolon; however, I try to teach them.

It would be endlessly diverting.

Yes and no. She’s a wonderful person who only holds people to standards to which she would hold herself. It’s a book now and the follow on research got me tenure. I am nicer to my grad students, but I have banned the use of semicolons and mock them mercilessly every time they use one.

Ice Time is MONEY. I don’t know if Czech kids are brought up on that fact, but every minute counts on the rinks.

“But if you’re a U.S. citizen driving through a checkpoint with an ounce of weed and a K-9 (or agent) happens to sniff your car, you’re in trouble.”

If your dissertation director was as, um, honest as mine, then these comments are mild to slightly stinging. My favorite: “This sentence is merely words vomited upon the page. It doesn’t even qualify as a sentence. Sentences have structure even if the grammar is poor. This ‘thought’ resembles a piece of gum sticking…

His booking at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst was at the behest of a group set up to invite trolls such as him to campus. It barely even has a College Republican chapter.

I fire up the snowblower every 8". If that means doing it 4 times in 24 hours, even in the dark, so be it. It beats the hell out of waiting until the snow is 32" deep and your $2K snowblower has to have a ramp shoveled to get it up on top of the snow enough to be effective.

There is no formal definition of a town, or a city, borough, or a village at the national level in the US. I live in a legally-defined-by-the-state-government city that refers to itself as a “town” in all of its documents including its charter. Within that town/city, I live in a village that is a component of that…

Shake it more than once and you are playing with it.

Mike Young is quietly one of the best coaches in the country. I suspect he’ll helm a “power5" team in the future, but he’s been with Wofford for quite a stretch. He’s a Bobby Knight coaching tree product by way of little D3 Emory & Henry. The other coach out of that tree is Jimmy Allen at Army, which used to be the…

+1 a tort

It has equivalents, but nothing greater. “C*nt” comes to mind. I am no paragon of chivalry, but the last out-and-out punch up I got in was when I lived in NJ for grad school. A guy in the ShopRite parking lot (feel the Jersey) called my partner that word for walking too slowly or something. She had him by the hair…

fetus = “prenatal cellular mass”

He’s a reprehensible prick, but he’s got the legal education chops like nobody else. Vanderbilt, UVa Law, Magadelen College (Oxford) is just the start. Smart evil fucker.

I’ve sat in on many of my brother’s surgeries (I am a ghoul). I’ve seen $3000 saws get used alongside the aforementioned harbor freight hammers.

My brother is a orthopedic surgeon and buys those plastic dead blow hammers at HarborFreight.