Must everything be sinister?

Apparently the candy lobbying groups are at the heart of the extra hour of daylight on Halloween this year...ain't nothin' sacred in this dirty world of ours.

Really?

So Pete and I were driving out in Buda today to pick up the dogs and we saw a church sign that said:
Sacred cows make gourmet hamburgers.

All I could think was:
Oversized crucifixes make awesome dildos.

Edutainment

So it seems like George Lucas has determined that the best way for students to learn about the early 20th century is to watch DVDs of "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones." We've become obsolete....

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hEQGdpPRxzCC6KpBBqa_xt2GrPow

Preventing Knowledge?

Here's a question, Bush is quoted as saying "if you're interested in World War III, then it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make nuclear weapon." So is he suggesting the U.S. kidnap the scientific intelligentsia of Iran? Or perhaps shutting down the publishing industry.

David Horowitz strikes again

David Horowitz is putting together an IslamoFascism Awareness Week, to be held on college campuses starting tomorrow, because he thinks Americans are gravely under-informed about the dangers of said brand of "fascism". Wonder if anything will happen at UT...

American Studies in age of corporatization

Writeup that ran on Inside Higher Ed about a panel Janet was on at ASA, re the place of AMS in a corporatizing university.

handy notes on abstract writing

The Society for the History of Technology has a good primer on putting together gold star abstracts. Obviously, some of the information is specific to the SHOT conference, but most of it is pretty broadly applicable.

Another reason that Jimmy Carter is the greatest

Check it:
Jimmy Carter proves once again that you don't screw with a peanut farmer/nuclear physicist/ex-president/author/habitat for humanity builder extraordinaire even if you're Sudanese security.

letter to the Texan

I wound up writing a letter to the editor over the article covering the grad conference, which they actually ran.