Comedian George Carlin died yesterday, and while it’s been years since I watched one of his shows, I feel an emptiness. Carlin was, as many have pointed out, a rare genius whose comedy never got stale. His observations of human behavior cut to the quick and made us laugh at ourselves. The Houston Chronicle’s Andrew [...]
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George and George: I miss you both
Posted in The Comp Life, shout out on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Through the Cracks
Posted in The Comp Life, tagged comp, students, YSU on April 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Every semester, I have to have the it-isn’t-mathematically-possible-to-pass-this-course conversation with a student. And it usually happens during week ten or eleven of the semester when the student has gotten around to adding up his or her grades. Sometimes, the student has spent the past ten weeks skipping, texting, and making excuses for late work. In [...]
