Papers please: Dudley Hiibel case Web site recounting the case of a Nevada rancher who was arrested for failing to produce ID after a policeman requested it. The legal battle that resulted has reached the Supreme Court. Video of the…
Papers Please/What Has Really Damaged
Email Down
Our main email addresses, along with our websites, are still down, so Sam, Katie, and I aren’t getting comment notifications. My spamcop.net address (technomom@) is still working if you wish to send a message to me that way. I’m scheduled…
I Miss Intelligent Discourse!
Why do I bother? I know the other students are unlikely to ever LOOK at the responses I’ve posted to their posts in the class discussion board. I find myself constitutionally incapable of NOT refuting something like this: “The Egyptians…
Fixed-Width Font?
I want a nicer fixed-width font than Courier or Courier New. It needs to be TTF and freely available. Suggestions?
Catching Up On the Lit Class
In the last week, I’ve finished units 1-3 of my literature course. I’m about halfway done with Unit 4. That represents about two months of assignments, so I feel pretty good about it. I do want to go back and…
Egyptian Influence on Ancient Hebrew Literature
If you read these, I must assume that you are a true glutton for punishment. Did ancient Egyptian literature have any influence on ancient Hebrew literature?
The Afterlife in Gilgamesh
And more, poor put-upon readers. The question was: The tragedy of mortality — the tragedy gains poignance by the absence ?? of a well developed system of belief in afterlife.
And She’s Got a Ph.D. in English?
This is friends-only simply in case the professor ever follows the link in my .sig here. I doubt it, but anyway… Remember me saying that I’m less than impressed with this professor? This is copied directly from the class site:…
Shamhat to Eve
More “I had to write it so I might as well post it.” One of the discussion questions in the lit course was: The role of women in Gilgamesh or rather the process of civilizing Enkidu. Do you see any…
Aging
The day a woman realizes that she isn’t worried about her nose being shiny, but having forgotten to use moisturizer was a painful mistake, she truly knows that she’s getting old. Kennesaw didn’t get my mid-term. I don’t know if…