Contemporary literary theory, particularly of the postmodern or deconstructionist variety, has long had something of a reputation for being overburdened with inane, incomprehensible, and vacuous jargon. This reputation is not entirely undeserved; however, in my view, business school jargon outdoes literary theory with ease on all three fronts. The content-free buzzwords explaining the firing of […]
Category: nonsense
File under “I can’t believe this actually made it through peer review”. If you’ve been wondering what Thomas Hobbes really had to say about Beethoven, your wait is over. Adrian
Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My favorite line: In Maine, the Tea Part
Via Cliopatra, it’s the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. On days like today, these are the sorts of grammatical transgressions that make me want to garrote a panda. . . . oh, and what the hell is an apostrophe doing in the middle of the word “gourmet?” Come back here, stupid panda!
Not to let my frustration brim over too much, but what’s wrong with people that don’t use turn signals? Are there drivers ed programs out there teaching that there are situations when one
It’s a busy teaching day, but I thought I’d let everyone know that I just dropped by the cafeteria for a quick bite, and no one was screaming “Motherfucker, I want more ice tea!̶
Every day I buy coffee at the coffee shop in the Patterson Office Tower. Every day they ask me whether or not I’m a student. Every day I say “Of course,” because students on campus are exempt from sales tax. Every now and then, usually when I’m wearing a tie, they assume I’m faculty and […]
If you haven’t seen Mister Trend’s Random Music Observations, you really should treat yourself (the first installment is here). They’re pretty much as you would expect — pithy,
So, what, we’re letting just anyone post at TAPPED now? …and the fact that he got an Atrios link for this is going to make my campaign to count Atrios-linked posts as publications for tenu
On my way out of Chicago on Saturday, I stopped by a friend’s house for breakfast. The fast having been broken, we sat and chatted for a while, since my flight didn’t leave until 1:45pm. Of course, it takes at least half an hour to get to O’Hare from anywhere in Chicago, and I’m always […]
Fifty-five years ago today, John Cage wasted 4 minutes and 33 seconds of his audience’s time in Woodstock, NY. Some would argue this was the shortest duration of time squandered by the composer;
One need not investigate the methods used in this study to know that they’re flawed: Our results suggest that having participants listen to songs by AC/DC in which Brian Johnson served as vocali