Episodes

In 2010 I got really sick. I started getting headaches. At first I thought I was dehydrated because for a while it felt like a really bad hangover. But the headaches kept getting more and more frequent and worse and worse. I went to the doctor and he gave me a shot for pain reduction but it didn’t help. [Read More]

The field of rhetoric wouldn’t exist without teachers. We have survived because of a tradition of strong teachers for thousands of years, now. And our foundations are teachers, too. The people who first developed what would become rhetoric, who shaped and molded the very basics of the discipline, were teachers who wanted to pass on their ideas to students in order to do something good for their community. Rhetoric depends on teachers. So it makes sense that rhetoricians have a vested interest in the way teachers at large are treated. [Read More]

I’m back from a hiatus due to COVID and I appreciate you sticking with me. Let me just say that COVID is no joke, and you should get your vaccinations and your booster. It’s rough out there.

I had plans to talk about academics and publishing and innovation, and I had even started on that episode, but then the world happened. Sometimes things occur that I just can’t let go. [Read More]

In the wake of the leaked Roe opinion there have a lot of people scrambling to prepare for the inevitable impact. Most people are trying to figure out how they are going to protect women and the other parties who could also possibly be impacted by the decision, but there are some people, specifically some state legislators, whose reaction has been to shift into high gear and prepare to eliminate abortion rights completely. [Read More]

The unimaginable happened this week. Somebody leaked a draft of a Supreme Court opinion. That in and of itself is a story. The integrity of the Court is pretty much over and done with. But it wasn’t just any opinion. It was the Mississippi case that took on Roe v. Wade. [Read More]