Monthly Archives: December 2006

Hoppin’ Hegel, Batman!

Posted on 2006/12/20 by ngilmour

I knew that next semester was going to be rough, but my professor for Hegelian and post-Hegelian literary theory just posted his reading list along with a Darth Vaderesque warning about the reading load. Yeesh! I just ordered Eagleton’s book … Continue reading →

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Weekly Standard’s Damage Control

Posted on 2006/12/18 by ngilmour

“Don’t Cry for Pinochet” His embrace of economic reform seems unlikely to have sprung from a commitment to freedom, given the overarching contempt for liberty that characterized the rest of his government. Rather, in order to insulate himself from the … Continue reading →

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Back to the Classics

Posted on 2006/12/18 by ngilmour

After a frenzy of post-Marxist theory and post-Freudian analysis–that is to say, after reading up on the last decade’s scholarship for my end-of-semester papers–I’ve dug into Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s Iliad. To say that such a shift is a … Continue reading →

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I’m not that fat…

Posted on 2006/12/18 by ngilmour

Mike from the Ooze has once again photoshopped me.

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Pinochet Dead

Posted on 2006/12/11 by ngilmour

Mixed Reaction to Pinochet’s Death Another of the Cold War’s monsters now faces divine judgment. May his years as dictator of Chile serve as a warning to empires–God knows with whom you ally. School of the Americas Watch

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Oh Dear

Posted on 2006/12/09 by ngilmour

It seems that I’ve accidentally wiped out a fair bit of my blog’s goodies while fiddling with BetaBlogger. I suppose I should treat this as an opportunity rather than a curse, so check back frequently for the new look of … Continue reading →

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Casting for Nativity Plays

Posted on 2006/12/09 by ngilmour

I’m thanking the heavens as I type that I’ve never had to cast one of these legendary affairs, but the article is just too funny: Come Christmas, there are always those cynics who dismiss infant nativity plays as pointless charades. … Continue reading →

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Hit Counter

Posted on 2006/12/09 by ngilmour

I have to republish to get the hit counter to show up, so here goes… (It’s right below the “my library” bit.)

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Crapula

Posted on 2006/12/04 by ngilmour

The sermon went well yesterday, and in the process of researching for it, I ran into one of the most fun vice-words I’ve ever seen, the Latin crapula. My Latin class ends tomorrow (exempt from the final), and my students … Continue reading →

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