Category: bullies
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Today is Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan. After (only) two years in Japan I still have no idea what that means or what is celebrated. But I was always thankful… more ›
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I just finished reading two articles from the IHT: German claiming CIA torture loses final appeal and 40 years after Che’s death, his image is a battleground after doing some… more ›
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One of the many blemishes part of Putin’s blemished legacy, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered a year ago. more ›
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Today, on Columbus Day (Observed) I’m sitting through a lecture on early American history—yeah, academic calendars don’t quite match up to national holidays. (When I was at UD—boo! hiss!—I was… more ›
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I love my teaching job. Really. My students are bright and inquisitive and ask really difficult questions. It’s easy to see that many of them are engaged with the subject.… more ›
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I love my teaching job. Really. My students are bright and inquisitive and ask really difficult questions. It’s easy to see that many of them are engaged with the subject.… more ›
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Learning German is making me even more unfit as a human being. As if having studied Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, Ukrainian, and Latin have made me either marketable or… more ›
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Learning German is making me even more unfit as a human being. As if having studied Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, Ukrainian, and Latin have made me either marketable or… more ›
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… or the post where Euro-Franz offends absolutely everyone. (By the way, here “euro” is pronounced “oy-Roh,” pretty much how a Jew would address Rosie O’Donnell.) Sitting at Café Angst… more ›
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… or the post where Euro-Franz offends absolutely everyone. (By the way, here “euro” is pronounced “oy-Roh,” pretty much how a Jew would address Rosie O’Donnell.) Sitting at Café Angst… more ›