A look back on the previous year, and here are some of the top hit posts:
Why the Civil War Happened
an in-depth analysis
Will the Religious Right Wake Up on the Right Side of the Bed?
an op-ed in the Warblr Continue reading
Category Archives: Chuckles
New Poem—Times I Have Let Out A Sigh
[The following poem was composed in 2005 in honor of the demolition of a historic building on the campus of Freed-Hardeman University, and was originally published in the school literary magazine.] Continue reading
The “Moving the Goalposts” Fallacy
Don’t you hate it when a friend agrees to a set of rules in a game and then complains about them? They try to claim they actually won by weaseling their way out of the contractually agreed-upon rules?
This is a logical fallacy in argument known as moving the goalposts. This fallacy is commonly considered a version of the special pleading fallacy. After a claim is shown to be false, an attempt at making a special exception is made. Continue reading
The End of Candy Season
According to the NRF, in 2014 Americans spend 2.2 billion dollars on candy.
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Tim McGraw Makes a Pro/Con List
Tim McGraw sits down and makes a list of pros and cons.
In 7th Grade I Wrote a Spy Novel called “8 Ball”
I did. In 6th grade I was introduced to Goldeneye 64, which introduced me to James Bond. I recorded all the 007 films during a TV marathon and became so obsessed I began writing my own spy novel.
It was called 8 Ball. By the end of 7th Grade I had written it, and my plan was to have 25 of them total in a series. This never happened. Neither did the publication of 8 Ball.
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Quotes from a bad Grad School English Textbook
I now present to you samples from a graduate level English textbook, which I’m pretty sure were written by a high schooler:
“George Orwell was not a novelist.”
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10 Reasons I am not a Hipster
10 Reasons I am not a Hipster:
1. My bike has gears, and the maintenance I do on it consists solely of pumping the tires.
2. I did like the Avett Brothers before they were cool, but I also still like them, and do not believe they have sold out.
3. I have never voted Democrat, and just because I’ve been fair to Obama doesn’t mean I like him. Continue reading
An Autobiography in 20 Random Moments
Recall a few years ago when those Facebook posts were popular: “My 30 Favorite songs” or “20 things you don’t know about me”. One I have yet to see is this:
20 random, seemingly insignificant, yet nonetheless vivid moments in your life that are not at all monumental. The idea behind it is this: If you made a list of such memories, would you be able to find a common thread, a sustaining narrative, that would explain you through these small moments in your life? What was it that made you remember them? Was it just scents and sounds? Or was it some underlying significance?
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Putting the Elf Shelf Away: A Reflection
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thegirlsny/8208193899/lightbox/
Despite a number of protests, my wife and I opted to do the Elf on the Shelf this year for our two-and-a-half-year-old. No, the protests weren’t from our child. I meant he protests in various blogs online, blogs that make very good points.
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CALEB COY 