Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Because the people who want to control what the rest of us read just don’t ever stop. (Confession time here.? I’m a First Amendment purist, of the stripe which, if we were talking the Second Amendment instead of the First, would undoubtedly get me labeled a “free speech…
Author Archives: jamesdmacdonald
Dotard!
The news lately is full of the word “dotard,” and all of the news sources feel compelled to add a definition. As if everyone didn’t already know what dotard meant. In the small fishing village whence I come, “Dotard!” is constantly on every man’s lips. Seriously, I’ve known it since I was eight or ten,Continue reading “Dotard!”
Nostalgia Calling, However Briefly
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Every once in a while, I run across something that makes me wish for a moment that I’d stayed in Academia.† Like this call for papers: Inside Out: Dress and Identity in the Middle Ages, the 38th Annual Conference at Fordham University’s Center for Medieval Studies. Not that…
From my mail
My connection with this group: Sometimes I do magic for them. —- I’m proud to announce that the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua’s Camp Mariposa has been selected as one of 200 finalists in the State Farm Neighborhood Assist® program after competing with over 2000 causes across the nation! Please help us win aContinue reading “From my mail”
Haec Sunt Mea Ornamenta
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
My offspring, they have a podcast: No Story is Sacred It’s up at all the usual places. (“Art in the blood, Watson . . . .”)
