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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…

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…

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 . . . .”)

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
In a sane and rational world, it shouldn’t be necessary to state for the record that I thoroughly disapprove of alt-right supporters neo-Nazis white-supremacists dirtbag racist whackaloons holding torchlit rallies, chanting racist slogans, beating up counterprotesters, and ramming cars into crowds of people with murderous intent. It would…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Our printer died the other day, somewhat to our surprise. It was an HP Deskjet 6940 — in other words, a fairly sturdy office model — and it really shouldn’t have reacted so badly to having been taken for a car ride to Peabody, Massachusetts, and back again.?…