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Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
(God knows, we need it.) If you were raised in (or have ever lived for an extended time in) the South, this is hilarious: “Tennessee Williams with Air Conditioning” (I read an article somewhere once† that attributed the rise of the modern South to the invention of air…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
The air is thick with humidity and allergens, and I am peevish. Listen to me, O People, when I say unto you, the phrase is not “mother load”, it is “mother lode.” The term comes from mining, specifically gold and silver mining, where it refers to a principle…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
…wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. Shakespeare in the Park is doing Julius Caesar this summer, not Hamlet, but the reference is an apt one nonetheless. Somebody’s conscience (or self-love, or something) has definitely been caught by this year’s modern-dress, Trump-inflected production of Julius Caesar, and…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Q. Are you really a Doctor? A. Yes. I got my Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, back in the Dark Ages 1981. My primary field was Old English, and my cognate field was Old Icelandic, which makes me the sort of person who once stayed…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
We’re now well into the time of hot, oppressive days and high pollen counts.  The cats, instead of sitting like little furry meatloafs with tails and paws neatly tucked in, are stretched out into longcats, and can be reliably used to find the spots with the best cooling…