Center of Gravitas

Tenured Radical tagged me to write about the reasons that I love teaching history (or something to that effect). Articulating our reasons f...

Teaching is generally a part of the academic job that I enjoy. More times than not I enjoy engaging with my students. Most of them are ser...

Up until this point, I have largely avoided writing about the various presidential candidates. Acknowledging them only encourages them. Al...

Long time readers of CoG know that I have an unhealthy obsession a strong interest in 1970s television. Actually, even short-time readers...

Well, the semester is off and rolling. It seems like time is going by so quickly. There are still Christmas packages that I have yet to ma...

Classes resume tomorrow at Big Midwestern University. I am having a hard time coming to terms with this ridiculously short winter break. M...

After a grueling couple of days, I finally finished all of my grading for the semester. All educators seem to agree: Grading sucks. Each ...

This past weekend marked two years since I moved out of the house that I co-owned with Liar Ex (Who Told Many Lies). It was the day that I ...

Time passes incredibly fast for me these days. I feel like it should be the start of November, not deep into December. All of my days are...

I have made little secret that I throughly enjoy SciFi Channel’s reincarnation of Battlestar Galactica (BSG) . To my mind, the writing on t...

Dating is complicated. I don’t mean “complicated” in the same sense that figuring out how to keep a skyscraper from falling over is complic...

Today, the U.S. celebrates “Thanksgiving Day.” Much about this holiday always left me feeling ambivalent, even as a child. On the one hand,...

Let me emphasize again how disappointed I was in the recent ENDA debacle. Think I am beating a dead horse here? Oh, please. By the time I ...