Center of Gravitas

With the summer upon us, it is just about time for the academic job search process to start spooling up again. Inside Higher Ed asked me t...

Star Trek’s latest incarnation warped into theaters this past week. Praised by critics, fans, and newbies alike, the film is more than suc...

Geez – I return to [landlocked] Paradise Island for just a few days and patriarch’s world totally falls apart. People lost their damn minds...

I've been busy. Not busy in painful ways, but busy enough to set aside my blogging duties. I know -- The blogosphere feels so empty wi...

Unlike others in my region, I did not mourn Rick Wagoner’s recent dismissal from GM. On the contrary, I have long believed that all of the C...

Like so many gay nerds, I devotedly watched the last season of Battlestar Galactica . Let me tell you, as a queer boy, I feel cheated. No,...

A few nights ago I had a cocktail with a junior colleague from another department. After an hour, I couldn’t believe the yarn that ze was w...