The Construct

And we complain about the "poor" command of English our graduates have. There's no reason to play chicken and egg on a problem that is caused by many wrongs on so many different levels. But one thing that the academe shouldn't do is make matters worse by...

I feel so old in saying "How I wish we had the learning resources kids have these days." The Internet and the availability of information has, I think, has pretty much the same effect as, say the photocopying machine or the word processor. I just can't...

It really is a hard thing to come up with something original these days. That proverbial bucket in the sea of knowledge is a constant bitching reminder that no matter how much you read and learn, you won't be able to match the billions of Google's indexed...

Lake Superior State University recently posted a list of their banished words for 2010. The list includes words in popular use right now such as "unfriend," "tweet," and "sexting." The list continues to argue in favor of prescriptivism. Promoting a...

I was supposed to pick out my overdue birthday and Christmas gift yesterday. Failed miserably yet again. You see, rewarding myself is an idea that's foreign. Blame childhood issues, perhaps. Oftentimes, I get what I need and not what I really want. In...