Academic twitter has been abuzz with the story of Tiffany Martinez, a student and aspiring professor at Suffolk University. Martinez was called out in front of her whole class for suspected plagiarism because she used the word “hence.” Martinez described her… Continue Reading
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In post on Donald Trump’s not-so-veiled threats to spill the beans about Heidi Cruz, Callum Borchers of the Washington Post noted: “That’s the dilemma for the press. In any previous election, if the Republican presidential front-runner had threatened a rival’s… Continue Reading
These past few weeks I have had the pleasure of having a philosophical back and forth with someone with whom I went to grad school in philosophy. He is a political philosopher who has no background in disability studies, but (I… Continue Reading
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: institutional racism and crude Italian-American stereotypes. I had gone to see Zootopia with my kids. B/B+. Pretty… Continue Reading
Perhaps you have had cause to be in a medical provider’s office recently. (If so, I hope your reasons for being there were benign or relatively minor.) If you have been in a medical office anytime in the past several… Continue Reading
As I mentioned yesterday, I went for a run this past weekend. This despite having waxing and waning pain in the right heel over the past few weeks, which I strongly suspected was a smoldering case of plantar fasciitis. Despite… Continue Reading
I started running regularly sometime within the past few years. I’ve always gotten some kind of regular exercise, which usually meant hitting the gym a few times every week. At some point I decided to go for the occasional short… Continue Reading
A few years ago, I underwent a somewhat horrifying personal transformation into the sort of person who runs for fun. It started innocently enough one day when I thought I might go for a short jog, and somewhere along the… Continue Reading