Author: Mark Egge

It took a few days for last week’s cortisone shot to kick in (a rather cool procedure … they put you on a slab and run a live x-ray machine to help the doctor guide the needle in to the correct place in your spine … if you’re not feint of heart, you can watch […]

Well, the new semester is officially rip-roaring away. I realized this on Thursday when I showed up to my History 407 class. I knew that there was a paper due some time … and to see all the neatly typed and printed papers sitting on desks around the room, I realized that Thursday must have […]

Ah, syllabus week. That wonderful first week of school when the class routine consists of showing up, calling role, handing out the course syllabus, and enduring the indignity of having the syllabus read aloud to you by the course professor. Sadly, all but one of my classes began in this wasteful and most insulting of […]

In re: the Hurricane Gustav of the blogosphere: the scurrilous rumors surrounding Sarah Palin and her fifth-born child, Trig Palin. Edit 2 – 1:34pm, 1 Sept 2008: Barack Obama has condemned the explosive attention to the emerging Bristol Palin pregnancy scandal and rumors. He stated in no uncertain terms that he “would strongly urge people […]

This presidential election has just taken a turn for the sinister. As excited as I am about Barack Obama (and now Joe Biden), I’ve hitherto felt that John McCain being elected would NOT be the end of the world. Well, enter Sarah Palin. Perhaps Jon Stewart would be the appropriate individual to introduce her: Or, […]