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A Faded Star at Baylor

weeklyrader.blogspot.com NOTHING ROUSES THE BLOGGER out of a post-holiday hiatus like news that Ken Starr has been named the new president of his alma mater. It's true. The man who whose investigation of the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals engendered President Bi...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Baylor and education, Baylor University and Ken Star

Published on Feb 22, 2010

Best Books of Poetry, 2009

weeklyrader.blogspot.com APOLOGIES FOR CRIBBING MY own list from the San Francisco Chronicle , but deadlines and grading take precedent over originality. I'll call special attention to my stocking stuffers--excellent books of poems that may fly under the radar of most li...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: best books of 2009, best books of poems, best american poetry 2009, best poetry of the year, best collections of poetry 2009, top poetry books 2009, best poetry 2009

Published on Dec 21, 2009

Onward Christian Assassins or “Oh, Lord, please do that voodoo that you do so well” - A Guest Post by Scott Andrews

weeklyrader.blogspot.com OUR FRIEND SCOTT ANDREWS is back with another guest post. Last time it was about werewolves; this time, voodoo. Recently a Southern Baptist preacher from California was in the news because he was praying for the death of President Barack Obama . ...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Wiley Drake, Obama and religion, preacher wants Obama dead, Steve Anderson, Praying for Obama's Death

Published on Dec 10, 2009

Grading President Obama's Speech on Afghanistan

weeklyrader.blogspot.com HOW GOOD WAS PRESIDENT Obama's justification for sending 30,000 troops to Afghanistan? You would hope pretty good. Placing 30,000 young Americans in harm's way has more at stake than the rationale for watching Old School over Office Space . If yo...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Grading Obama's speech on Afghanistan, Obama's speech on Afghanistan, was Obama convincing, Obama's speech to send more troops to Afghanistan, Obama's speech on troop deployment to Afghanistan

Published on Dec 01, 2009

The Technology of Craft: Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter

weeklyrader.blogspot.com TECHNOLOGY COMES FROM THE Greek word technae , which means art or craft. One wonders what the relationship might be between the technology of Cormac McCarthy's typewriter (above) and the art produced on it. Form does, after all, follow functi...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy's typewriter

Published on Nov 30, 2009

Mad (that the season is over) Men or Mad Men and the Middle East

weeklyrader.blogspot.com HOW IMPORTANT IS MAD MEN ? Important enough for George Packer--the New Yorker journalist whose main projects have been dissecting the complex inner workings of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the American military--to take time out from analyzing the ...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: George Packer, semiotics and Mad Men, George Packer and Mad Men, Mad Men, The New Yorker, burka and Islam, cultural codes, Ahmadinejad, Frank O'Hara and Mad Men, Kabul, repression

Published on Nov 16, 2009

Guest Post: Scott Andrews on Teen Superheroes

weeklyrader.blogspot.com THERE ARE FEW GENRES more conducive to obsession than those of the teen-meets-love-and-danger variety. Here, Scott Andrews takes a look at the recent phenomenon of Teen Superheroes movies. Andrews is an enrolled member of the Cherokee nation of O...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: New Moon, Heroes, Harry Potter, teenage angst, teenage heroes, Twilight

Published on Oct 12, 2009

How The Sunrise Rock Cross Controversy is about Semiotics

weeklyrader.blogspot.com WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT to take down a cross that has stood as a symbol for American soldiers who have died during combat? Well, in part because it is a cross. privileges Christianity, when many soldiers were Jewish or Muslim or Buddhist or agnost...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Supreme Court, religious symbols, Judge Scalia, Thomas Jefferson, Sunrise Rock Cross, semiotics and religion, OBAMA AND SEMIOTICS, separation of church and state

Published on Oct 08, 2009

My Favorite Recent Album: The Granville Hicks

weeklyrader.blogspot.com LAST WEEK WHILE ENJOYING hip pizza in a hipster pizza joint in the hip Mission District of San Francisco, I overheard a table of hipsters talking about The Granville Hicks . Have you seen the album cover? one asked. They look like retarded Ave...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Communism, Marxist Twang, Granville Hicks, Avett Brothers, communist music

Published on Oct 04, 2009

Grading Obama's U.N. Speech

weeklyrader.blogspot.com IT'S A CLASSIC RHETORICAL move. Define who who you are by articulating who you are not. At his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, President Barack Obama made it pretty clear that he is not George W. Bush. The Presiden...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: evaluating Obama's speech to the United Nations, grading Obama's talk, grading Obama, grading the united nations speech, grading Obama's speech

Published on Sep 24, 2009

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