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Earth Wide Moth's notes on readings from the genre theory class he's taking this summer. Hope to see more of these, since I can...

I've got a couple of projects to get done between now and the end of June, so my blogging will be light-to-nonexistent until then. (If I...

Areté on " non-western authorship " EastSouthWestNorth on " The Lies That The Elders Told " Rhetorica: Press-Po...

In blog-time, this is slightly old news, but I'll post it anyway: MOE Grants 90M to THU May 7, 2005 90 million NT dollars was granted to...

Clyde and I have been having a nice chat over on Scott's blog about the uses of the SSCI in Taiwan, and Scott himself has thrown his tw...

You scored as Cultural Creative . Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends ...

I've got a lot of pics, but it has taken me forever to get around to posting them. And most of them are of old buildings... (Duh!) But h...

Nine o'clock in the evening. It's been raining HARD since yesterday. Living at the top of Dadu Hill (I'm refusing to call it a ...

Mark Swofford's Pinyin News reflects on a Taipei Times report regarding a proposed language requirement for foreign nationals wishing ...

a better tomorrow has a nice post about the use of the phrase "land of contradictions" in much (too much) travel writing. His par...

Some little kids noticed me when I got out of my brother-in-law's car near my in-laws' house Sunday afternoon. One of the kids yelle...

This is not quite in response to a request by Paul Stob at the Blogora for a "quick" definition of rhetoric for use at family-typ...

I've been avoiding responding to the 9th grade Tuba Player 's mention of me in her response to the reading meme. But I figure I'...

For that person who found my blog when searching for "pictures of people being acupunctured," here ya go... sort of... 

The title of White's plenary at the Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics conference was "Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse....

My wife and I just finished watching a rebroadcast of Lien Chan's "historic" speech at Beida and came to the conclusion that o...

My experience of the conference on Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics at the University of Ghent last week was great, particularly because I felt m...

"良藥苦口," my wife tells me (good medicine tastes bitter). Then she gives me the cup of Chinese medicine that is supposed to help bri...

My colleague Michael Jacques had a letter printed in the Taipei Times yesterday on the lack of usable sidewalks in Taichung.

While I'm posting Tunghai-related events, here's some information about this conference that will be held at Tunghai in December. T...