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Constitutional Crisis?

I have remained silent on all my anti-social media platforms. As much as I have wanted to respond, correct, engage and persuade, I have…

Nov 6, 2024

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Dog People

One of the great injustices in life is that the average human lifespan is so much longer than that of the average dog. For those of us who…

Dec 30, 2021

Dog People

Dec 30, 2021

Twilight

It’s About Time and… Money

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Twilight

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Whose vernacular?

There is a certain attraction to the informality that AA (and NA and other "As") deal with the disease of alcoholism (yea, they call it…

Jan 6

Jan 6

This, from a basic argumentation theory standpoint, is a terrible argument because it is so easily…

Dec 19, 2024

Dec 19, 2024

In Another life

As if in another life, almost another world, and certainly when I was a much different man, I wore many different hats. They have been ball…

Dec 11, 2024

In Another life

Dec 11, 2024

every.single.fucking.day

Twenty years ago today I “celebrated” my 42nd trip around the sun. Why the scare quotes? There are two reasons, really. The first is simple…

Dec 6, 2024

every.single.fucking.day

Dec 6, 2024

It doesn't.

If a diabetic (to use an AA analogy I am sure you have heard before) does not test his or her blood, does not adjust his or her diet, does…

Dec 6, 2024

Dec 6, 2024

Home Again — Redux

My hometown high school in Los Altos was part of a three-school district called the Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District…

Nov 29, 2024

Home Again — Redux

Nov 29, 2024

Semester’s End… Again

Getting a spike in student emails at the end of the semester, right when the “big things” are coming due, is nothing new. It happens every…

Nov 27, 2024

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Michael Althouse

Michael Althouse

Lecturer/professor of communication studies at California State University, Sacramento. www.michaelalthouse.com

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