As I keep saying, I'm an English professor, teaching Freshman Composition. Every term I see students doing substandard work, ignoring basic instructions, and trying to get away with texting as opposed to joining the class. Now, we have the conception that success in school is a matter of intellect, that the smartest students are going to be the most successful students.  read more »

Being the avid gamer that I am, I do tend to run into a lot of things that annoy me in video games. One of the bigger annoyances for me happens to be the nameless, voiceless protagonist.  read more »

For about ten years, I've had the idea that "rapture," being born again, nirvana, enlightenment, and whatever else we want to call it, are all the same basic feeling of connectedness to the world around us. And since we are biologically, chemically, and physically part of that cosmos, there's some possibility of a scientific basis for it as well.  read more »

I saw a woman on the train today reading a book titled What Men Want. I was tempted to tell her, "Shave the mustache." Would that have been wrong?  read more »

It seems that everywhere I turn, I see women reading Twilight, and from what I've heard, it isn't a very good book, and the movie is even worse, but it's being nominated for MTV movie awards. Clearly, it's not literary talent that is making a mediocre story into a cultural icon. The reason isn't the book but the character. Chicks dig vampires.  read more »

'Great Sex: God's Way'.
These billboards are out there (waaaay out there, in Alabama to be specific) causing quite a stir with the local folk.
Four words, and a community goes up in arms.
No, not s-e-x on a billboard!!! Not those letters!  read more »

"Man goes berserk on bus in Manitoba," the article reads. Eli Roth couldn't make this shit up.
Keeping in mind that this guy was successfully able to plead insanity, I urge you to take a look at your fellow commuters next time you're on the bus or train..  read more »

This is The Jodan and Krillin42 discussing the ethical implications of a game that is basically a rape simulator. Please note that we're totally new to this whole podcasting thing and are learning on the go. Welcome to our education.  read more »

Sometimes I feel like a masochist when I’m gaming. There is one particular genre of game that continually kicks my ass, pisses me off, sends me into controller smashing rages, and makes me want to choke nearby living beings, but I keep on playing them; even though I actually don’t like it all that much.  read more »

I’m never really surprised anymore about the things people choose to complain about recently. Even so, this one sort of caught me by surprise on quite a few levels. As the story goes, Amazon, our friendly neighborhood everything salesman, started, then stopped selling the English patched version of the Japanese game Rapelay.  read more »