“Confessions of a Marine Corps sensitivity trainer”

  Courtesy of Martin van Creveld’s blog, I discovered an article with that title published in 2000.  It made me laugh out loud, both for the incongruity of its title (after all, the Marines are known for breaking things and killing people, neither of which requires exceptional sensitivity!) and for its humor.  Here’s an excerpt.… Continue reading “Confessions of a Marine Corps sensitivity trainer”

“BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ORANGUTAN?”

  I laughed out loud while reading an account of an innocent academic, thrust headlong into the sturm und drang of theoretical debate over Edgar Allan Poe‘s horror stories and whether they’re racist or not.  It’s a series of screenshots captured by an Imgur user, so I can’t transcribe them all here;  you’ll have to click… Continue reading “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ORANGUTAN?”

“I want to put drinking beer in the Olympics”

  I’m sure many readers have indulged in Wiki-wandering from time to time.  That’s what happens when you look up something on Wikipedia, and something on that page catches your eye, and you click through to find out more about it, and that leads you on to something else, and so on, and so on.… Continue reading “I want to put drinking beer in the Olympics”