The Rhetorical Situation

Hard to tell what is the best thing about this brief clip. JD's announcement that after having just watched Hoosiers , he now likes spo...

We must hang in there and believe that Soon, Oxy, people will be similarly having to remind us that we are "Doctors." Heh.

Solon's favorite blogger over at TalkLeft, TChris, offered up this fascinating post on Sunday, and Harrogate has had it rolling around ...

I saw this on Storytellers last night. I dug it. This is Kid's attempt to write something relevant. From his album Rock N Roll Jesus...

Since we're on the subject of songs we'd forgotten about, here's the perfect thing for a chilled Tuesday in November. This was ...

Readers, what would your entrance music be? Yesterday Harrogate asked his students this "Question of the Day" and got several su...

Back to that famous conversation between Oxymoron, Solon, and Harrogate, on the way to the bar, discussing what is wanted, and what is not w...

One of the things that I constantly tell my composition students is that they need to "show, not tell." That is to say, they shou...

There's a Notre Dame football player named Golden Tate. No, it's not actually Golden Taint, but the announcers sure like saying it ...

Not too long ago, word was that Oxymoron almost made it onto Horowitz's list of the 100 most dangerous college professors. Now, though,...

Okay, Harrogate has to post this, partly to make up for the rants he has levied against Kerry for the incompetent, even anemic campaign he r...

I was thinking about including a section on visual rhetoric in my upcoming freshmen composition course. I thought that I would start with t...

The more Harrogate sees of this blog , the more he likes it. Things keep going the way they're going, somebody's gonna get blogrolle...

Ahhhh, Ambiguity, thy name is WALL-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or as one of oxymoron's students once famously queried, "so you...