Eclectic Muddlehood

Oh, put a stake in me!  I just can’t take all this mamby-pamby boo-hooing about the bloody Indians.  You won.  Alright?  You came in and you killed them and you took their land.  That’s what conquering nations do.  It’s what Julius Caesar did.  He’s not going around saying, “I came, I conquered, I felt really […]

I blame my college roomate entirely for this malady that strikes me full force every fall.  And now with the recent addition of DVR to my life, I shal never rid myself of it.  She is in the television business and decided that was what she was going to do about halfway through college or […]

Normally I waste as little mental effort as possible on professional football players, but as I indulge myself in my weekly dose of Dancing With the Stars I feel compelled to say a few words about my favorite contestant, Emmitt Smith. Most of the moronic imbeciles mouthing off on national television calling themselves “professional” athletes […]

Ask just about any woman who has experienced pregnancy and she’ll tell you how challenging the last couple of months can be physically, but even more so mentally and emotionally. I remember how impatient and irritable I was in August 2003. It was hot and muggy and there was nothing good on television.This time it’s […]

Almost every one of my childbirth ed students can easily recollect the sitcom episode when Murphy Brown gives birth, screaming like a lunatic, shaking her support people like ragdolls as she strangles them. It is a cultural image burned into the mind and spirit of most childbearing women I come across these days. As a […]