Category: Thinking Out Loud
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Perspective
the abortion debate presumes that pregnancy itself contributes nothing essential to the creation of a rights-bearing person
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Help with Annotation
Originally published August 12, 2016. It seemed timely once again, alas. Context is everything. “I need your help with annotation.” “What do you have to annotate?” “English.” “What’s the assignment?” “Just to take notes. On Beowulf.”
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Prayer for Enduring Grading
May I never read another sentence with the adjective “heavy” or the adverb “heavily” in it, describing something that DOES NOT HAVE WEIGHT, EVEN METAPHORICALLY. Sighing. Heavily. Image: Stained glass windows at All Saints Church, Ripley, Yorkshire, by Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Matters of Interpretation 