by Jan Bear | May 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
Medford girl waddles with pet duckSo what I want to know is why she didn’t get offered a scholarship to the University of Oregon.Just asking.
by Jan Bear | May 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
When I told someone recently that I “hated” The Da Vinci Code, I had to clarify that I don’t disrespect people who like it. I don’t understand why people take their literary taste so seriously.A couple of years ago, I went to a presentation on...
by Jan Bear | Mar 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
Stephen King’s new thriller, Cell, reminds me of how compelling King can be, in a way that leaves me feeling manipulated and used. He shows a deep-rooted “damned mass” view of human nature, even while he displays authorial hate for characters within...
by Jan Bear | Mar 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
After years of “edginess” and “speaking truth to power,” Borders Bookstores (and its little brother Waldenbooks) has rolled over before the Islamist fringe.Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry...
by Jan Bear | Mar 18, 2006 | Uncategorized
The George Mason University Speech Accent Archive.Native and non-native English speakers from around the world read a short paragraph, giving a flavor of what makes their pronunciation different.
by Jan Bear | Mar 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
He’s on the dining room table eating your dinner and growling at you.This symposium in Front Page Magazine explains what the cartoon fracas was really all about, in the context of increasing incidents of gang rape of non-veiled women:The conduct towards these...