Doyle's Blog

Walking is superior to bicycling. My feet will never go flat before, during or after my walk. Jesus never rode a bicycle on water. "The...

Just like last summer, I've spent the past three months checking a lot of movies out of the Eugene Public Library. Here, without further...

So this morning I heard, on NPR, a man from Tucson argue that it was a good idea to force college campuses to allow people to carry handguns...

Students who take more than one class from me get accustomed to hearing fresh riffs on a running analogy. Here, I'm going to set down th...

I've got about six weeks to get my submissions written for this year's National Communication Association convention. Two of my pape...

I don't know if anything like this happened when I was ten years old. My memory doesn't reach back that far. But when I was twenty, ...

When at home, I fart Unapologetic'ly. Pt. Pt. Pt. Pt. Pt.

Time for a new chapter. Today I got my course evaluations from the term that just ended, and they made plain to me how urgent it is that I c...

I know all the fake arguments in favor of colleges having football teams (building work ethic, learning to function in a team environment, t...

So it struck me again this morning what a hard time the Second Amendment folks have keeping their story straight when it comes to their arti...

So I've noticed, just this fall, that the mighty wave of girls named Madison from the past generation or so has started to break across ...

Where's Sarah Palin when you need her? Is there some sort of Palin-911 I can dial? I've got this neat set of really sharp steak kniv...

This is another silly word game that goes here just so I can look back years from now and shake my head over the wastes of time that I turne...

I have a Palm Z72, a stone-age precursor of the iPad, that goes everywhere with me. I bought it three or four years ago, and I use it as my ...

In 1996, I yanked the plug on my cable TV. In the ensuing fourteen years, I haven't been a TV watcher, and I've noticed some huge be...

I remember, in my doctoral seminar on rhetorical criticism, nailing down the difference between a diachronic and synchronic angle of attac...

By the power vested in me as a professor of rhetoric, I'm begging , pleading with the human race, and particularly people who write for ...

I stopped going to church around the time I turned fourteen, and returned just a few months after my thirty-second birthday. Both the stoppi...

So I got to thinking this morning about male nipples, and not for the first time. Nipples aren't sex-linked; they're like arms, legs...

I often wonder why in the world God spoils me so much. I wonder why He built into me so many quirks and eccentricities that incline me towar...

We have no reason to believe that we are living in the end times. None. Get out your Bible, painful though it may be, and read Matthew 24. S...

I just was treated to a bad argument that I enjoyed enormously. And I don't mean "enjoyed" in the sense of belittling it, but ...

I have to confess that I don't get cheerleading, and in particular competitive cheerleading. Cheerleading originally had as its purpose ...

So there's this so-called imponderable question that makes the rounds in all the lists: why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? I've s...

This was originally a Facebook note. I posted it to explain why I was cutting back from 400+ friends to about a tenth that many. My take on ...

The Freshman's Alphabet Waltz You, in a world of expanding diameter Here's some advice in dactylic tetrameter A is abandon , so leav...

More and more I get the disturbing feeling that what I teach in the classroom has a lot in common with multivitamins, and not in a good way....