Doyle's Blog

In order to not seem like an awful person, I have to start with context: this post is about jokes we made while mocking someone's singin...

So I'm in the earliest stages of brewing up two research projects in the area of listening. I'm describing them here in case former ...

About two years ago, give or take a month, I left Fairfield Baptist Church. Today, I'm probably three or four visits away from re-joinin...

I have a thing I do on Facebook every year, on my birthday, and this is why I do it.  What I do is change the settings so people can't p...

This is a sequel to this post . I've done a bunch more jumprope rhymes since then, so here they are: Connie Wilmarth Tried to kill Dart...

Jenna paid me a visit yesterday. Jenna graduated in 2012, and is about to finish up at U of O law. When she was here, she was cheerful, hard...

This morning, an idea hit me for a new debate format. First I'll describe it, and then I'll work back through my thinking. It's ...

So in the early 1990s, I started participating in the Internet Oracle , all the way back when it was still called the Usenet Oracle. This mo...

From the mid to late nineteen nineties, I lived in Athens, Georgia while I worked on my doctorate at UGA. Two or three times a year I would ...

So I have Ménière's disease. The good news is that it's not fatal, and it does not involve pain. Discomfort, yes; pain, no. The ba...

Let's get the hard-to-believe part right out in the open: I'm a far-left academic who votes Green whenever possible, and today, what...

Two, three weeks ago I went for coffee with a student and three of my colleagues. The student had some nagging questions, and the colleagues...

Elvis took amphetamines to fuel the runaway train of his life. Then, he'd take barbiturates to fall asleep, followed by amphetamines to ...

The mistake we make again and again is declaring an end to history. We think, My entire life has built to this moment, to my current unders...

So back in summer of 2010, it was jump-rope rhymes. This morning, my philosophy professor colleague and former pastor was working on the eul...

Two things I've heard people say they admire about politics are, to be blunt, idiotic. The first is direct language, and the second is i...

So I dreamed that NCU actually did change its mascot, but not to the Cute Puppies. Instead, we became the NCU Wet Willies . The reasoning w...

So last night I started reading The Crescent Through the Eyes of the Cross , by Nabeel Jabbour, and as of now I'm about halfway through ...

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...