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Sometimes
\n the Dowbrigade feels stumped for subjects to Blog on. It’s not that your
\n faithful correspondent lacks
\n for ideas, rants or motivation. Rather, it is that so many fecund
\n fields are off-limits to our free-ranging interest.<\/p>\n
We cannot blog about our place of full-time employment,
\n after an unfortunate incident last semester in which only our wicked wit
\n saved us from untimely termination. We had been observing a self-imposed
\n ban on blogging about our current class or individual students for years,
\n which has since been broadened to include anything even tangentially related
\n to the Institution that Cannot be Named.<\/p>\n
We cannot blog about our part-time, consulting clients We cannot blog about the intimate details of our married We cannot blog about drugs, except in the most clinical We cannot blog about sex, in any meaningful or anecdotal In fact, we cannot blog about women, since if experience That pretty much leaves politics, sports and our cats. We are reduced to meta-blogging like this, and reprinting Sometimes the Dowbrigade feels stumped for subjects to Blog on. It’s not that your faithful correspondent lacks for ideas, rants or motivation. Rather, it is that so many fecund fields are off-limits to our free-ranging interest. We cannot blog about … Continue reading
\n either, as they have indicated a willingness to cancel our contracts if
\n their organizations are in any way associated with the Dowbrigade. This
\n may be because many of their<\/em> clients are government agencies.<\/p>\n
\n life, as we know Norma Yvonne reads the Dowbrigade, and its a bad idea
\n to share a bed with one of your expository subjects. We cannot blog about
\n our very interesting brothers and sister, since some of them have sensitive
\n government jobs and, after all, we really want to be invited to Thanksgiving
\n Dinner at Grandma’s.<\/p>\n
\n and impersonal terms, on advice from our attorney. For the same reason, we
\n cannot blog about a number of our previous adventures and activities, at
\n least until the statute of limitations expires. And for some actions,
\n there is no statute of limitations.<\/p>\n
\n way. See above reference to Norma Yvonne.<\/p>\n
\n has taught us anything, it is that we understand less than nothing about the opposite
\n sex. That is, much of what we thought<\/em> we understood about them has been proven disastrously wrong.<\/p>\n
\n Even there, we have to be careful. If we wrote what we really think
\n about the political situation in this country, we would undoubtedly be
\n institutionalized, assassinated or exiled.<\/p>\n
\n amusing minutiae and telling details from the media pool in which we tread
\n water,
\n waiting for good fortune or bad to deliver us from this literary purgatory.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"