Oddball
Bandwagon Fans
Bandwagon fans are the economic engine of sports. Being a bandwagon fan means less misery, but it also means less joy.
Political Highway
Political horseshoe? Nolan chart? Political compass? When creating an abstract theory of politics, the political highway rules them all.
Annoying Words: Pretentious
“Pretentious” is the most pretentious word. It allows one to dismiss any intellectual or creative endeavor with no explanation.
In My Dream I’m Drowning
This piece was written for professor Burnside’s Elements of Style class at the University of Dayton. Like everything else from that class, I’m putting it here in the oddball category rather than the academic category. If I remember correctly, the prompt for this one was that every sentence had to be shorter than eight (nine?) words. Maybe the second person was part of the prompt. I forget.
Dear Elon Musk
This was an assignment for Professor Burnside’s “Element’s of Style” class at UD. We were required to write a persuasive letter and every sentence had to have at least 25 words.