On this page are jokes, parodies, lies, informal writing on nonphilosophical (more or less) topics.

• Postmodernism, philosophy's midlife crisis, is doomed because of France's inability to build a sportscar.


• Draft plan for preserving collegiality and making painless budget cuts


• As part of the University President's initiative to make faculty more productive as scholars, unproductive faculty members have been signed up in various sections of this course.


• HSU's cutting-edge initiative to increase retention and graduation rates, decrease dropouts and stopouts, and reduce students' regrettable tendencies to get more education than they actually need.
  


• The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Position announcement for Dean of the College.
  


• A news release from the Mercedes Hood Ornament Collectors Association
  


• Orgone University's Time Schedule for This Semester's Self-Improvement Courses
  


• Final Exam (objective, multiple-choice) for the Philosophy of Sex and Love course. How will you do?
  


• An answer person column put together with my fey kids.
  


• A simulation/role-playing game prospectus for assistant professors, with the dark object of getting tenure. I'm looking for someone to do the graphics programming to fill this in.
  


• Have a computer name your child.
  


• MTV to Become OTV? News release: MTV giving up on popular but unprofitable heavy metal, goes to opera.
  


• Being and Nothing, a Platonic dialogue among Dolly Parton, Marty Robbins, and Socrates, with background music by Johnny Cash.
  
 
• Mission Statement and Call for Papers for Anon.--the only journal in the world not about ego.
  


• The Physics of Christmas: at long last, what seemed to be impossibilities are explained.
  


• Back labels for wines from my brother's vinyard and winery in Missouri.
  

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