Disturbing Verbing and Pre-verbing

Humorous commentary on the English language trend of creating verbs out of nouns which he calls verbing.

Deflationary Language

In the following recessionary story, numbers and letters deflate instead of inflate, and any word that has a comparative element is changed to its lower or lesser counterpart

A Chantant Ant Anthology

Of the trillions of insects that crawl over this earth, the lowly ants are the most ubiquitous, conspicuous, and universally recognized. They have also been in the news lately. A Harvard professor recently won a Pulitzer prize for his book about ants and their societal behavior. Not long ago, a Science magazine article revealed that a species of leaf-cutter ants has been gardening fungi for 23 million years. So they\u27re not only everywhere, they\u27ve been there forever

Verbo(c)ity

There are two kinds of cities in this country

Football Wusses

An essay comparing football and baseball inspired by George Carlin and Tom Boswell

Update from President Rondeau, Posted Monday, March 23, 2020

COVID-19 Announcement

Cognitive Readiness and Intellectual Leadership for Effective Maritime Advantage: The Naval Postgraduate School Vision & Strategic Framework

The Naval Postgraduate School prepares defense leaders with the intellectual capabilities to meet operational and strategic challenges in a dynamic and complex security environment. As part of the Naval Education Enterprise (NEE), NPS provides defense-focused, naval-unique graduate and ad- vanced education and conducts defense-relevant research that contributes to problem-solving and increased capabilities across the naval services. Expert faculty, experienced in defense and security- related issues, develop and enhance the cognitive readiness of our operationally experienced warrior- scholar students through interdisciplinary graduate education and fundamental research in support of advanced knowledge and skills.1 Cognitive readiness is the critical ability to adapt interactively to an unpredictable, complex, and dynamic environment

Bird Ways

An essay on birds and language related to them

Naval Postgraduate School 2022 Year in Review

In 2022, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) witnessed another year of progress and transformation. NPS continued to strive towards its vision “to become the nation’s leading institution for defense higher education and applied research, delivering transformative solutions and innovative leaders for decisive U.S. seapower and national defense.