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Into the blue again – Threes

By ~LS~ On April 24, 2007 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes, What I Did Today

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Significant Learning

By ~LS~ On April 24, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Pedagogy

Today and yesterday were great teaching days. We are in the argumentation section of the book. I explained to students that this was hard but that I was confident they could get it. After the lecture and a couple of examples of each type of argument, it did seem like they were getting it. I was happily surprised. One student said it was the easiest thing we’ve learned all year. The only other time a student said that was when I was going over the mistakes that the class made collectively on their speeches and exams. So I got to thinking, what do these two teaching days have in common. The answer: In both cases, I deviated from the book. I’m now wondering to what extent I’m focused on “covering the material” vs. learning. I gave up covering the material for active learning ages ago, but for some reason I [...]

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Emboldening the Enemy

By ~LS~ On April 19, 2007 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Feminism, For Wordies, Humor, Jon Stewart, Political Humor

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Follow the dollar – War Profiteering

By ~LS~ On April 19, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Capitalism and tagged Tagged With: Hillary, Obama, Politics, War

Counterpunch has an article today on how much money Cheney and other war profiteers have made off the Iraq war. It’s so appalling; I can’t believe that this sort of thing doesn’t make headlines in the mainstream news. For instance,

In addition, Cheney’s son-in-law, Philip Perry, Cummings says, was appointed to serve as general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security, and he had been a registered lobbyist for Lockheed who had worked for a law firm representing Lockheed with the Department of Homeland Security.

According to Cummings, less than a month after 9/11, in October of 2001, the Pentagon announced a $20 billion contract for Lockheed for the development of the Joint Strike Fighter, called the F-35. At the time, Edward Aldridge was Undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics, which was responsible for the approval of the contract. Aldridge left his government post in 2003, and [...]

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Water flowing underground – Gratitudes

By ~LS~ On April 17, 2007 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes

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Bowling for Va. Tech

By ~LS~ On April 17, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Michael Moore, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture

Like the rest of the country, I am spending the morning reflecting on and reading about the shootings at Virginia Tech. As one article on Michael Moore’s website puts it, all the usual suspects have lined up along predictable rhetorical lines. Anti-gun control folks say that letting citizens have handguns on the college campus would have enabled students to stop the gunman before he mowed down 32 people. The logic in that boggles me. Gun-control advocates trot out their legislation. Nonetheless, even in the face of all the evidence about gun violence in America, I remain ambivalent about gun control. This is primarily due to a comment my friend, Carolyn D. made after watching Bowling for Columbine. She said something to the effect of if you make all guns illegal, then only the government has guns, and what’s to stop a situation where the government [...]

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