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Random Numbers

By ~LS~ On June 28, 2008 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Random Numbers

Danica

By ~LS~ On June 28, 2008 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Gender, Pop Culture, Sexism

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People from college who I remember

By ~LS~ On June 27, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Political Humor, Texas

I was ruminating on my college days the other day and I had a flash of thought about people I knew briefly during the drunken haze at UT. These are people who didn’t know me, people I -barely- knew. They were charismatic enough to remember after all these years.

1. Paul Begala. Yes, I knew him when. He didn’t know me. At the time we were at school, there was no student government. The reason is a complicated story not really worth repeating. Paul Begala worked tirelessly to get student government renewed on campus, a campaign that I worked on by collecting signatures. Then, of course, he ran for president. Wikipedia succinctly explains what happened, so I’m cutting and pasting rather than writing it myself, since I’m lazy:

While at the University of Texas, Begala was a candidate for student government president. However, he finished second to a write-in [...]

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Pew Study on Religion

By ~LS~ On June 27, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Religion

Of course Dinesh D’Souza had to go and comment on the Pew Study on Religion, too. He makes the same point that I cited in my blog post below about people being shallow, but of course he frames them in a usual anti-postmodernist screed. He writes:
There are two kinds of pluralism: the kind that holds that truth does not matter, and the kind that holds that truth matters greatly but as flawed human beings our reason and experience gives us only limited access to the truth. The first kind of pluralism is deadly for religion, and is typically embraced by flaccid people who are too lazy to think or who have been seduced by postmodernist flimflam. The second kind of pluralism is the shared ground of debate between intelligent believers and unbelievers. The stakes could not be higher.

This line of thinking is so frustrating [...]

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Random Musings – Gen Y Goes to College

By ~LS~ On June 26, 2008 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pedagogy, Random Musings, The Web and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Generations, Goals, Information Literacy, Teaching Speech, Technoculture, Technology

There’s a great article in Slate by Michael Agger a couple of weeks ago about how we read on the web. Apparently we don’t really read as much as skim. This is based on interesting research cited in the article. My website doesn’t really fit the guidelines that ‘experts’ advocate in order to retain audiences. There’s also a great article in this month’s the Atlantic Monthly, Is Google Making Us Stupid, which takes a media ecology approach to the web, citing the Phaedrus, McLuhan, and Mumford, among others. The article was a long column, which I had to scroll over, and it didn’t have any bullet points, so I only skimmed it! No, kidding. I read it. He makes the standard argument that all critics of new media do, we are losing our ability to think linearly, critically, and substantively. He concludes by saying, “as we come to [...]

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Threes

By ~LS~ On June 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes, What I Did Today

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