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Where’s Neil Postman when you need him?

I’m contemplating teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 (“The Typographic Mind”). I don’t feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn’t find a pdf or doc… Read more

Another reason to like Hillary

Nonverbal communication expresses power and dominance. In public, professional settings, who gets to touch whom and the nature of that touch plays out and defines gender relations. Because it’s typically subtle, people are often unaware of this… Read more

Whoopi and Disney

I adore Whoopi. Ever since I saw her Direct From Broadway show on HBO many years ago. I haven’t seen the 2oth anniversary version, though I would really like to. In the orignal HBO special, her character Fontaine, who is a junkie, goes to the Anne… Read more

Whoopi ~ Rape-rape

I adore Whoopi. She can do little wrong in my eyes. I’m soooo disappointed in her lame defense of Roman Polanski. I don’t know what to think. It’s like her brain slid out of her head and onto the… Read more

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