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One more almost unreadable student paper for 2009…
After trying to decipher Chuck’s handwriting with all those scribbles and crossouts, I will never, ever complain about my own students again.
What can graphic novels teach us about verbs in static displays?
I’m in my office this afternoon for a few hours getting some work-related puttering done. While I’m procrastinating on the puttering for a few minutes, I want to talk aloud (or write publicly) about some thoughts I had in the last few days about how graphic novels convey verbs. Here’s the problem: most forms of […]
Sometimes, negotiations are tough slogging because they’re tough
Whether in reference to the Obama administration, the AFT, academic administrators at some universities, Iran, or some other entity, my personal news reading and listening in the last week has been full of finger-pointing about reneging on deals, backing away from apparent deals, undermining good trends, falsifying promising hints, or ruining fresh minty breath. It […]
In no language either is there the phrase “as quiet as an airport”
Heard on the Philadelphia International Airport intercom. Or at least the small bits I could “understand”… THIS IS A BOARDING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PASSENGER GRISENSD PLEASE GO TO TRUMP ATE FERRITINOUS PAGING WE NEED YOU AT GATE WYNNEWOOD NARBUHTH ARDMORE HAVERFORD BRYN MAWR ROSEMONTCODE PHILLIES WAITING RAIN DELAY HAS WITHDRAWN FROM DANCING WITH THESTARS SEEN ELOPING IN NEXT MONTH’S […]
Every 24 minutes: why it’s time to vote on the health care bill
By Sherman Dorn on March 4, 2010
Two years ago, a friend I’ve known for more than 40 years who works at the Urban Institute updated the Institute of Medicine’s estimate of the annual excess deaths in the U.S. due to lack of insurance. In 2008, the updated estimate was 22,000 annual excess deaths. That’s an average of one preventable death about […]
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