News item: Boy Scout suspended for being prepared
The suspension of Zacharie Christie is the latest tomfoolery in zero-sense discipline policies, because the tyke decided to bring his Boy Scout cutlery to school. Next: Fox News special on the Evil Spork. And this brings to mind a parody of medieval-fandom-society “weapons at the door” policies: A Bard was next whose goodly Voice has […]
“Timmy’s legislator let him do it!”
I don’t know what I’m more disgusted at, last week’s dismissal of official-misconduct charges against Florida Rep. Ray Sansom, or news that something very similar has been happening in Virginia with state Senator Tommy Norment and the College of William and Mary and state Delegate Phil Hamilton and Old Dominion University (IHE hat tip). Hamilton […]
One Blog Schoolhouse: the PDF
Should’ve been done a few months ago, but if you want to read the entire text of One Blog Schoolhouse, it’s now available as a nonprinting PDF. (I recommend that you click the “PDF” link in brackets, since I don’t know if scribd will convert a nonprinting PDF.) The entire thing. Absolutely free to read.
Outside cultural studies classes, “Love Boat” != instructional material
Apparently a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor used state funds to purchase DVDs of various television series, including Love Boat, Family Ties, and Get Smart. (Hat tip.) The explanation was that he would use clips “to illustrate aspects of business and management.” Reality check: I use cartoons in lectures. I also buy the materials I […]
And now, a break from the normal type of entry on this blog
Wow (backup for citation, since the Nobel’s servers are slammed right now). In the perennial struggle to decide whether the Nobel Peace Prize should be a Courage Award or a Behavioral Reinforcement for Moving in the Right Direction, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee used the 2009 award for the latter. I think the prize committee […]