I'm not a fan of the Emmys, have always found Jimmy Fallon annoying, and I gave up on Glee a long time ago but this is wonderful. I especially adored seeing Jorge Garcia out there.
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06:19:11 PM,
Monday 30 August 2010
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This is a real thing that you can buy
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03:13:09 PM,
Monday 30 August 2010
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Hi Shakers! I never in a million years expected my little blog to get linked from Shakesville. Thanks!
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07:24:03 PM,
Friday 27 August 2010
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Reading about the 9th Ward still makes me cry. There are few places in the modern US where we can stand and see how thoroughly our government (as in, one elected by people who are among us right this minute) has harmed our fellow human beings. This was not a natural disaster, this was not some past government, this was not our forebearers' fault, although they certainly are responsible for creating the societal inequities which remain and contributed. But we, right here right now, for choosing the politicians we have, allowing the Army Corps to operate the way it does, or, alternately, remaining ignorant of how our government works, are responsible for this:
The reason it looks like the houses in the background are stacked on top of each other is that a number of them used to be in the "field" in the foreground and were transported by the flood.
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11:36:52 AM,
Friday 27 August 2010
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So, it turns out that all of the stories of violence in the convention center and the Superdome were lies and the stories of white vigilantism and lynching and murderous cops shooting innocent people were true. And it only took 5 years for the truth to come out.
I still want to go back to New Orleans and do more to help the city. But I would be looking even more skeptically at the folks in power.
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04:27:07 PM,
Thursday 26 August 2010
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I just spent 6 hours in TA training. If hadn't already taken a semester course on teaching biology, gone to many hours of workshops, spent a year in the Preparing Future Faculty program, TAed four classes, and designed and taught a class at a liberal arts college, it might have been a little bit useful.
It just suddenly occurred to the department that they had never trained us and so now they started in a way that was just a little bit condescending. The best part was when they asked one of the new professors to talk to us about his knowledge and experience, and it turns out he TAed a year in grad school and that's pretty much it for training. Seriously.
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03:07:10 PM,
Wednesday 25 August 2010
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Washington Monthly's ranking of colleges and universities in terms of public good and service is really, really neat. I love seeing Morehouse at the top of the liberal arts colleges list, primarily because they educate so many young men who receive Pell Grants and then go on to do good in the world. Good ole Pseudo Ivy is not doing so hot, on % receiving Pell Grants, or community service, Peace Corps placement, etc.
SJC, I think, does pretty well for what we are. Among other things, we are # 2 in Peace Corps placement for liberal arts colleges (second only to Reed). Very interesting.
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11:52:23 AM,
Tuesday 24 August 2010
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I'm not feeling so bad these days, but I stumbled upon this Emily Dickinson poem, and just yes.
Pain--has an Element of Blank--
It cannot recollect
When it begun--or if there were
A time when it was not--
It has no Future--but itself--
Its Infinite contain
Its Past--enlightened to perceive
New Periods--of Pain.
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05:13:38 PM,
Monday 23 August 2010
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This is truly awesome.
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11:25:23 AM,
Monday 23 August 2010
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