Two of the “acquire an alternative skill set with real world application” assignments that we teach in composition are 1) how to build and manage a wiki and 2) how to compose a PowerPoint presentation that doesn’t cause your audience to slit your throat or their wrists. I combine them into a single assignment in […]
Month: November 2009
Elisha.
I was stuck in a traffic jam yesterday afternoon and I happened onto the local right-wing talk radio station. Out of morbid curiosity I ended up spending about half an hour listening to Michael Savage
Lithwick does a good job of summarizing the issues surrounding upcoming oral arguments about whether the 8th Amendment proscribes life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, but one set of facts under consideration raises another set of questions: Terrance Jamar Graham tried to rob a restaurant with two accomplices. He was charged as an adult and pled guilty. […]
What I…er, I mean, “(white male) independents in the suburbs (the only constituency in America whose views should matter)” want is for the government to acknowledge that Herbert Hoov
Weigel Ackerman gets there: Hasan is alive. He will be interrogated and tried. We will presumably learn soon why he committed the cowardly actions he committed. Until then, those who speculate only re
Reflections from Mark Schmitt.
Spencer “It’s a good thing I’m a damn fine reporter or people might hate me for writing stuff like this” Ackerman: Thank you merciless, remorseless, unforgiving, unblinking wea
Nothing to say right now, beyond the hope that the perpetrators are caught, and that there are no further injuries or deaths. A tragedy.
I’ve always found the approach to religious neutrality employed by (amongst many other countries) France, which includes a ban on religious headscarves in public schools, to be deeply misguided and paternalistic at best, and thinly veiled racism at worst. This anecdote certainly doesn’t do much to change my mind: When (the Stasi Commission) looked for […]
You may remember, in one of the worst slippery slope arguments ever, school district lawyers objecting to the Supreme Court’s salutary decision in Safford School District v. Redding because it m
Absolutely classic Goldberg. I couldn’t even make up someone who talks about the “moral superstructure” of shitty George Lucas movies, and goes on to discuss silly ideas with even mo