Watch this video in which Blake Miller, the ‘Marlboro Marine’ of Fallujah fame describes in his beautiful eastern Kentucky accent what it is like to kill someone and what things are like for him now. Miller saw the people he killed as people, and does not believe it is right to kill people. Who, one … More The Marlboro Marine
XP needs a job. Here are his skills: EDUCATION: MSW with a concentration in Macro Social Work and Community Development WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS: program evaluation; assisted in a variety of reports through writing, editing and formatting as needed; researching social service trends; data analysis for agency reports; advising program coordinators on identification of appropriate performance … More In Which XP Seeks Employment.
Check him out. Wouldn’t you like to have him come to speak at your school? I know I would. I would need to get several departments on board with me to organize this, though. Perhaps for next year. Meanwhile, following the advice of Unsane and inspired by Morphological Confetti and Wandering Caravan, I have been … More Geoffrey Philp
I dreamed that it was the beginning of the fall semester, and over the summer the building had changed. Many people had been hired and I now had to share an office smaller than my old one with two faculty members. Yet our small office was much better laid out than the old ones, and … More Dreams of Peace
But keep reading Agua de Tabasco. Axé.
This week’s best and most beautiful post is by Liprap. Read it, then act. Carlos Pellicer, the modernist poet, was from Villahermosa, Tabasco. He wrote in 1943 of Tabasco in blood, water, earth, sun, and time. . . . /water of Tabasco, I come / water of Tabasco, I go / my lineage is made … More Agua de Tabasco
One Black Man’s Blog has a number of useful points to make on the Jena situation. Perhaps the parents of a few of the black students would have informed the Jena School Board how threatened their children felt if they had been given their right to speak at the school board meeting. According to the … More Donald Washington
I woke up in the middle of the night, which I normally never do, with a new consciousness of the absurdity of the reasons students in one of my classes say they cannot learn. I then moved on to realize how much it would take to unpack two questions from my neighbor: 1. Since Cheney … More Scott Ritter
MD Filter: I am not there yet, either. I favor Montessori schools and I think that, especially in a wrecked school system like that of New Orleans, you should do the best you can to meet the needs of your child and that is it. In general, what I have to say about teaching is … More In Which I Do Not Resemble Jonathan Swift.
This post is unbalanced and unfair. It is judgmental and uncaring. All of these characteristics are unacceptable in a woman. I therefore declare that I am now Jonathan Swift. In claiming his identity, I am being dishonest about my own. I am also emulating a dead white man when I might do better to emulate … More In Which I Resemble Jonathan Swift.
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