Viral Video

Insider Higher Ed has an interesting piece on a post by an anthropology professor at Kansas State.
See the article here.
See the video here.
Worth your time.

College is not a democracy

The Chronicle has a column by Naomi Schaeffer Riley, a conservative writer whose credits include the WSJ and National Review, advising students that colleges do have rules.  Whether you are from the right or left — your freedoms end where the campus rules begin.   More to the point:
But by now, students, or at least their [...]

Judgements

If you have perused my posts, especially those dealing with policy and/or legislation, you will note that I make judgements on the intent of those promoting their policies.  Many times, I find that my initial judgements were ill informed.  Those times are the result of talking to the initiator, listening, then making an assessment of [...]

Dead poets and politicians

Actually, the way society respects each is diametrically opposed.  Dead poets, at least the good ones, rise in respect. Dead politicians (dead in the political realm, not corporeal), well, as a friend once said:
No one wastes goodbyes on  dead politicians
Anon

Blast from the past

Found the blog of a good high school friend…
She seems to have regressed to old english … but otherwise, she is dabbling with lots of Web 2.0 tools for her teaching.

Y2K - Ver 2.0

Time, or the measurement thereof, has been an important tool for the military and governments for centuries.  Congress in its infinite wisdom has decided to change the date for daylight savings time switching to March 11 — 4 weeks earlier than usual (this was done in 2005 — so don’t blame the new majority for [...]

Cost of Freedom

An editorial by the Augusta Chronicle is concerned about the costs to human freedom that may be incurred as a result of proposed abatement of global warming.
Why don’t they have the same concern when it comes to the proposed infringment on liberties created by our responses to terrorism?
If you were to calculate probabilities of being [...]