Equal Time for Garrett!
Iraqis: life is getting better-News-TimesOnline
Plus, offered this Spring through Portland Adult Education:
"PORTLAND JUNTO
Instructors: Peter Wannemacher
Do you prefer discussing over disputing? How would you like to have people listen and respond instead of ignore and react? The Portland Junto is a 21st century version of a polite discussion group established by Benjamin Franklin in Colonial America. In 1727, Mr. Franklin asked a few of his acquaintances to meet regularly in order to discuss and debate "in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory." He called it Junto. Out of those discussions came such ideas as the public library, volunteer fire departments, and paved roads. In these meetings a small group will gather once a week to present and listen to ideas. There will be rules of politeness and a moderator and plenty of opportunity to learn from others in your community. Topics will be selected by the group. #1602; Mondays5/2-5/30; 6:00-8:00 PM; 5 SessionsDeering High School, Room 115 Course fee $35/45"
BTW, the "Vote Different" parody video (posted March 7) seems to have been created and seeded on the Internet by somebody with connections to the Obama campaign... (More at FOXNews.com - Creator of Anti-Hillary Clinton YouTube Ad is Ex-Employee of Firm Linked to Obama Campaign
Plus, offered this Spring through Portland Adult Education:
"PORTLAND JUNTO
Instructors: Peter Wannemacher
Do you prefer discussing over disputing? How would you like to have people listen and respond instead of ignore and react? The Portland Junto is a 21st century version of a polite discussion group established by Benjamin Franklin in Colonial America. In 1727, Mr. Franklin asked a few of his acquaintances to meet regularly in order to discuss and debate "in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory." He called it Junto. Out of those discussions came such ideas as the public library, volunteer fire departments, and paved roads. In these meetings a small group will gather once a week to present and listen to ideas. There will be rules of politeness and a moderator and plenty of opportunity to learn from others in your community. Topics will be selected by the group. #1602; Mondays5/2-5/30; 6:00-8:00 PM; 5 SessionsDeering High School, Room 115 Course fee $35/45"
BTW, the "Vote Different" parody video (posted March 7) seems to have been created and seeded on the Internet by somebody with connections to the Obama campaign... (More at FOXNews.com - Creator of Anti-Hillary Clinton YouTube Ad is Ex-Employee of Firm Linked to Obama Campaign
Syllabus & Assignments Update
Okay, today, we'll kill some electrons instead of trees... :-)
Tonight, Tao of Pooh and Honors discussion. At right, "The Vinegar tasters."
Thursday, Hotel Rwanda.
Before Thursday, read and listen to the full radio segment at NPR : Paul Rusesabagina, No 'Ordinary Man'
and
Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(As usual, there could be a quiz!)
Tues., April 3:
Read "Soccer vs. McWorld" from Global Issues, to be presented by Joanna & Sarah B.
Thurs., April 5:
EASTER BREAK!
Tues., April 10: Read Pooh, "Spelling Tuesday," and "Cottleston Pie."
Tonight, Tao of Pooh and Honors discussion. At right, "The Vinegar tasters."
Thursday, Hotel Rwanda.
Before Thursday, read and listen to the full radio segment at NPR : Paul Rusesabagina, No 'Ordinary Man'
and
Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(As usual, there could be a quiz!)
Tues., April 3:
Read "Soccer vs. McWorld" from Global Issues, to be presented by Joanna & Sarah B.
Thurs., April 5:
EASTER BREAK!
Tues., April 10: Read Pooh, "Spelling Tuesday," and "Cottleston Pie."
Question of the Day
"If 50 Cent was actually worth 50 cents when he was born in 1975, adjusting for inflation, what would his name be today?"
(from You Don't Know Jack: Online)
Links for the Day
Did Al get the science right? Salon News
"Draft Gore. He has participated in a lampoon of his defeat, has at least one web forum devoted to what might have been and may yet be, has his own web site, his own Wiki page, is an Academy Award winner, is encouraged to run by at least one major newspaper , and has numerous web sites devoted to encouraging him to run. His competion? Jeb Bush, (if there is any justice in this world, please let it be the Jeb miester), Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. I predict a landslide of unprecedented proportions. Metafilter before ." (via Metafilter)
Cult of Personality
Vote Different?
"Draft Gore. He has participated in a lampoon of his defeat, has at least one web forum devoted to what might have been and may yet be, has his own web site, his own Wiki page, is an Academy Award winner, is encouraged to run by at least one major newspaper , and has numerous web sites devoted to encouraging him to run. His competion? Jeb Bush, (if there is any justice in this world, please let it be the Jeb miester), Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. I predict a landslide of unprecedented proportions. Metafilter before ." (via Metafilter)
Cult of Personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo
Vote Different?
Assignment for this Week, plus SPRING BREAK READING ASSIGNMENT!
Oh, how I can hear the gnashing of teeth now! Fear not, there's not much reading over Spring Break, and at the very least you should find it quick and enjoyable... :-)
So, be sure to read the Foreword, "The How of Pooh?" and "The Tao of Who?" in your Pooh over Break. THERE WILL BE A QUIZ & DISCUSSION ON TUESDAY, MARCH 20! (Plus, and I know you're waiting on the edges of your collective seats for this, we'll also give you that day the Capstone daily schedule for the remainder of the semester! Stay tuned!!)
Then (or - perhaps I should say - "before"), read Global Issues, “Nuclear Now” & “Looking Into the Sun” (Articles 27 & 28) plus the brief handouts I'll give you on Tuesday night for Thursday, March 8. (Again, discussion will be on the menu, and - be warned - a quiz could also be on deck!) Remember also that your letters to the editor midterm will be due on that day!
So, be sure to read the Foreword, "The How of Pooh?" and "The Tao of Who?" in your Pooh over Break. THERE WILL BE A QUIZ & DISCUSSION ON TUESDAY, MARCH 20! (Plus, and I know you're waiting on the edges of your collective seats for this, we'll also give you that day the Capstone daily schedule for the remainder of the semester! Stay tuned!!)
Then (or - perhaps I should say - "before"), read Global Issues, “Nuclear Now” & “Looking Into the Sun” (Articles 27 & 28) plus the brief handouts I'll give you on Tuesday night for Thursday, March 8. (Again, discussion will be on the menu, and - be warned - a quiz could also be on deck!) Remember also that your letters to the editor midterm will be due on that day!
Running the Numbers
"Running the Numbers is a look at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper; 106,000 aluminum cans and so on.This project visually examines the vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from tens-of-thousands of smaller photographs."
For example, above "depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds."
UPDATED: Johnson & "How to Draw a Bunny"
Available on DVD and streaming now on Netflix... (Seriously!)
Johnson, I had no idea that your bunnies seem to be revolutionizing 21st-Century Art!
Johnson, I had no idea that your bunnies seem to be revolutionizing 21st-Century Art!
UPDATED: BTW, found this to keep your Devo collection up to date!
:-)
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