ReddHedd over at Firedoglake has a tremendous post up today talking about the importance of a society taking care of its own, and how much harder that seems to be to do today. It doesn’t really have any answers, but it does a great job at starting to ask some key questions. It is somewhat […]
So I was channel surfing a few hours ago and came across a rerun of a special on Richard Pryor. This particular segment dealt with Pryor’s use of taboo language, and I watched for a few minute before I realized two things: 1) The network was not censoring out all of the taboo words. Especially […]
Sal Palantonio has a column up on ESPN.com saying that Eagles coach Andy Reid needs to change his ways and relinquish some of his decision-making authority within the organization. He says, “the team needs an independent advocate, somebody separated from the management structure that has run the Eagles franchise with very mixed results.” OK. The […]
Today is a day I am so glad I didn’t pursue a career in newspapers. The West Virginian coal mine tragedy was compounded by a lapse in communication that led families and the public to think for three hours or so that most of the miners had survived, when in reality only one did. The […]
When I was looking for the Dewey misquote that formed the launching pad for the “Think for Themselvesâ€? post, one of the places I found the quote was an article by Amber Pawlik advocating home schooling. The author offers a number of quotes from Dewey’s writings – and unlike the “think for themselvesâ€? line, the […]
Mark Wagner is back on the blogging beat with a discussion of Dewey’s Pedagogic Creed. It’s one of Dewey’s earlier works, so I haven’t studied it as much as I have his later writings. But Mark’s post is really good at analyzing Dewey from an educator’s perspective as opposed to a philosopher’s. And I’ve jumped […]
You’d think that conservative opponents of John Dewey would have their hands full dealing with what the man wrote over the course of his lifetime. But that hasn’t stopped some bizarre misquotes from working their way into the conversation. A few weeks ago my Technorati watchlist pulled up a blog that contained the following statement, […]
I’m trying to straighten up my basement, and I thought I was having problems. Then I read this feature on Rebelscum about the effort to organize Stephen Sansweet’s collection of Star Wars memorabilia. Outside of the Lucasfilm archives, I don’t think anyone has more Star Wars stuff than Sansweet – and he could probably give […]
One of the feeds I track on my home page is Wil Wheaton’s blog. Recently he put up a fairly long post following up on an essay he wrote for Salon about Christmas dinner with his parents. A political discussion turned emotional, and when Wil wrote about it, his parents thought he was being unfair, […]