May 10, 2008 archive
May 10 2008
Well, they’ll always have each other….
May 10 2008
Funkalicious Friday: Boogie On!
What is the meaning of Boogie? Wikipedia has one answer. I (unsurprisingly) have another. Boogie is what makes me boogie. Or…..alternatively….songs that have boogie in the title.
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May 10 2008
Friday Night at 8: Smashing Idols
Abraham hung out at his father Terah’s idol store one day, while Terah was out doing some errand or another. Abraham wasn’t terribly impressed by the idols. He had some other ideas about what made the world go round. The story goes that while Terah was gone, Abraham smashed all the idols except the largest one.
When Terah came home, he asked Abraham, “What happened?” Abraham replied that all the idols had gotten into a big fight and the largest idol won!
Now of course Terah knew this was hogwash but he couldn’t very well respond that it was impossible for idols to get into fistfights without admitting that idols were not real and not worth worshipping.
I like Biblical stories. Even though I am hardly a Biblical scholar of any kind, I find them useful as basic descriptions of so many of the joys and miseries of humanity.
May 10 2008
Winter Soldiers – Congress – May 15th
Mark your calendars, History on our Military Occupations will, sadly, be made once again, as the Conflict Rages, the Truth be told!
Below you will find cuts from an IVAW Newsletter along with some well deserved recognition on the airing of the ‘Winter Soldier Testimony’ on March 14th to the 16th 2008.
May 10 2008
Friday Philosophy: Judgment
I should be busting my ass grading the quality of work submitted by my students. But I’m a bit under the weather. I don’t enjoy feeling like I can’t catch my breath. The new drug helps with that somewhat. but there is a dizziness factor that comes with.
So I let my students down a bit. I didn’t go in to my office on the day the projects were due. We can hopefully work things out by Monday. Monday is when grades are due.
I don’t enjoy grading. No good teacher that I know of enjoys the grading. It is fraught with disappointment that the students didn’t do better. One has to establish a bit of distance and concentrate on the fact that what they did learn probably outweighs what they didn’t.
When one has small classes it becomes easier to confuse judging the work done in a class with judging the human being. How much value does one assign motivation, curiosity, and understanding the larger picture, to the ability to understand that this patch of learning is but part of a larger tapestry. All one can ask is that the students give honest effort. But how elusive is the measurement of “honest effort”?
May 10 2008
Pony Party: NEw RuLeS? no. nEw wOrdS
our very own masslass would really like to do a pony or two every once-in-a-while. but she’s just too damned shy. so i offer this v.v.v. funny list on her behalf.
enjoy………………
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