September 2005

Linda McCullough: U R sew write!

September 22, 2005

Montana’s Superintendent of Public Schools, Linda McCullough, has some intriguing ideas about education, specifically about writing. At a recent meeting with the Board of Public Education, McCullough offered this insight: Superintendent McCulloch questioned how “pertinent” writing is in “today’s world.” She believes that since kids communicate via email, using abbreviations and creative spelling, “we can’t [...]

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Wanted: An Active Press

September 20, 2005

I speak often in my role as an arm-chair media critic, however, the release of Project Censor’s “Top 25 of 2006” list is worthy of close examination. Project Censor releases a yearly report that details stories that weren’t necessarily censored, but received less media coverage than justified based on the facts or nature of the [...]

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I already gave at home

September 20, 2005

There are numerous stories out today that cover the newest diversion for the already overloaded and ineffectual agency. What is that diversion you ask? Porn. That’s right, porn.

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A Terrible Love of War

September 19, 2005

I can’t recommend A Terrible Love of War by James Hillman enough. Hillman, though a psychologist, approaches the subject of war–and our mutual attraction and aversion to it–from multiple perspectives, from literature to letters from combatants. In a society that is increasingly using the metaphor of war, even against ideas, the book is an incredibly [...]

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Showdown in Germany

September 19, 2005

The most surprising development, at least in my opinion, is the overnight success of the new “Left Party” which has been described as “an alliance of ex-communists and former Social Democrats angered by [Schroeder]‘s efforts to trim the welfare state”.

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Not the Blame Game!

September 17, 2005

Having badly lost the first round of America’s favorite game show “The Blame Game,” the Bush Administration is busy getting to the work of rebuilding the Gulf Coast by seeking to blame environmentalists for the flooding of New Orleans.

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The Insufficient Record and Carroll College

September 17, 2005

The Insufficient Record is at it again, with a hard-hitting press release defending the decision by Carroll College to withdraw an invitation to a representative from Planned Parenthood to a discussion called “Science at the Edges of Humanity”. I would be amazed to learn that the ‘article’ didn’t begin as a press release issued by [...]

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Even more fun with Matt Drudge…

September 15, 2005

Okay, I don’t want to make a regular feature of this, but I was a little fired up clicking on Matt Drudge this evening. I am assuming you have seen the picture of Bush at the UN conference asking for a bathroom break. I don’t blame the man for that but it was amusing. Drudge, [...]

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