Archive for February, 2009
On Sesame Street
Saturday, February 28th, 2009In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman cites Sesame Street as a main reason young people do not enjoy reading, AND why teachers are judged on their classroom performance as much as–if not more than–their Sesame Street does not encourage kids to love school or anything about school,” Postman says. “It encourages them to love [...]
On Procrastination
Monday, February 9th, 2009Really too much to do to write today–I’ve logged a pretty extensive list of must-dos. A stack of writing projects to my right whispers …”We’ll still be here tomorrow…don’t worry about us…get outta that seat… the dishes are calling for you…and so are your kids…at least one of them…you probably shouldn’t let the other one [...]
Republic? Democracy? Aristocracy!
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Some people label the United States of America a Democracy. Some–including I–find it necessary to correct this, countering that founding fathers formed the USA as a Republic, which is for lack of a better term, “representative democracy.” What I’ve been hearing about many holding public, elected office demonstrates that the Republic has given way to [...]
Where’s The Beef? We’re Sick of Pork!
Monday, February 2nd, 2009I’m taking flak for my criticism of the contents of the House’s stimulus package, fielding comments like: “Which party inhereted a budget surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in US history? How soon we forget. ” — Let me get this straight….Republicans are responsible for a deficit when a bipartisan Congress voted for [...]