RT @mashable: The "What People Think I Do/What I Really Do" meme has overtaken the "Sh*t People Say" meme. Here are the best - http://mashable.com/2012...
thenewrepublic: Is the backlash against Obama’s birth-control policy overblown? “The Republicans seem to be on the wrong side of the issue politically: Even last week, before Obama tweaked the policy, polls showed that Americans overall suppoted the contraception requirement. The latest CBS/New York Times poll shows the same thing—and,... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
Things That Make Me Stabbity: Hearing an elementary school teacher talk about how frustrated she is that she can't find the book her resource book suggests for teaching "themes" to a class - not because she has a particular love for that book, but because she can't think of any other books she might use to teach what a "theme" is.
If you teach English to elementary school kids, how the hell do you not know children's lit well enough to be able to find a book to teach the concept of "theme"?
- Katy S
And the "but that's what the resource book said to use" line - I'm soooooo not impressed. Learn to be an independent thinker and learner.
- Katy S
Fwiw, this was not a young teacher - the woman had to be well over 40. I wouldn't have excused it in a young teacher either, though.
- Katy S
I had an encounter with a colleague today that wasn't dissimilar. I looked at her syllabus, and it's obvious that she took the "pick a textbook and teach from it" route without really understanding the subject, its significance, or its applications. All I can do is be glad that I don't teach that way.
- RepoRat
Oh, this got better. I suggested a few easy to find books. She asked if they had a theme. Then, when I mentioned that one had multiple themes, it seemed to confuse her. I fear for her students.
- Katy S
"First off—and this should go without saying—you need a gun. Preferably a shotgun. If you can’t hit the head (though you should always aim for the head), chances are the shot will still do some damage to one—or several—of your brainless assailants. After that? Outfit yourself with these must-have items."
- Kelli H.
from Bookmarklet
Yes, thanks, Shawn. Pull quote: "Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Micah
My mind is blown that they had the gall to put together a panel like this, ALL FREAKING MALE, to discuss something that affects WOMEN'S health. They had to have tremendous balls (many, many pairs of them) to come up with something like this and then televise it. And then they whine about being persecuted. What universe are they living in???
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Hillarious! Have anybody read "Sexing the body" (http://www.amazon.com/Sexing-...) ? It's about gender politics but based mostly on intersex people problem in USA right now. Many damage done, by the law and common place in our gender culture (supported by all the wrong "science" conclusions) that you have to be either male or female. I wonder what would these guys do when the intersexed come to get their rights? :D
- Cyber Wanderlust
Wow Micah Nitetzsche not easy to "get", you even "get" ressentiment And war rolls on...should I bump my Casus belli? I think that's in order http://ff.im/OPhRj which begs the question how many religions can i blaspheme? A: ____ ____ ___.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Happy current and post Valentine's day, FF. I was in too much of a funk yesterday to say much. Hubs rescued me with a night at a pub near the Hauptbahnhof and assistance with the chores when we got home. Hence, the smile on my face, this morning. Oh, and did I tell you I love you all! :D
You know, the nights that I might get upset that I have no one to snuggle with, Otto snugs up against my back or behind my knees and keeps me warm. When I need a hug, he steps all over me and gives me smooches. And when I'm sick, he sits at my feet or beside me quietly. There's lots of love in this little apartment. :)
annaharo:
Personally, I don’t believe in ‘Hallmark Holidays’ but I do believe in love and celebrating it every day of the year. I also have a strong belief in half priced heart-shaped candy on February 15. ;)
HEY LOOK, IT’S HARO! - http://flummery.tumblr.com/post...
PUBLISHERS. PUBLISHERS PUT THE LINE IN ONLINE. PLEASE LET'S GET THIS STORY STRAIGHT. PUBLISHERS DON'T LIKE READERS, ONLY CUSTOMERS.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Sorry, Andrew, not yelling at you, but this seems like a crisis that libraries shouldn't waste. We can't apologize for publishers, we must lay the blame at their feet. Publishers only like readers who pay full freight. That's the message.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Aside from the yelling, am I off-base on this? I'm likely to write a "death to the publishers" rant soon, so if there's much room for discussion on this particular reason that the commercial publishers are pond scum, I'd like to know now.
- Your Neighbor Steve
I didn't think ya were yelling at me :) and I think you're right about putting it on the publishers. Some of them are still operating under 19th century business practices in my opinion
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I was thinking about this comic more now that Steve posted his rant, and I realize it made me grind my teeth for a slightly different reason: I'd actually PREFER it if librarians *were* the ones putting the line in online. Or whatever other painful/questionable decisions needed to be made. Because as fucked up as that might be, in the larger scheme of things, in the short-term it would...
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- Marianne
Marianne's mini-rant is pretty much the same perspective that Iris and I were working from when we wrote about how we thought ebooks should be sold, and it seems like the same perspective that Jamie LaRue and the Douglas County Public Library are working from as they actually try and negotiate this with publishers/vendors.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Yes, like with your rant, I was also thinking of those hopeful things, but did not want to detract from my bile ;).
- Marianne
I've experienced the moment in the comic and it is a teachable moment. "This is how publishers feel about eBooks. This is why they feel that way."
- Andy
I lived in Madison, WI when this all hit the news - I remember wondering if it was blown out of proportion. Then I went in to eat at a Denny's one night with my friend Sylett, who is black, and they ignored our table. It must have been 94 or 95. When we tried to catch the waitress's eye, and then started to get vocal, she just pointedly ignored us. We finally left and filed a complaint the next day, but nothing came of it.
- Que Sarah Sarah