January 2009
15 posts
Robert Frank's "The Americans" →
It’s at the National Gallery. My new favorite photographer. (Not that I had an old favorite photographer, but whatever). Maybe I just like him because I love America.
Goodbye Post-It Wall? →
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Varied Assessment
During finals, I was thinking a lot about assessment, and I think its worth discussing if our current assessment tradition is the best one.
Currently, timed essays have close to a monopoly on final assessments in the liberal arts. Why not have the option of showing your knowledge through a timed discussion with the assessor?
Benefits of allowing an assessed discussion:
-It provides fairness to...
Idea to combat nocturnal suburban boredom and...
Okay, so this idea’s been lingering in my head.
Problem A: Suburban kids tend to be bored at night. [Sorry, I hate generalizations, too, but just run with me]. Though we were relatively good at being active in the day, my friends and I spent most of our late high school nights driving around and finding parks, parking lots, and 24-hour restaurants. We would have loved to just have...
Chomsky on Concision
I was watching Manufacturing Consent and, in it, Chomsky says that our television culture of concision is biased towards the status quo. It makes a lot of sense to me. If someone has only one minute to explain their thoughts on television, they have to use a certain set of publically-agreed-upon points to make their argument. However, if you are proposing something that requires a longer...
Mister Rogers Essay →
Looking at Mister Rogers through the lens of protest..
YouTube videos mentioned in the essay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3-nl8lHx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFNLjWCgPMQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjD3LtozAQk
Pete Davis & the Holy Smokes on iTunes
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“I like to say I’m more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn...”
– Pete Seeger
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“The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross...”
– President Barack Obama
Last Year's Washingtonian's Best and Worst of... →
Great categories. Gives great insight into the personalities of our Congressmen.
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Thomas Frank against Centrism →
I couldn’t agree more.
