A Defense of Rhetoric – Michael Gerson – The Washington Post. In today’s Washington Post, Michael Gerson—a speechwriter for BushII—called a recent Santorum speech, “a 20-minute ramble of lame jokes, patriotic platitudes and half-developed campaign themes.” Gerson goes on to say that, on the evidence of these remarks, Santorum’s guiding philosophy is “free enterprise” and…
Category: Stuff and Nonsense
Sliced Bread=a run for its money
The AirPrint Activator v2.0 from Netputing just rocked my world. I changed my mind on a printer last year while at the store. I knew some of the models were AirPrint models and foolishly thought that meant ALL of them were. Mine wasn’t. Guess we know why it was on sale. I’ve been frustrated for…
Huck Still in Danger—Run, Huck! Run!
NB: I write this post using language that I never actually say and never actually said in a classroom. I taught Huck for years, but only in NYC, and only to classes that were predominantly filled with African American and Hispanic students (Dominican and Puerto Rican) and eventually some Asian (largely Chinese) students as well….
Madame Merch and Great Video
Last week, to celebrate the upcoming release of What Would Madame Defarge Knit? our artiste extraordinairé created free, downloadable holiday cards for you and yours to use this holiday season. You can view and download the goodies over at the Madame Defarge site. More goodies will be a-comin’ so keep checking back.
Writing Wednesday 27 Oct 2010
Want to write but stuck for ideas? Use Twitter. Seriously. If you use a program like TweetDeck (nayy) you can easily track trends like #writingprompts or #writingtips or #amwriting. Inkygirl calls them “slow chats” which is a nice term as, if you have TweetDeck (or TweetGrid or TweetChat or HootSuite) compiling all of these hashtagged tweets,…