AT&T; is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship (AP via Yahoo! News) As hard as I’ve tried to avoid the whole Tiger Woods thing these past few weeks, it’s kind of hard to do that, especially when seemingly everyone, everywhere, is talking about it. After all, it’s a perfect distraction from all that health care stuff, and who really cares if people go bankrupt or die because of our health care system if we can spend all our time talking about the umpteenth alleged Tiger…
In retrospect, we should have expected that Democrats would wait until this time of year to buckle and cave in on public health care. They were probably figuring that once the Massachusetts ground had frozen up, no one could hear Ted Kennedy turning in his grave as the party that purported to lionize him and his family, once again, turned their backs on the social reforms that defined the Democratic party in the middle of the 20th century. Were I in a more humourous mood,…
I suppose I should count my blessings that my long vacation from teaching coincides with the congressional recesses, as it means that I can give myself a bit of a break from politics at the same time as I take a break from my primary employment. However, as has been made clear from today’s developments at town hall meetings across the nation, politics isn’t exactly taking a total holiday this month. (After all, August is the month without any holidays, at least by most Americans’…
Coming from the early days of the Internet Age, I’m used to basing my e-mail addresses and other contact information off of my real name (sean@…, sshannon@…, seanshannon@… and so on). Back when I first went to Antioch, my e-mail address, as was all students’ there, was based off of my real name, and I couldn’t request it be changed to firedancingspirit@… or something like that. When Dad was first able to access the Internet through his old CompuServe account, his address was based off…
Although I don’t live in Monroe County, I make an effort to stay up-to-date on news from the area since I work there, and I try to integrate my students’ immediate environment and news into my classroom teachings as best I can. Most of them hate writing — and after hearing about their high school experiences, I can hardly blame them — so if they have to write, I try to at least steer them towards topics that they care about, to help them with…