Posted in Christian Right, Culture, Darwin, beliefs, education, evolution, extremists, inteligent design, pop culture, religion, religious right, theocracy on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Another example of misusing data to fit a theist view of the world. By rejecting scientific evidence and more, Michael Behe is able to convince only the uninitiated, the believer. He is not able to make inroads on well trained biologists or other scientists. The lesson is, it seems to me, [...]
Posted in Culture, Iraq, War, military, torture on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Watch this one and wonder if the ethics of our soldiers match the ethics of the administration that sent them into battle?This MSNBC report is extremely disturbing.
clipped from www.youtube.com
Posted in Culture, Politics, Research, crime, education, gun control, guns, pop culture on April 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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The most recent Gallup Poll (done before VT) indicates that the majority of Americans favor a combination of new legislation and stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws. The poll also indicates that only a minority of American homes (43%) indicate gun ownership, the majority of those households are in the South or [...]
Posted in Bush, Conservatives, Constitution, Culture, Politics, White House, gun control, guns, presidency, shooting on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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clipped from harpers.org
The leading newspaper in the Spanish-speaking world, Madrid’s El Pa’s, puts the blame squarely on the National Rifle Association and reproduces a photograph of Charlton Heston brandishing a rifle. “[C]ontrol measures,“ writes that paper, ”are systematically challenged by an abusive interpretation of the Second Amendment—which was written before there was a National [...]
Posted in Conservatives, Culture, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, prayer, religion, theism on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is an annotation of Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen? – News Bloggers
Dinesh D’Souza exposes his bigotry and, frankly, his stupidity as he slams atheists in this posting. In part he states: “Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there [...]
Posted in Bush, Culture, NRA, Politics, White House, gun control, guns, pop culture, presidency on April 18, 2007 | 7 Comments »
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Writing for the Associated Press (as reported by Yahoo News), Calvin Woodward reports:
Gun control has been treated with a mix of silence and discomfort in the presidential campaign, a stance that may become insupportable once the nation finds its voice in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech mass murder…
Enter the massacre at Blacksburg, Va., [...]
Posted in Christianity, Constitution, Culture, Politics, gun control, guns, religion, shooting on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre have continued ever since.
“God cares about Virginia Tech,” said Megan Martin, 24, joining about a dozen fellow students in a traveling prayer vigil [...]
Posted in Christianity, Cultural Studies, Culture, Islam, Judaism, Lenin, Marx, Muslim, beliefs, pop culture, religion on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Harold Bloom’s Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. I had a hard time putting this extraordinary work of non-fiction down. Bloom’s scholarship is as solid as his writing style. For anyone wanting to think seriously about the origins of religious belief, about the monotheisms that pervade western thought, for those, like [...]
Posted in Christianity, Conservatives, Culture, Darwin, Ontology, education, evolution, inteligent design, religion, science on April 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy. They lobby for creationist ideas such as “intelligent design” to be taught as alternatives to evolution in science classrooms. As this [...]
Posted in Bush, Culture, Fascism, Iran, Iraq, Military Spending, War, military, mujahedeen on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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They’re Terrorists, but They’re Our Terrorists…
Based on a story by Michael Ware at CNN.com U.S. Protects Iranian Opposition Group in Iraq
I really want to scream. Not only is this a bungled war (actually the war effort was a great success–it is the peace that is being bungled) but the hypocrisy [...]
Posted in Bush, Constitution, Culture, Fascism, History, Iraq, Politics, War, military on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Baghdad, official control over the news is getting tighter. Journalists used to walk freely into the city’s hospitals and the morgue to keep count of the day’s dead and wounded. Now the hospitals have been declared off-limits and morgue officials turn away reporters who aren’t accompanied by a Coalition escort. Iraqi police refer reporters’ [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Culture, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Fascism, NCLB, Politics, education, pop culture, school reform, teaching on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Tests ’stopping children playing’
Five-year-olds are being prevented from engaging in traditional play as they are under too much pressure from the national tests, teachers have warned.
With lessons geared towards assessment, children are bored from the moment they begin formal schooling, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers warned.
What is [...]
Posted in Bush, Culture, History, Israel, Pelosi, Politics, Syria on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pelosi Brings Peace Message to Assad
The Chicago Tribune reports:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syria’s leader Wednesday despite White House objections, saying she pressed President Bashar Assad over his country’s support for militant groups and passed him a peace message from Israel.
Place this along side the Bush remarks that insisted that sending delegations [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics, beliefs, cultural literacy, education, learning, pop culture, teaching on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I recently found the site Advocates for Self-Government where I took the “World’s Smallest Political Quiz.” It is worth the two to three minutes to take this quiz and really see where you stand as a thinking citizen. I found the whole thing eye-opening. Perhaps you will too.
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Posted in AI, Cultural Studies, Culture, NCLB, Technology, artificial intelligence, cognition, cultural literacy, pop culture on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The link leads you to a post by Treavor on his blog that is absolutely worth the look. The video clip from YouTube poses some interesting and disturbing questions that need to be addressed in the United States but, because of the hegemonic views of the current administration, the diffidence paid to global capitalism, and [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Culture, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, NCLB, education, learning, school reform on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you have questions about high-stakes testing mandated by No Child Left Behind then this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer may just help you think about the NCLB mandates in a different way. While it represents anecdotal evidence from one teacher, that evidence is mounting and cannot be overlooked in the overall discussion of [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Culture, Educational Policy, Literacy, NCLB, education, teaching on March 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have often argued that engaged teaching and learning must be so much fun that children do not know what they are doing is good for them. This idea turns on the notion that teaching and learning must be ENGAGED. To be engaged teaching and learning must be rigorous, must be of value to students, [...]
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