May 2010
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A little help?
I’m trying to improve my creative writing.  Before you hit “unfollow,” let me assure you that I have no intention of using this tumblog as a venue for my amateurish forays into writing.  I don’t plan on posting anything I’ve written.  This is just for my own gratification and growth. Anyway, turns out I suck at presenting specific, concrete images.  I’m not a...
May 1st
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Tonight was a good night.
Outdoor BBQ on a beautiful, clear, warm late spring night, with good friends and a few beers.  A good little buzz, a s’more, and commencement weekend w/family stretched out before me.  A complete undergraduate degree behind me with rare Pittsburgh stars overhead.  And, in my near future, an entire summer with my two fantastic roommates.  What a wonderful evening. 
May 1st
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ListenFavorite Song of the Week Friday: Graduation...
May 1st
April 2010
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“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can...”
–  Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009 (via stfuteabaggers) From the “Deep But Unfounded Thoughts” category. Hey, Michelle, how about we put you in a room with all carbon dioxide and test your theory? (via stfuconservatives) Of course, by your theory, water would also be harmful, since a person...
Apr 30th
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Congressman asks Selig to move game →
stfuconservatives: (from ESPN) Protests about Arizona’s recently passed immigration law continue as U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) said he will ask baseball commissioner Bud Selig to pull the 2011 All-Star Game from Phoenix. The World Boxing Council on Thursday said it will not schedule Mexican fighters in the state, and 40 immigration rights supporters protested outside Wrigley Field,...
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Bohemian Slapfight: I love how things are always... →
Yet we consistently see rational/hard science as the end all and be all of everything ever. I’m not being very eloquent this morning but you know what I’m saying? Like it’s being revealed over and over and over again how fallible ‘science’ is yet the western world is obsessed with it; no… This isn’t about the fallibility of science (although science does certainly make mistakes,...
Apr 29th
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What Up, Tumblr?
Apparently tumblr decided that I should unfollow my roommate.  No idea how this happened. Problem solved, though.  If you aren’t following circlegame, you probably should be.
Apr 29th
“I feel like Ive been living in a consistent state of suspension. Like I’m just...”
– My Interrupted Fairy Tale (via quotewhore)
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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The LDN, blad.
halvgal: Visit it. Love it. Followed.
Apr 28th
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“If the right-wing educational reforms now being championed by the Obama...”
– Henry Giroux  . :: azspot:robot-heart-politics:chaichangechaos:darkmovesoflove :: . (via resmc) Sometimes when I think about the 30+ years ahead of me as a public educator I feel very overwhelmed.
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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“It was a no brainer. I love it here. I enjoy my teammates. I enjoy the area. I...”
– justin verlander in hour detroit, on choosing to continue his career with the tigers. (via electricollection) (via youmovetoofast) Love this man.
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Listenblackrebelmc: constellations: Janis Joplin -...
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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I hate being poor.
If Pitt does not approve my petition for in-state tuition, then I will be paying $11,000 just for my summer classes this year. Fuck.
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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“And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every...”
–  Barack Obama (via agirlcalledchris:robot-heart-politics:chos: abcsoupdot:selchieproductions) - Hell yeah Barack Obama (via constantflux) (via artislovely) (via heyitsmallory) Amen, Mr. President. (via littlebluebeetle) (via thedisgruntledgradstudent) “Folks haven’t been reading their...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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ListenFavorite Song of the Week Friday: Sigur Ros:...
Apr 23rd
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TIME TRAVELER: Why the eagles weren't involved in... →
jodema: iamlittlei: fuckyeahlordoftherings: There would be certain logistical problems in bringing the Eagles into play. At the very least, they’d have to be contacted somehow, which would involve a dangerous journey of its own. What’s more, it’s doubtful that even a great Eagle could make the entire flight from Rivendell to Mordor… Plot hole closed.  Excellent work. I don’t buy it....
Apr 23rd
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TIME TRAVELER: Why the eagles weren't involved in... →
fuckyeahlordoftherings: There would be certain logistical problems in bringing the Eagles into play. At the very least, they’d have to be contacted somehow, which would involve a dangerous journey of its own. What’s more, it’s doubtful that even a great Eagle could make the entire flight from Rivendell to Mordor… Plot hole closed.  Excellent work.
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Anatomical Sexism
Here’s a gem from my physiology textbook: “The female external genitalia are known collectively as either the vulva or the pudendum [vulva, womb; pudere, to be ashamed].”
Apr 23rd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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I do not understand how I have legitimately been working on this—my very last undergraduate literature paper—literally all day, and yet have only managed a net gain of like 3 pages.  WTF? This is like the cursed paper from hell.  It simply will not ever get longer.  Eliot’s ghost is laughing somewhere.
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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“Wake now, my conscience, with justice thy guide Stand with all people whose...”
– from “Wake Now, My Senses,” one of my favorite UU hymns
Apr 19th
Edit: To clarify on my previous post on academic elitism: saying that I have always been “a bit of an academic elitist” is, as circlegame pointed out, a huge understatement.  I have always been hugely academically elitist. But—I will allow myself a bit of defense—in all of my work teaching teenagers and talking about education and science with teenagers, I have never...
Apr 18th
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I've Always Been a Bit of an Academic Elitist
In fact in high school I was quite the snob when it came to academia, and have been more or less elitist about academic achievement and ability throughout college. Now though, having spent several semesters teaching and tutoring at various levels in a few different subjects, a semester in an education class, and with a student teaching placement on the (very near) horizon, I’m completely...
Apr 18th
HuffPo screws up evolution again « Why Evolution... →
In the last couple of weeks I’ve come across a lot of complete crap on HuffPo, and every time I tell myself I’m going to stop reading it. Well, this time I mean it.  HuffPo—you’re off my Google Reader.
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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ListenSpoon—The Way We Get By Just getting by...
Apr 16th
Online Writing Tutoring
is weird and disorienting.
Apr 16th
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For my British Followers:
What did you think of the PM debate?  I didn’t realize the UK had never done televised debates before.  In the last US election I was mostly frustrated by the debates because I felt like the candidates largely gave substance-less answers and delivered hollow rhetoric mostly unrelated to the questions asked.  Expected and understandable, of course, but annoying.  So, I’m just curious:...
Apr 16th
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“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly...”
– T. S. Eliot (in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets”; he speaks here specifically of John Donne) . :: colinbrineman:notational :: . (via resmc) I’m over Eliot, but the man still knows his poetry.
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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