Monthly Archives: March 2007

Some Solid Advice

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Commies Are Everywhere

David Horowitz, a former Marxist turned neo-con political activist, has made a personal mission of revealing the “leftist” political leanings of college professors and their nefarious attempts to indoctrinate their students. I posted a link to this article, “The Two Universities of Texas,” that Mr. Horowitz had written for The Daily Texan. This is how […]

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Student Created Video

In my argument classes we’re currently using commercials, and the dubious practices they employ, as the impetus from which to write persuasive papers. At the beginning of the semester I placed each student into a group, and throughout the semester each group chooses a particular topic from the syllabus that interests them, and then they […]

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links for 2007-03-27

The Onion News Network It went live today. Huh. After watching a few videos, I’m not sure how this is satire. I mean, if the reports on here on only slightly less retarded than those on “real” news networks, where does the satire occur?

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Assignment

We’ll be discussing this article tonight. Study up.

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A Community Of Ones And Zeros

I’m an internet nerd. I’ll admit that straight off. I use GTalk for internet chatting. I’m active on all kinds of message boards. I play MMORGs. I have a Flickr account.I have a YouTube account. I have a Twitter account. I subscribe to RSS feeds. I use Gmail more than I use the telephone. All […]

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Case Of The Mondays

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links for 2007-03-22

SWORD NEWS Heh. Grievous bodily harm. Where was Things Not Working Properly Even After You’ve Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager”? Dammit, I know I’m not the only Pratchett fan here.

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Cable News: Grub Street For The 21st Century

Get ready for another “I hate the media” post. First, let’s start off by taking a little looky-loo at this video: Powerful stuff, huh? If you haven’t seen that before, then I’ll explain. That commercial aired in 1984, during the Superbowl, and it introduced the world to the brand new Macintosh computer. Yep, that was […]

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links for 2007-03-21

81-year old crashes bike into shoplifter That’s a good way to put the kibosh on the fleeing criminal. Now if we could get old people like that in the states. I’m tired of all the blue-hairs and their “But I’m so OLD!” shtick. If one other person got that Doug Stanhope reference, I’m amazed.

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