Monthly Archives: May 2007
I Don’t Care If It’s True. It Hurts My Feelings, So Shut Up.
One of the writing prompts I assigned to my argumentative writing class directed the students to write about what they thought the role of science should be in our lives. As source documents I had them read this article by Michael Crichton and this article by Stephen Jay Gould. While I have my own views […]
Still Grading……
I’m still busy grading and I will probably be so for the next couple of days. I’ll post everyday, but don’t expect much out of me. Until things return to normal, here’s a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
Grading, Grading, Grading………
I’m furiously grading papers in an attempt to get all my grades in on time. Thankfully, I found a wonderful tutorial by Daniel J. Solove, an Associate Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, detailing how to speed up grading time. I’m following it to the letter, and man, I’m really cranking […]
Yippie Ki Yay, Motherfunker!
Rumors are a swirlin’ all over the internet that the upcoming Die Hard sequel “Live Free or Die Hard” will be toned down to receive a PG-13 rating. That means that all the violence has to be blood-free, and John will only be able to utter the f-word a single time in the whole movie, […]
Selling Is Legal…
I had planned on writing a post about Deborah Jean Palfrey, the notorious, and slightly unfortunate-looking, “DC Madam.” For thirteen years Palfrey has ran a ‘ho delivery service an escort service that specialized in 275 dollar-an-hour massages. Palfrey claims she had somewhere near 10,000 to 15,000 customers in Washington D.C. from 2002 to 2006, and […]