“English Professor Suddenly Realizes Students Will Believe Literally Anything She Says”
“English Professor Suddenly Realizes Students Will Believe Literally Anything She Says”
from the Onion
“English Professor Suddenly Realizes Students Will Believe Literally Anything She Says”
“English Professor Suddenly Realizes Students Will Believe Literally Anything She Says”
from the Onion
Author and complete nerd John Green has some pretty sweet quotes. So I found some “posterizations” of a few of them, then made a couple of my own. And I just might put some up in my classroom. I’ve also included a few others for your enjoyment.
And we’ll never be bourgeois
(bourgeois)
We don’t own no Capital
Owning property and controlling the means of production in a loop of privatized investment and
……………..unevenly distributed accumulation just ain’t for us
We crave a rise of the proletariat
Let me be your comrade
(Comrade)
You can call me Trotsky
And we’ll labor, labor, labor, labor
Let us share commodity.
“Benedict Cumberbatch sounds like a jaguar purring into a cello.” –anonymous
Smaug. Smaug. Smaug.
That’s what we’ve been anticipating. In short, he desolated. And so did Peter Jackson. In a few ways. Not all of them good.
I hate the title of my post. I think we’ve outworn all references to Hamlet’s speech. But I couldn’t come up with any better.
We sometimes run into what seems like a hard decision: I have a gift someone gave me. Should I re-gift it? Or is that tacky? Lazy? Untactful? Unappreciative? Selfish? Stingy? Inconsiderate?
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My boy in his crib
Little creature not stirring
Merry Christmas to him
And to us a good ni—
I spring to his room
to see what is the matter.
Yes, another person has put something on the internet about the Duck Dynasty/A&E feud.
In short, I believe there is shame on both sides.
On the one hand, even atheist lesbian activist Camelli Paglia would agree that A&E’s decision to ban Phil Robertson was both hypocritical and fascist:

“I think that this intolerance by gay activists toward the full spectrum of human beliefs is a sign of immaturity, juvenility. This is not the mark of a true intellectual life. This is why there is no cultural life now in the U.S. Why nothing is of interest coming from the major media in terms of cultural criticism. Why the graduates of the Ivy League with their A, A, A+ grades are complete cultural illiterates, etc. is because they are not being educated in any way to give respect to opposing viewpoints. There is a dialogue going on human civilization, for heaven sakes. It’s not just this monologue coming from fanatics who have displaced the religious beliefs of their parents into a political movement. And that is what happened to feminism, and that is what happened to gay activism, a fanaticism.”
In other words, a lot of gay rights activists can’t stand to hear their opponents talk, and would rather shut down the conversation, betraying the roots of their own politico-social movements. Continue reading
ESV Bible Translators Debate the word “slave”
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Nelson Mandela passed away on December 5 of this year. It was around this time of year a year ago that I read a biography of his, Tree Shaker, by Bill Keller. I read this book in order to create a sample assessment for students.
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As this Huffington Post article details, this video was created to draw attention to the non-profit organization DDB NY’s goal of bringing clean drinking water to countries in need.
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