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Posted on December 03, 2008
The Little Rock School District is looking at a ten million dollar budget shortfall, and that’s bad bad bad. How are wealthier districts making ends meet? Here’s one way: “Tough times call for tough actions,” he says. So he started selling ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 [...

Should I quit writing? Should I be good?

Posted on December 01, 2008
Much praise to those who spot the poem whose first line I shamelessly distorted into this title line. I’ve had the worst time trying to blog lately. Anyone with an encouraging word might chime in right about now. Discouraging words would be acceptable, too, as a reality check.

“The Ritual Self: Reaching for the Sacred with No Help from God “

Posted on November 14, 2008
Kind of wonderful: In light of all this supposed heterogeneity of meaning and intention, you now realize that ?God? is just a poetic word, with powerful historic reverberations and resonances, and that people use it as a lowest-common-denominator, generic, term to help coordinate something else that they are doing together, namely creating a psychological environment in [...

Barack Obama Wins. Thank you, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Posted on November 04, 2008
I’m pretty stoked right now. It’s going to be a great eight years.

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The Great Debate

Posted on October 05, 2008
It’s a little late in being posted, but I think you deserve to hear about the Biden-Palin debate: GWEN IFILL: (suddenly turning to camera) Oh hi! Didn’t see you come in! I’m Gwen Ifill, and welcome to “A Heartbeat Away,” better known as “What Will Stupid Sarah Say?” Originally, I was to moderate the first presidential [...

“There?s a subtle difference between insane and impossible.”

Posted on September 14, 2008
On the care and feeding of CEOs: You should respect your gut when that internal ?he?s insane? flag starts waving, but that doesn?t mean you should stop listening. There?s more data to gather and there are times where an insane approach might be the right thing...

League of Women Voters forum on public school funding

Posted on September 08, 2008
I’m going to try to liveblog this, but my connection is intermittent at best. {Arkansawyer: I’m now going through and fixing typos.} From left to right, Will Bond, State Representative, District 44; Sam Ledbetter, State Board member and former representative, District 37; Baker Kurrus, LR School Board member...

Forum on local public schools this Monday at 5:30

Posted on September 06, 2008
It’s at my church and is sponsored by the League of Women Voters. I plan to attend and, if possible, live blog the event. Speaking will be: Little Rock lawyer and state Board of Education member Sam Ledbetter; state Rep. Will Bond of Jacksonville, who’s been leadiing the charge to end the Pulaski desegregation case and [...

Open Minds K-12 conference sessions posted

Posted on September 02, 2008
Right here–schedule coming soon.

Howard Wolfson’s gracious endorsement of Obama (and, in passing, an explanation of how Hillary lost)

Posted on September 01, 2008
Anyone who can read this op-ed by Howard Wolfson and not believe all but an insignificant minority of Clintonites are not getting on the Obama bus (and not shuffling to the back, either) is either deluded or a desperate Republican partisan. (For the moment, let’s overlook the large overlap between those two sad groups of [...

Animator vs. Animation

Posted on August 31, 2008
Just what it says. Sit back and enjoy. via David Weinberger

People we meet at church, part one

Posted on August 31, 2008
This morning’s early service at church was titled Music and Religion, Part II (I missed Part I, darn it), and among the folks who were there were a visiting couple. Someone suggested that I’d enjoy talking with them, and that turned out to be true...

“Ham Sandwich McCain’s Actual Choice for Veep”

Posted on August 30, 2008
“Sandwiches are as American as apple pie,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, “and it’s just like the Democrats to attack them, and, by implication, our entire American way of life, and, by further extension, the very human act of eating, and, by even further extension, life itself, and, by extensive extension, the very concept of [...

“O, Bomb It On The Mountain”

Posted on August 29, 2008
Of course, Dennis Perrin is probably right: “We’re a better country than this,” Obama assures us. Really? What movie has he been watching? All I saw last night was collective mania and delusion. The fact that a black man may lead the next phase of empire is genius, a beautiful cover...

Mr. November

Posted on August 29, 2008
Here’s a promise I’d give anything to hear a politician make in exactly these words: via Andy on the Road

No Comment Necessary

Posted on May 30, 2008
I Hardly Know Me Anymore The Scott McClellan story, as told to Michael Kinsley: It’s sad. It’s just sad. In all my years of public service, I am one of the finest people I have ever had the privilege to know and work with. I cannot imagine why I have chosen this moment to turn against everything [...

Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Looks Down Tonight From Desolation Row

Posted on May 30, 2008
There’s a very good blog entry from University Diaries at Inside Higher Ed: The problem with deciding that such people ? people who?ve read very few books, who can?t write a basic essay, who are probably functionally illiterate ? shouldn?t waste their time, money, and dignity at a university, is that a college degree makes an [...

Geeks Gone Wild!

Posted on May 18, 2008
A brief excerpt from a Relationship Therapy session: Therapist: SP, is the issue that you don’t know anything about these IDPs? SP: Definitely. User will have a few beers after work and then just show up with some IDP and, with only a very brief introduction, expect me to ‘party’, as he puts it...

“Not cyborgs. Robots.”

Posted on May 18, 2008
Well, then, that makes all the difference. (via Jeff Bohren)

Why it’s worth spending a few dollars more to send people places (Part I)

Posted on May 17, 2008
I?ve had some of the most interesting, stimulating, and just plain fun conversations. All of which occurred off-site, while hanging out in neighbouring pubs, coffee shops, or just walking. I?m not going to list names because that makes it sound like some stupid elitist club, and what was so great about these conversations is that [...

A Beginner’s Guide To Social Networking

Posted on May 17, 2008
I left a couple of words out of the title. (Found via The Growing Life.)

Weblog Addition: The Growing Life, by a Collins I don’t think I’m related to

Posted on May 17, 2008
This post had the quote that spurred me to add The Growing Life: Everyone has something lying dormant within them that stands to come alive and wreak havoc upon the world in beautiful ways. Those are words to conjure with. Check Clay Collins out. Here’s another one, this time for Orlis (who I know perfectly well will not [...

Lifecycle Management

Posted on May 17, 2008
8. Idiotic (possibly apocryphal) abuse case gets high public profile. 10. New rules ? means testing, reporting requirements, eligibility tightened. 14. Participation drops. Costs remain high, due to overhead for stricter reporting requirements. Yes, I was tempted to call it “Lifecycle (mis)Management”, but given the political climate (which the next election will help but not cure–there’s lots of [...

The Periodic Table of Governmental Interference in the Sciences

Posted on May 17, 2008
Let’s hope that by 2009 we won’t need a Mendelev to fill in the gaps. via Joho the Blog

“algebra is a civil right”

Posted on May 15, 2008
There’s much food for thought in this: As a left-leaning sort, I like the idea that a kid without the money to ‘go away’ to college has access to the same academic rigor as the kid with rich parents. A former colleague of mine used to say that algebra is a civil right, and I agreed [...

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