I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Proficient I Am in Microsoft Word

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Is this satire? It doesn't matter. It gave me feels. For me, though, it was Word Perfect and Broderbund Print…

Frame of Mind (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 21) Riker is an asylum inmate who hallucinates he’s a Starfleet officer rehearsing a play about an asylum inmate

3 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG Riker overprepares for a role in "Beverly's play," which distracts him during his briefing for an undercover mission,…

Dr. Bobby Teaches Ferris Bueller as Rhetor

3 years ago

My former student, Bobby Kuechenmeister, uses Ferris Bueller's lesson on faking out his parents as an example to teach ethos,…

He dedicated years of his life to QAnon. One day made him question it all.

3 years ago

Thoughtful analysis structured around one man's personal journey away from QAnon. No single online platform is responsible for QAnon’s rapid…

Lessons (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 19) Picard and a new officer bond over their shared interest in music

3 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG When Picard is up in the middle of the night amusing himself with his archaeology hobby, he's annoyed…

Media Bias Chart (Ad Fontes, v. 9)

3 years ago

Objective news reporting is an ideal. Wherever humans are involved, there will be bias. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with journalism…

Smalltalk through masks is hard; I really was glad to see so many familiar upper halves of faces at last night’s six-theatre Sondheim tribute

3 years ago

If you said hello to me recently and I didn't seem interested in smalltalk, but just raised my eyebrows, made…

Perspective | How NPR’s Steve Inskeep cracked the code for interviewing Trump

3 years ago

The role of mainstream journalists is significant, and, overall, their record has been far less than stellar. Too many, whether…

Birthright, Part 1 (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 16) Worf learns his father may still be alive; Data dreams

3 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise-D visits Deep Space Nine, so that the producers can take advantage of the beautiful promenade set…