Similar:Jesus Christ SuperstarI have a daughter who does things. Her n…CultureClues (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Four, Episode 14) Data's faslehoods nonpluss and Pic…Rewatching ST:TNG After the crew blac…EmpathyFacebook, Now You Remind Me of a Half-Drunk Cocktail Party SchmoozerLast week, Facebook asked me what sports…Business"Jewish priests do this. It's where Leonard Nimoy got the Vulcan sign,"…
Similar:More Evidence that Choosing a Typeface Is ImportantAestheticsYeah natural born creative genius is a cool myth, but have you tried grinding through hour…PersonalDaughter doing a thing. Interviewing the Pittsburgh Dance Council’s Randall Miller for Bur… AcademiaI'm not showing you my email inbox, or my laundry pile, or the state of my soul. Just…PersonalAPNews.com Photo Still…
Phllip Lopate writes a good essay on the challenges of writing a celebrity profile. My take: Just as Plato argued that ideal leaders would be so well-balanced that they would not desire to lead (and thus would not have the power-lust that would enable them to rise above their competitors), it follows that ideal celebrity profile writers would be…
“Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself – and he needed anger management, was ‘not forthright’ and had control issues, psychiatrist found,” wrote The Daily Mail this week of Dr David Dao, in probably the longest headline ever…
The language in the official United response to the “re-accommodation” incident deserves some analysis . Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation. If you “refuse…
Slate has a good article about William “Captain Kirk” Shatner’s involvement with a Twitter incident that involved Autism Speaks, the alleged connection between vaccines and autism, and the ready availability of easily Googled but unreliable “information.” Shatner is a celebrity, which means that he has outsized influence. That he would use his platform to lend…
Similar:What, exactly, am I looking at here? I’m so confused.What, exactly, am I looking at here? I’m…PersonalWhere No One Has Gone Before (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 5) Wes's warp-drive guru help…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….CultureI just thought of a time before you were born when I should have been kind, but I can't…
Similar:Carolyn's Theater Bio for Prime Stage's The Outsiders (Mar 6-15) Actor biography sample Program bi…BooksThere was a hand, too. Did you bring the hand?AmusingThe third Google hit for " #steampunk control panel" is a #blender3d image I cre…PersonalOnce on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune…
Peter was the lowest-ranked player to enter the tournament, but ended up tied for second place. Similar:Top deck of a #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser needs an airlock at the top of the spiral s… AestheticsThough I have marking and prep and committee work and paperwork to do, I took an hour befo…PersonalIn July, 2002, I…
Similar:How Fake News Happens: It's simple! A governor tweets a Fox News graphic from a story that…How dare President Biden be invoked by a…CultureAssassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaOn 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinan…CultureEats, Shoots & LeavesWhat’s your comma IQ? Mine just so happe…AmusingOpt Out of Pre-approved Credit Mailings Requires SSN and DoB? Not…
This short film reminds us why art matters. Spend 8 minutes watching it. Two heart-wrenching twists, at 5:26 and 5;48 (and the story continues during the closing credits). Similar:Carolyn as Hodel and Peter as Lazar in the Stage Right homeschool Fiddler on the Roof.PersonalLook what I found on my shelf in a closet. #history #archaeology…
A letter, published a few weeks ago, in which the inventor of the World Wide Web discusses personal security, fake news, and political transparency. Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the world wide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information,…
Similar:Attending Religious Perspectives on the War in Gaza. Attending Religious Perspectives on the…PersonalIt's Friday night in July, and I'm jamming with my fall course preps.The dean sends me an email at 9:07pm. In…AcademiaThe girl will be Mrs Lovett in Stage Right's Sweeney Todd at the end of July. #3week #musi…DramaThe Storyteller (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season…
Facebook wants you to spend more time on Facebook, so why should they promote links pointing to content that exists outside of Facebook? Facebook’s approach to content control means that communities that use Facebook have to play by Facebook’s rules. Users have limited ability to communicate with Facebook’s administrators when there’s a problem, as we’ve seen…
I am definitely on team revise-to-avoid-using-“they”-as-a-singular-pronoun, but the 2017 edition of the AP Stylebook (the industry standard writing guide for journalists) acknowledges the limited use of “they” as a singular pronoun. As always, the goal is clarity, not rigid adherence to a rule. They/them/their is acceptable in limited cases as a singular and-or gender-neutral pronoun, when…
California’s Ed Chau withdrew his proposed legislation that would have criminalized the willing sharing of “a false or deceptive statement designed to influence the vote” on any issue or candidate. (The Electronic Frontier Foundation objected to the bill: “You can’t fight fake news with a bad law.”) The bill would also make it unlawful for…
Similar:Teaching “The Odyssey” at San QuentinThe opening of “The Odyssey” describes O…BooksCrime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over In the weeks leading up to the US midt…Current_EventsTwitter, Fix Your Cropping AlgorithmWhen given the chance to crop four diffe…CybercultureFather-daughter bonding between takes.That’s a prop knife in my right hand. AestheticsA crushing backlash…
Similar:I let her tend the rabbits.Great production of a very moving story….BooksJane Elliott’s “National Brotherhood Week” Lesson https://youtu.be/oGvoXeXCoUYCultureWhy Fears of Fake News Are OverhypedFacebook seems to have made changes that…CultureSo Long Blogging. Hello—Yep, We're Going to Say It—PloggingI still blog, because I want control ove…BusinessFox lawyers Convince Judge that Fox's Tucker Carlson is "not stating…
Similar:Opinion: A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden signals what’s coming (Washington Post)Critical thinking skills and basic textu…AcademiaGiven a chance to explain his support for a YouTuber who warns about alien DNA, Trump abru…After mounting a half-hearted defense of…Current_EventsWhy Student Athletes Continue to FailWhen student athletes were asked how muc…AcademiaOrson Welles Radio Play "War of…
Similar:Datalore (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Data's bro wants to be with a big crystal tr…In “Datalore,” an encounter with Data’s …CultureTrump Fires Senior Adviser’s Son From Transition for Sharing Fake NewsTrump senior adviser’s son, who used a t…Current_EventsI Made My Friends Test the 19th Century’s Hottest Dating Tactic: Reading AloudThere are perfectly good…