Fact check: DeVos never said ‘only’ 0.02% of children will die if schools reopen in the fall
Several times in the past few days I’ve come across this claim in my social media feed. I didn’t share it or try to fact-check it; I just kept scrolling. Here’s the verdict, from USA Today: “Based on our research, this claim is FALSE. While the education secretary has advocated for schools reopening in the…
This is Ralph. Ralph is a concept, created by you while reading this.
Just Doesn’t LIke Masks
Bloopers from my monologue for @pictclassictheatre ‘s Shakespeare Webinar this Friday at 2:00!
View this post on Instagram Bloopers from my monologue for @pictclassictheatre ‘s Shakespeare Webinar this Friday at 2:00! Sign up with the link in my bio! A post shared by Carolyn Jerz (@carolyn.j.maureen) on Jul 14, 2020 at 10:08am PDT
Novel defined: a term used by some students to mean “any text we study in English class”
Mechanical innards for a Steampunk set piece. #Blender3D #greebles
Okay, a lot of the world is pretty awful right now, but here’s an uplifting video about the “success kid” meme.
What the police really believe: Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.
“That whole thing about the bad apple? I hate when people say that,” Rizer tells me. “The bad apple rots the barrel. And until we do something about the rotten barrel, it doesn’t matter how many good fucking apples you put in.” Fascinating story, that starts by focusing on Arthur Rizer, a former military police…
Fatal Encounters: One man is tracking every officer-involved killing in the U.S.
Most cops don’t kill the people they’re called upon to protect and serve.
Some government organizations make it difficult for members of the public to learn exactly how many people have died during interactions with police.
New Car
Wednesday morning my resourceful brother-in-law called me to say he found a great deal 3.5 hours from where I live. Our local dealer could not match the price. I hopped into a rental car, and drove home that night in a 2020 Hyundai Kona.
Somewhere out there, somebody is working really hard to come up with a meme to blame this on the lying America-hating fake news media.
Front page of the Miami Herald newspaper, with two headlines circled: “Florida schools ordered to reopen in August” and “Miami-Dade restaurants, gyms closing to fight COVID surge”
Thinking about physical therapy and cheerful, chatty older gents…
I feel like I’m living in a sitcom. A cheerful, chatty older gent was using the physical therapy table next to me this morning, delivering a constant stream of pleasant banter on the order of “Are you workin’ hard, or hardly working?” I’m attending PT twice a week because I noticed a decreased range of…
Stick to facts, but write news your readers will actually want to read.
Students who put a lot of effort into learning the editing guidelines in the AP Stylebook might benefit from the occasional reminder that good news writing requires the creative use of language, a good idea for detail and the ability to make connections between your readers and the news. The sources we interview are real…
No, Trump’s tweet about “Heritage, History, and Greatness” is not a quote from a speech Hitler gave in 1939
Trump really did tweet “This is a battle to save the Heritage, History, and Greatness of our Country!” Plugging those words into Google Translate yields “Dies ist ein Kampf um die Rettung des Erbes, der Geschichte und der Größe unseres Landes!” I could be wrong, but I think Größe in German just means “physical size,”…
And to think… I had just decided to retire this meme because the last time I used in class, the students didn’t get it.
Summer photos of the daughter.
The Declaration of Independence
I recorded a recitation of the Declaration of Independence for WAOB Audio Theatre last year. They’ve released a remastered version.
For God’s sake John, sit down!
Transfigurations (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 25) Injured Humanoid Charms Beverly, Glows
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. A low-key story that revisits the “corporeal species evolving into a higher form” trope, this time from the perspective of Dr. Crusher, who observes the physical process, as an injured humanoid with lumpy face bumps gradually starts to glow. Not a great episode, but new to me, so a…