Here is a great example of a sentence that begs for the passive voice to be dropped and an active agent to be put in: “As a fat woman, I have been taught that there is an order of operations for love: First, you get thin; then, you can date who you want.” This is no way to make progress in working on one’s issues.
[Russian] This is an absolutely beautiful post on the Ukrainian Revolution. If you happen to read Russian, you need to read it now. NOW, I said!
I have no idea how this blogger got on my blogroll but s/he says really smart, well-informed things about Russia. Which is extremely rare.
Scott Walker compared ISIS with. . . the teachers of Wisconsin. I still don’t understand what possessed the people of Wisconsin to vote for this dumbass.
“Man gets life in prison for selling $20 worth of weed to undercover cop.” This is just wrong, folks.
[Russian] A very important post on why it’s much harder to separate from bad parents than it is from good ones.
Why does Stanford waste money on pathetic and shallow MOOCs?
[Spanish] Franco lives on in Spain’s pathetic insistence to pay the money it doesn’t have to promote religious classes in secular schools.
A very interesting post on why the Middle East doesn’t matter any more.
[Russian] Boris Nemtsov was not killed on the bridge.
“House Republicans abandoned their futile effort to tie funding for the Department of Homeland Security to the rollback of Obama’s immigration policies on Tuesday, approving its budget for the full year.” And everybody just died of boredom. This show has really lost its punch the umpteenth time around. Can’t these clowns learn a new trick or two?
Idiots bash Common Core for teaching kids that facts and opinions do not have the same value.
If people wonder why I despise mainstream journalists, here is a great example of one such useless blabberer: “The problem with Nemtsov’s politics wasn’t so much his adherence to radical neoliberalism, but his shallowness, his grotesque elitism, and his authoritarianism. Nemtsov is one of the top-down Russian liberals, cut from the same authoritarian cloth as Chubais.” His framework is so pathetically parochial that the poor freak can’t even conceive of stepping back from it to look at the world.
The idea of students as “victims of laptops” sounds extraordinarily funny to me.
I’m as sick and tired as the linked blogger of “people who make even me not want to be associated with feminism, because if you don’t prepare for every sensitivity, every different category, and every contingency in life when you make a comment, then you are bashed from here to eternity.”
“We need more teachers who are rooted in the community where they teach. To actually teach a student, it’s not just enough to believe in that student’s ability and potential– you have to be able to understand their world, their life, their background, their culture well enough to see past all of that to where their potential lies and what odds and ends it’s hiding behind.” And this is precisely why I’m a lot more effective as a teacher here than at any of my previous schools. I’m not rooted in this community geographically but there are things that are much bigger than geography. I get the students’ reality, that’s what matters.
The post of the week is this brilliant post on higher education. I rarely agree with anything as fully and completely as I agreed with this post.
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