Marco Rubio is sad that a Biden aide called Republicans in Congress a naughty word.
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Stuff I’m thinking about.
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What I’m reading: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
One of the advantages of having a bad memory: when I re-read a book, it often feels like I’m reading it for the first time.
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Fact checking is dead
Not long after last night’s “debate” ended, PolitiFact posted its “Fact Checking the First 2020 Debate” article.
What a waste of space.
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Another for the books
That’s me, about as close to my birth day as possible. The photographer was probably my dad. Birthdays keep happening, whether I want them to or not.
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School supplies and nostalgia
The Younger was given a list of school supplies which, in our pandemic-ridden world, I bought through Amazon.
I wasn’t prepared for the wash of nostalgia I’d feel when the supplies arrived.
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Captions in YouTube: accurate and in sync
The pandemic has pushed a lot of teachers into distance education. And distance ed requires — legally, yes, but also pedagogically — that we accurately caption our videos.
At a recent workshop, some colleagues expressed interest in a video about how I handle captions in YouTube… et voilà!
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Trump, the press, and the problem of accidental truth
Photo by Heather Zabriskie on Unsplash Even when Trump tells the truth — miracles can happen! — the press doesn’t know what to do.
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Post-truth pragmatism: When “what works” stops working
Photo by Kumiko SHIMIZU on Unsplash For the most part, a loosely defined pragmatism has helped me make sense of the world fairly well. But in this “post-truth” era — including, but not limited to, Trump and his enablers — I’ve been feeling the need to think more rigorously.
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