I ended last year’s “Best of, etc.” with a strangely quaint optimism: “here’s hoping for a 2020 that doesn’t suck.”
Cute.
[Read more…]The best, etc., of 2020
Marco Rubio, Snowfake
The Ride (a story)
The door opened, and the woman slipped into the seat next to his.
[Read more…]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.
[Read more…]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.
[Read more…]Another for the books
Birthdays keep happening, whether I want them to or not.
[Read more…]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.
gdkembleCaptions 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!
Pragmatism and democracy (Bacon, Chapter 2: Dewey)
Of the first wave of pragmatists — Peirce, James, and Dewey — Dewey spoke most explicitly about democracy, putting him at the heart of my inquiry about pragmatism and ethics in a post-truth world.
[Read more…]Two ways I use TextExpander
If you find yourself typing the same things over and over, TextExpander might be the tool for you.
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