A simple classroom change to make trans students feel at home (essay) @insidehighered As a seasoned faculty member, my initial class prep has dwindled from months to… well, let’s just say… much less time than I needed as a rookie. I have notes from the previous semester on what worked and didn’t work, and I …

Because circumspect informed reporting is hard.46 examples of Muslim outrage about Paris shooting that Fox News can’t seem to find Every time an extremist who is Muslim commits an act of terrorism, people ask where the moderate Muslim voices condemning violence are. (Interestingly, as a Jew, I don’t usually get asked to condemn extremism when it …

Not the first time Republican’s tried to legislate how experts do their math. But really scary when the math has been shown repeatedly over the last 2 decades to have the opposite effect. Tax cuts for the wealth have never helped our economy, I don’t care how many times you try to wish it so.Why …

The NYPD’s ‘Work Stoppage’ Is Surreal In an alternate universe, the New York Police might have just solved the national community-policing controversy. cross-posted on Facebook

The crazy story behind the murder of my paternal 3rd great grandfather.Story of Laura Aurvilla Hawn contributed by Weston Renoud When Laura Aurvilla Hawn was born on September 1, 1835, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, her father, Jacob, was 30 and her mother, Harriet, was 17. She had two children with Joel Perkins between 1854 and …

I didn’t know I needed a business tiara until now.How to Choose the Perfect Business Tiara This morning, The New York Times revealed a trade secret that many of us in the business world already know: Tiaras are the best accessories for a day at the office. This may be shocking to some, but those …

Great read, contextualizes current events with the formation of our country.The CIA & NYPD: Perilous Insubordination In Our Democracy For the past two weeks, we have been confronted with the unpleasant fact that there are people who believe themselves beyond the control and sanctions of the civil power, as well as their direct superiors. cross-posted …

Something stopped by for Christmas… cross-posted on Facebook

http://ift.tt/16EnN02MYST – Chapter 1 From the game: MYST cross-posted on Facebook

“He says the small indignities they have experienced pale in comparison to young men who have been mistaken for criminals just for being ‘dressed the way teenagers dress.’”Obama opens up about being mistaken for valet, waiter President Obama revealed how he was mistaken for a valet and a waiter before he became President. cross-posted on …

Wow! President Obama just took action to protect one of our greatest national treasures: Alaska’s Bristol Bay. http://go.wh.gov/xC4Rex cross-posted on Facebook

Browns Player Offers Thoughtful Rebuke After Police Union Slams T-Shirt Protest After police unions slammed his decision to wear a T-shirt protesting the police shootings of two black people in Ohio, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins gathered the media on Monday to explain himself more fully. Hawkins outlined his rationale, speaking without notes, according …

“Do people who change #BlackLivesMatter to #AllLivesMatter run thru a cancer fundraiser going ‘THERE ARE OTHER DISEASES TOO’”Arthur Chu on Twitter “Do people who change #BlackLivesMatter to #AllLivesMatter run thru a cancer fundraiser going “THERE ARE OTHER DISEASES TOO”” cross-posted on Facebook

Someone made a Christmas wishlist for me!31 Holiday Gift Ideas For The Lumbersexual In Your Life As told to me by the lumbersexual in mine. cross-posted on Facebook

What the World Is Saying About the CIA Torture Report Here’s a look at how the foreign media have reacted to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s revelations. cross-posted on Facebook

If Obama can do it…Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program | WIRED Today President Obama became the first president in history to write a computer program. cross-posted on Facebook

Um… did ya see this?President Obama Just Crushed It On ‘The Colbert Report’ – The Daily Banter President Obama was pretty damn funny. cross-posted on Facebook

IDIOTech – Intelligent Design Institute of Technology calls this the work of “activist judges.”Federal Judge Rejects Anti-Evolution Lawsuit Concocted By Kansas Creationists Conservative “Christians” must be fuming in Kansas after a federal judge nixed their latest effort to ban evolution in schools. cross-posted on Facebook

I disagree a little, but mostly agree. I think people ARE defining “slam poetry” which makes it a genre, but the push back is absolutely needed. Slam as an event, and an experience is beautiful, and I’ve absolutely seen “slam poetry” fall flat against poetry in a slam. Slam has always been about making your …