Thursday, September 27, 2007

Are Our President Thinking?

President Bush asks a rhetorical question, "Is our children learning?" His answer? "Childrens do learn."

Am I the only one who has noticed that the press is no longer printing the grammar- and spell-checked versions of Presidential remarks? It seems like we are now seeing the actual quotations, warts and all.

Critical Thinking and the Columbia Brouhaha

Dave Winer posts a though-provoking set of observations and questions regarding the speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University:
Media you can't trust. I saw most of the speech given on Monday by Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University. I also watched a lot of the coverage that night and the following morning by MSNBC and CNN, and I gotta say, they behaved shamefully, as badly as Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, who introduced Ahmadinejad. ... [Scripting News]
Follow this link to read his post and for links to other useful resources about this issue.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

A Blog Resurrected

Did I spell that correctly?

I feel like I need a blog that is not connected to my profession and hobbies, where I can post whatever seems interesting to me at the time. This will be that blog.