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Reflections on a Conference
One of the things that my school does for its new teachers is to encourage them to go out and see the wider world of English Teacherdom. In this case, it meant sending me to the JALT 2010 Conference here in Nagoya. For those who don't know, JALT is the Japan Association for Language Teaching, one of the biggest such groups in Japan, and its ( Read more... ) -
NAMBLA? Really?
I found today that the Family Research Council - an advocacy group that advocates, among other things, against gay and lesbian civil rights - wanted people to say what they thought about the group. So I went over to their survey, loaded to bear, and basically threw in all the worst stuff I thought about them. That they were bigots and fearmongers, ( Read more... ) -
A realization....
What with The Holidays coming up and all - I haven't dressed up for Halloween in more than a decade. I think about it now, and it just seems... silly.
Oh, gods, what have I become?!? -
A thought on the Chilean miners....
Boston.com's Big Picture has - as always - an excellent spread of photographs of the rescue mission yesterday. And I know that one of my Big Internet Rules is "Don't read the comments," but I noticed a theme in a lot of them. For example:
"Thanks Boston Globe for bringing these pictures of hope, joy, courage and the protection given by the Lord to ( Read more... ) -
My two predictions....
As this season of Mad Men winds down, here are my two predictions. One is more likely than the other, but I can't say that either one certainly will or will not happen ( Read more... ) -
At least contempt is some kind of attention
I feel bad for Gay Republicans, I really do. They may not need my pity, but there it is.
I read about Homocon, a recent convention for gay Republicans, where Ann Coulter was one of the main speakers. With her usual sandpaper-like delicacy and tact, Ms. Coulter ran off some rather bad gay jokes, culminating in the quip that same-sex marriage “is not ( Read more... )
