Life updates from Ranty McrRanterson
Coulter complains about the liberal media, but also about liberal teachers, about how they are watering down the moral fiber of our nations youth. All I can think about this is that if teachers are in fact predominantly liberal (I have had so many conservative assholes in my college career I'm not even sure if this is true), it is because conservatives are not becoming teachers, not because liberal are using their crazy liberal witchcraft to keep conservatives out of the education biz. Being a teacher is an honorable career choice, one made not for yourself but for the benefit of others. Clearly this is not a decision that all of the people raging about liberal teachers in the books reviews have chosen to make. It reminds me of all of the people in favor of war, but not their own children serving in it. It is impossible to be taken seriously about something that you yourself do not embody. Pro war? Join the military, they are short on troops.
One reviewer advocated making Coulter's books mandatory text (fact?) in a high school classroom to balance the current lopsided political nature of the classroom. To begin with, political commentary isn't appropriate in a regular highschool classroom. On the few occasions that political debate ensued in a classroom setting someone usually left crying. It is in no way appropriate for a public school to formally impress any political views on to the students, specifically with a book written by a homophobic anti-environmentalist who thinks that there is no point in taking care of the planet, we are just going to colonize mars anyway. While teachers do play a large part in the growth of their students, it is ultimately up to the student themselves to make informed political decisions. If parents are in fact so concerned with liberal teachers, they might want to consider becoming active members of their childrens lives, teachers should not be a primary influence on children, parents should.
School is good. I dont really know how my online classes will be, probably pretty standard. I have professional writing (easy tech writing stuff I have done a zillion times) and comparative politics (I thinnk this will be a lot like my civil rights class). At school I have human rights, which should be cool, we watched an Amnesty video today and I am doing a big project about the death penalty. Then I have feminist theory which seems like it will be scary and I lot of work but I really look forward to what I will gain from it. Jodi is in that class so that helps. I also have some lame film class with 234098 people in it, it will be lame. I am formally contesting my grade for magazine writing last semester, I hope that works out ok.
I have been playing tooooo much guitar hero lately, it is bad, I won't play at all today (I hope, I say that every day)
I applied for an internship in connecticut with pepperidge farm/campbell soup for the summer. If all goes well I will be graduating in the fall, scary.
In other news, this weekend I will be attending the all female tattoo convention in Kissimmee for Prick magazine. So yeah, another published article yo.