thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspxThis should be available for streaming/podcast Monday if This American Life isn't syndicated on your local public radio station.  It's so reaffirming because this is what I've been contending with for the last 5 years.  I am happy to be moving somewhere, anywhere, else in 6 months, but it will also be ( Read more... )

I had wanted to take off work, but alas!  It seems that speech-disordered kids don't spontaneously recover in support of Obama.

I can't stand it.  I just want to vote.  Damn you Pennsylvania and your antiquated save-it-for-election-day laws.  Looking forward to waiting in a line for 5 hours after work.

I found this article mentioned in a Judith Warner piece and thought it was illuminating in more ways than one.  It helps to explain the question of why well-reasoned, logical arguments generally fail to penetrate the conservative mindset.  I think many of us liberals have been so outraged and disgusted that it only fuels arguments that we think so ( Read more... )

Imagine if he had a gun...

And they say guns don't kill people.  Well, they do in higher number than switchblades, that's for sure.  Can you imagine our government consistently calling for stricter gun control after every shooting?

So you might have noticed that Obama didn't win Pennsylvania.  Over the past few weeks, I've put in countless hours making phone calls, organizing volunteer meetings, distributing literature, and knocking on doors.  I was disappointed, but not surprised, by Tuesday's results.  The good news is that Obama won my county and my precinct by a large ( Read more... )

Had my first job offer a while back...turned it down today.  Now I'm experiencing serious inner turmoil because it's looking increasingly likely that there won't be any other job offers for public schools within driving distance from here, despite the fact that I applied to 14 separate school districts and 2 local education agencies.  This time ( Read more... )

One response to the pervasive, specious, and (frankly) insulting suggestion that Obama supporters are delusional cultists:

I'm a skeptic by nature and a pessimist at heart. I don't accept anything on blind faith. So when critics ridicule Barack's message of hope, inspiration, and unity as nothing more than vacuous talk, I cringe because I SEE the ( Read more... )

I've been volunteering to collect signatures to put Obama and his delegates on the Pennsylvania primary ballot. There's a lot of head-scratching from most folks, i.e., "Isn't he already on the ballot??". Nope, no candidate is in this state until they collect at least 2000 signatures from registered Democrats. Anyhow, it seems absolutely amazing ( Read more... )

...But who's counting ( Read more... )

Classes start on Monday, and I really can't begin to describe how much I do NOT want to do this. I was already burned out going into this summer, but after working full-time for 6 weeks and actually applying my knowledge in this field it is just so much more painful going back to the lab and classroom. In the real world, you have less than 15 ( Read more... )