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Day 136: Poe's Law

June 8, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

If you don’t know what it is, read this entry on Poe’s Law. Or this Wired piece. Poe’s law isn’t new. But it’s something that in the current climate of “The President’s Tweets are official[…]

Day 135: A snapshot of entitlement, because it actually works the same regardless of the stakes

June 7, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I came across a weird case of entitlement and flawed logic… on a gaming Reddit. Shocking, right? But here’s the situation. I’ve been lurking pretty hardcore on the Injustice 2 Reddit. I’m curious whether[…]

Day 134: More Life in the Trump America

June 6, 2017 phillbizarre motivational Phill

Today our President tweeted more hate at the mayor of London. I remember when the 2000 election happened, all the animosity and insults and backbiting and everything that was involved. It was a derisive election,[…]

Day 133: Some old Memes

June 4, 2017 phillPedagogy

I’m in the process of preparing for my summer digital rhetoric class, and one of the things I always stress is memes. I wanted to toss a few of these up today, since I’m[…]

Day 132: Social Justice Warrior with a side of cheese

June 4, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’m a social justice warrior. Students have called me that, insultingly. Fine. That’s what I am. I believe that we need social justice in America and I will fight for it. I have been that[…]

Day 131: A story

June 2, 2017 phillmemoir

I was thinking about a friend of mine the other day. Well… I once had this friend. This is a story. In high school, I had some weird social shifts, the first being my friends[…]

Day 130: Throwback Thursday: That Time I used CM Punk to teach Kairos

June 1, 2017July 23, 2018 phillPedagogy

Again, I originally offered this to a class as an example, I am considering expanding on my reflections on CM Punk. This one starts from a Wikipedia definition of Kairos and goes weird places. Kairos.[…]

Day 129: the truth about cats and dogs

June 1, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

The triangle above is called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It’s not a new concept; it was created by Abraham Maslow in 1943, one of the first post modern tools that IMHO truly transcended being theory[…]

Day 128: Taking "our jobs"

May 31, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’ve recently been having a bit of fun talking about the (not really that) private Facebook group for my home town that Julie and I have been reading and casually engaging with. There are basically,[…]

Day 127: Flags

May 30, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

On Memorial Day, I checked my favorite (nominally) private Facebook group for some local news. There are three complaints about flags: two about a cemetery that isn’t illuminating the flag at night and one about[…]