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[…]
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Day 135: A snapshot of entitlement, because it actually works the same regardless of the stakes
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[…]
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Day 134: More Life in the Trump America
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,[…]
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Day 133: Some old Memes
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[…]
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Day 132: Social Justice Warrior with a side of cheese
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[…]
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Day 131: A story
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[…]
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Day 130: Throwback Thursday: That Time I used CM Punk to teach Kairos
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.[…]
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Day 129: the truth about cats and dogs
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[…]
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Day 128: Taking "our jobs"
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,[…]
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Day 127: Flags
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[…]
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