Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 4, 2024This is either incredible stupidity or incredible dishonesty from the cops, and I honestly can't tell which.
- Untitled May 2, 2024I love that Caterpillar boots were among the returned items, and in this photo an Amazon worker took, you can clearly see the "CAT" logo near the cat. Cat climbed into Amazon return box, found alive 630 miles away wapo.st/3JJ3vqT
- Untitled May 1, 2024A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better. Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! #PoliCartoon #Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage
- Untitled April 30, 2024People on reddit are fighting about a cartoon I did about why the US health care system sucks and I am enjoying this too too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ch0l0r/why_us_health_care_is_such_a_terrible_system/?sort=old
- Untitled April 30, 2024I just posted a new cartoon! It's patreon supporters only for now, but in a week or so I'll make it public. :-) https://www.patreon.com/posts/deus-ex-machina-103359912?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
- Untitled May 4, 2024
Category Archives: Education
I Need Some Help Designing a Technical Writing Assignment
So I am finally getting around to prepping my classes for Fall 2011. I wish I’d started sooner–indeed, I’ve been thinking about posting this for quite a while–but such is the nature of things that I am only getting to … Continue reading
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My Wife is Trying to Raise Money for Her Classroom
My wife teaches kindergarten in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NY, a low-income, high-crime area with lots of needy and otherwise difficult kids. The school where she teaches has been hard enough hit by the budget cuts plaguing the school … Continue reading
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Rick Perry on Abstinence-Based Sex Education
In Perry’s defense, there is absolutely no good reason to support abstinence-based sex education, so his inability to come up with one is unsurprising. That said, it says something that he can’t even come up with one of the standard … Continue reading
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Why I Haven’t Been Blogging Much
If you look to the right in the picture below, you can see me holding a sign that says, “Restore full-time faculty lines NOW!” This picture was taken by a NYSUT photographer at a rally we held last week to … Continue reading
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Finding Myself in the Thick of It
I have been away from serious blogging for a while now, and I’ve been missing it, but my life has been turbulent lately and there just hasn’t been the time to reflect that I need in order to write. I … Continue reading
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Cheating for “Superman”
Few figures loom larger in the effort to corporatize education than former District of Columbia Schoosl Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Relentlessly self-promoting, Rhee has pushed a simple formula for education reform: just break the teachers’ unions, force out “bad” teachers (as measured … Continue reading
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The Republican Party in Wisconsin Appears to be Using the Freedom of Information Act to Intimidate Professor William Cronon, a Historian at the University of Wisconsin
You really need to read the blog posts–there are several; start here–that Professor William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin has written on his blog, Scholar as Citizen, about what has happened since he published a post called Who’s Really … Continue reading
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