Storey Enjoys Snow, has a Sandwich, and Becomes a Father
Getting the Swaddles: a Game-Changer
Clayton v. American Health Insurance
Don’t Cut the Umbilical Cord!
The Horrors of… JAUNDICE!
The Power of Saying No
Making Birth an Emergency
BABABAMAMFAPHDDOI (Yellow)
Pumping and Dumping MepCoin
Danny Trejo’s Ex-Wife Rips Off Russ
The Reddit Revolution Makes Progress
A Serious Exploration of Free Speech, Censorship, and Education
Google Now Does Evil
Corporations Will Float Everyone’s Boat by Magic Hands
Facebook vs. Twitter vs. the Future
2020: Everybody Dies
Storey’s Thesis
Storey’s Thesis on Universities as Pyramid Schemes
Greg Cashes in His Elixirs to Not Die
Have You Heard the Good News About Hy-Flex?
Harvard Could Build Another Harvard
College, Huh, Who is it Necessary for?
One-Year Mandatory National Service
Social Media Doom and Despair
Do You Feel Lucky?
The Meppers Solve Our Educational Future
Russ Quickly Tries to Sabotage the Show
Midsummer… or is it?
Neil Gaiman Stories
Poe vs. Lovecraft
Smart? Speakers
Angels of Boredom
Libra vs. MepCoin
Our Utopian/Dystopian Corporate/Governmental Future
Storey and Greg’s Stump Speech for Elizabeth Warren
Russ Joins the Yang Gang
An Extensive Analysis of the American Electorate
Fear of a Jeffrey Epstein
The More Tech Changes…
What’s in a Title?
The Dreaded Phdmabs
As a Non, I Sequitir
As a Homeowner…
The Vanishing Point of Humility
Twitch Kappa and the Twilight of the Crumbling Republic
George Orwell’s Huck Finn
The Search for the Universal or Objective
Molecules of Freedom
Liberty Mutual Scoops the Emu
[Redacted] Gets on [Redacted]
(Game of) Thrones All, Folks!
Why You Should Hire Writers for Writing Things
Give a Man a Quarter and He Can Play One Game, Teach Him to Write in Basic and He Can Feed a Village (Really), They Don’t Make Video Games the Way They Used To (and Get Off My Lawn!), Russ Can’t Help Falling In Love…Again…, Is This the Text That Launched a Thousand Ships?, How Rabbits From Certain Places Can Help You Recover Your Voice, How Many Meppers Does It Take to Get One Mepper a Date, Angry Pictures are Angry, and Chemistry = Not Fat.
Beyond expressing my sorrow for the lost and injured and all those affected by this tragedy, I have little to say about the horrific events in Arizona yesterday except one thing. Regular Mep readers / listeners will know all of us here put a high value on communication and the power of rhetoric; the two greatest speakers of the twentieth century (arguably) were Martin Luther King and Adolf Hitler, and I don’t think anyone needs a cheat sheet to determine which person pursued the good and which the evil. What yesterday conclusively, definitively proves is that rhetoric is not an unalloyed good. It is a neutral tool, and it has consequences.
Every once in a while, I’m reminded of why I love literature…and why, just maybe, the future isn’t as bleak as everyone seems to be fond of predicting these days.
Teachers are used to working with less. Primary school teachers are used to buying basic classroom supplies out of their own salaries; secondary school teachers are used to teaching with classrooms at double or more capacity; post secondary teachers at all levels are used to ever increasing demands from multiple masters (publish now, do committee work now, teach now, advise now…everything now, or preferably yesterday). I’ve taught at all these levels, and most of the teachers I know accept their respective situations with a shrug and a sense of humor (there’s a reason the teachers’ lounge is the most important room in any school building for the people to whom it caters).
