Odds and Ends - WInd chill edition
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 08:48AM A few things that caught my attention over the past few days:
The Not-the-Father-of-the-Year Award: A man from Minneapolis left his infant son strapped in his car seat for three hours while he visited a strip club. The baby got frost bite and the man got thrown in jail. I find this remarkable. Not that a guy is dumb enough to do this, but that "his wife bailed him out of jail about 2:30 a.m."
Age-ism Alert: I suppose there are legitimate concerns about the new Real ID program that was unveiled last week. But but this really honks me off:
By 2014, anyone seeking to board an airplane or enter a federal building would have to present a REAL ID-compliant card, with the notable exception of those older than 50, Homeland Security officials said.
The over-50 exemption was created to give states more time to get everyone new licenses, and officials say the risk of someone in that age group being a terrorist, illegal immigrant or con artist is much less. By 2017, even those over 50 must have a REAL ID-compliant card to board a plane. (AP story)
Hey, we geezers are just as capable of performing terrorist acts as younger people. We just need a nap afterwards is all.
Chutzpah Award: From LM_Net where there is an ongoing discussion about library media specialists being abused as tech support personnel:
We have a media specialist in our county who was invited to her principal's home for dinner. She and her husband graciously accepted and showed up on time...only to be asked to spend the first hour and a half of the evening hooking up his son's computer!
Brush Up Your Shakespeare: I'm about half finished with Bill Bryson's delightful new book: Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives, 2007). Bryson is at his best here - interesting, funny and perceptive. (He is an Iowa boy, after all.) If you are not a Bryson reader, you ought to be. Both A Walk in the Woods and In a Suburnt Country will have you ROFL.
We Need More of This: A blogger that actually shares concrete classroom instructional strategies - not pontificates on educational theory. The real use of the "social web"?
Johnson's First Law of Blogging: Sooner or later, everyone blogs the cat. (Guilty myself, of course.)
Have a wonderful week! Hope to see some of you SL tomorrow night!
Reader Comments (2)
The Chutzpah Award has happened to myself on numerous occasions. Usually, it is the "dinner bribe", an average dinner with a very large side of spaghetti wires! :)
I hope get some meatballs with your spaghetti!
Doug