I was looking at my dissertation today, wondering if I can yet make a readable book out of it. Now that I’ve got a little distance from what was an agonizing process (at least until the last bit, when I actually started enjoying it), it seems better than I thought at the time. Today I’m posting a very select few of the quotations I used as a kind of shorthand that helps me remember the train of thought that’s at…
I research and evaluate workplace assessments as part of my flex-hours consulting job, so I’m “asssessed” all the time. I’d love to see how they crunch the numbers for this “Personal DNA” Quiz, since there is so much variation and subtlety in the choices here. I love the flexibility of the answers. The spine of it looks like a variation of the 4-quadrant model developed by Marston and Jung, with some alternative vocabulary. Comments from the developers are welcome. My…
NSA Telephone Monitoring – an animated editorial cartoon by Walt Handelsman (to the tune of “I Just Called to Say I Love You”) (thanks Aunt Elaine)
Saxby and I correspond quite often, so I feel comfortable thinking of him by his first-name rather than by the whole ducal title “Republican Senator of Georgia, Saxby Chambliss.” I’ve never known anyone named Saxby before. His job is to work for me and to protect my interests, as a citizen of Georgia and the United States. I don’t feel as though I really have that many people working for me, so I take the responsibility very seriously. I write…
There are tons of lip-synchs and other versions of Liam Lynch’s song My United States of Whateva. I’m not sure who Liam Lynch also did the George Bush version, the soundtrack they are all using on the Bush versions. Overall, the John-Richie version is the best. The depictions of Bush (and others) on these two are…. well… see for yourself and let me know your perspective. The Naruto-Bush version Anime-type cowboy version (from a Bush supporter)