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Notes from the Perimeter: Willful Ignorance: Should Students Be Allowed to Choose What Not to Study?

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Notes from the Perimeter. Thursday, January 7, 2010. Willful Ignorance: Should Students Be Allowed to Choose What Not to Study? Jack Summers, a Newton, MA, tenth-grader, might not know everything but he definitely knows what he doesn’t want to know. Jack, a self-proclaimed atheist, objected to an assignment in his mandatory English class: to read a section of the Bible as an example of literature. The assignment was to explore the Bible as a piece of literature. It’s far too simplistic to deny that we ch...

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Notes from the Perimeter: Reverse the Curse

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Notes from the Perimeter. Thursday, January 7, 2010. Why do they hate us? The Football Gods (TFGs), I mean. They seem to have a malign and perverse interest in knees and in yesterday’s TexMess smote yet another brilliant player with their evil touch. Oh, Wes, say it ain’t so! Last week I mentioned significant injury as worst-case scenario, and that nearly happened. Why do I contend that Welker’s injury is nearly. Two words: Darryl Stingley. So, what now? The odds, already dubious, are set against them.

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Notes from the Perimeter: October 2008

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Notes from the Perimeter. Thursday, October 23, 2008. As the leaves burnish and the chill night air of the New Hampshire north country hints of the monsoons of snow to come, it’s hard to remember the tender days of spring when life was bursting up through snowplow debris and, all over the country, graduates were being exhorted by a multiplicity of commencement speakers to get out there and make a difference. Our contract with our elected officials is complex. We give them permission to make weighty d...

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Notes from the Perimeter: November 2008

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Notes from the Perimeter. Friday, November 14, 2008. Dear Republican friends: I don’t know what to say. I told you so? No Better luck next time? However, I can imagine your pain. If Obama had lost on Tuesday I would have felt dismay and disenfranchisement, and worry that the things I care about are not the things they care about. To the winners belong the spoils but with the rewards comes responsibility. Delirious delight is the flip side of despair and the pendulum continues to swing.

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Notes from the Perimeter: August 2008

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Notes from the Perimeter. Saturday, August 30, 2008. A Season of Change. On our way down the 16th Street Mall we pass pods of riot cops on horseback the horses wearing eye shields like their riders and a couple, Anita West-Ware and her husband Kim McKinney, offering photo ops with Barack Obama (cardboard cutout version). That’s as close as I’m likely to get so I avail myself of the chance to hug the Contender. You cannot leave. As in CANNOT. As in: need to use the bathroom? A Season of Change. Hope sprin...

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Notes from the Perimeter: September 2008

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Notes from the Perimeter. Friday, September 26, 2008. The Sarah Contradictions: Cowboy Down. I don’t know about you, but I certainly wish to avoid any circumstance where I find myself in the dentist’s chair, a drill the size of a pile driver looming over me, no chance of oblivion or even conscious sedation (which actually is sort of an okay reason to put oneself in harm’s way), and a voice chortling gleefully: Drill, baby, drill! Note to self and to country: Grow up. Posted by peaco at 10:01 AM. Well, no...

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Notes from the Perimeter: January 2009

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Notes from the Perimeter. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Dancing in the New Year. Please read "Yes We Did" after this one - I haven't figured out to slip a blog into a sequence! Resolution 1: Remember the true power of giving. Resolution 2: Make someone mad every day. Resolution 3: Intend the impossible. Posted by peaco at 5:58 PM. Yes, We Did! January 20, 2009, Washington, DC. I’m cold. I’m wicked cold. It’s freakin’ freezing out here on the Mall where, I hear later, the temperature is in the single...Natur...

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Notes from the Perimeter: Don't Be Mean to the Girl: Gender, Power and the Politics of Pretty

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Notes from the Perimeter. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Don't Be Mean to the Girl: Gender, Power and the Politics of Pretty. When Christine O'Donnell upset the Republican applecart in Delaware on Tuesday, Karl Rove called her, among other things, " nutty. Oh Karl. That's just not nice. One thing that seems to be true in these through-the-looking-glass days of American politics is that you can't be mean to the (Republican) girl. First published in www.care2.com in September 2010). Posted by peaco at 12:11 PM.

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Notes from the Perimeter: Natural Rejection: Texas Judge Dismisses Creationism Degree Lawsuit

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Notes from the Perimeter. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Natural Rejection: Texas Judge Dismisses Creationism Degree Lawsuit. In a decision that’s bound to further rile the advocates of creationism-as-science, Austin federal judge Sam Sparks has dismissed a suit filed by the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research. First, a little background. Part of Sparks’s opinion. For pointing out this out.). One irony here (of so many) is that California, where the ICR graduate school is based, has allowed the degre...