Beanstyle Evolution

For those of you who haven’t caught this yet, listen up: There is a good possibility that the draft will be reinstated if the war in Iraq continues. In fact, I would be extremely surprised if it weren’t. The government needs more people to sacrifice for its oil-bloody agenda.
Please please [...]

More damning evidence that mainstream press journalists really do suck.
Well, who’s surprised by this news? Wasn’t there a bunch of running around exclaiming over how violent cartoons influenced kids’ behavior not too long ago? Why on earth would we expect anything different from teens watching soap operas? Are they so evolved they [...]

I just had to write a reflective paper on a student leadership conference I attended last weekend. The conference was powerful in many different ways, I think the main two being the presence of all those other young leaders and some of the things mentioned by the speakers. I’ve already written my paper [...]

jneal sent me a link to a cool site that looks at a developing field: Energy Psychology. This looks like it ties right into the work I want to do around energetic communication so perhaps I’ll be able to eventually use their research. yay! It looks like there’s a certified practitioner [...]

I thought I’d blogged about the ‘reinstate the draft’ rumors that started several months ago but I can’t find the post so perhaps I didn’t. At any rate, the rumor’s been wandering around for a few months now but the topic finally made the Washington Post today. That makes me think it’s more [...]

It just occurred to me that insurance companies (at least in North Carolina) have pretty much got a free ride – given to them by state gov’t. I can’t think of anything else you’re required, by law, to pay for that doesn’t have an immediate benefit. I could understand if the law required [...]

For all you activist educators I realize that this person is not a *new* discovery but she is for me. I’ve just discovered bell hooks. Actually, I’ve ordered several of her books & am going to pick up some others at the library tomorrow. This was prompted by an assignment in my [...]

For those of us who actually read 1984, this seems another step on the path to our own American Minitrue.
Kudos to Mercier but the contrast he provides is ludicrous to the point of idiocy.
Yeah! Big record companies should shut their faces – greedy RIAA bastards
The RIAA’s weak and blabbery response.
Hysterical… My respect [...]

Although the workload at school is nothing like the workload I carried at UNCC (thank the universe!), the last two weeks have been busy. I’ve been meeting people & working with thast on conference stuff for the summer. I’ve also just set up several meetings with various people to discuss possible capstone (thesis) [...]

I’ve had the opportunity recently to interact with several different teachers and observe their teaching styles. This is helpful to me because I’m much more aware of what I do and don’t like in a learning environment. I had a discussion with one instructor that left me shaking my head afterward. X [...]