Georgia: “One good thing about Jennifer Hudson’s family tragedy – two less Obama voters.” A 57-year old grandmother is killed in her home, as is her 29-year-old son. A seven-year-old child is missing and there is every reason to fear for his survival as well. And [a reader who commented as] “Dagny and John’s Love [...]

David Sedaris: Undecided: Humor: The New Yorker Sedaris skewers undecideds in 2008. Classic. tags: sedaris, writing, humor, satire, elections08 I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think [...]

Mark Nickolas: What Political Malpractice Looks Like (The B Team That Ran The McCain Campaign Into The Ground) tags: mccain, elections08 Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Obama and McCain strategists are worlds apart tags: no_tag DAVID Axelrod, the political consultant behind the stunning rise of the Democratic White House hopeful, does [...]

Fellow Army vet and English teacher Jan Seiter and I had a dialogue on a comment thread that I want to share on this post. It will mostly be of interest to English and history teachers, I think. I hope some of you weigh in. In the meantime, it gave me an opportunity to list [...]

Sarah Palin: the character question should rule her out :: Iain Martin – Annotated tags: no_tag In contrast to Palin, one of Barack Obama’s most attractive traits, alongside his sense of calm, is his flexibility, his adaptability and his willingness to consider his options and learn. That’s going to be of more use in the [...]

The Last Lynching: Ted Koppel documentary on Discovery tonight – Boing Boing tags: racism, usa, culture, video Zakaria: U.S. has itself to blame for financial crisis – CNN.com tags: usa, economy, culture, capitalism, history, politics CNN: What do you think caused this crisis? Don’t Miss Zakaria’s new book ‘Fareed Zakaria: GPS’ Zakaria: We did, all [...]

“Joe Jobless already trying McCain economic plan.” A reader last week mentioned this “Wordling Political Speeches” as a NYTimes lesson plan, so I Wordled McCain’s stump speech in Colorado this week. I thought I’d have fun with it by turning it into an open thread for readers to play with. Here are the rules: Write [...]

kdka.com – McCain Campaign Worker Confessed To Making Up Story Of Attack BAM. Can things get any worse for the GOP? It will be interesting to read the comment threads full of racist anger over this “assault,” with nary a hint of skepticism. Will there be any reflection? tags: hoax, mccain, elections08 A Pittsburgh police [...]

Last week, Wikispaces invited me to give a Wikispaces in Education Webinar about four wiki projects I’ve done in high school English and history classes: The Broken World Wiki Textbook, a student-made textbook of modern world history from WW1 to WW2, featuring text, images, and embedded videos and student video lectures (and linked to a [...]

Schools Matter: College Board Introduces New Test to Sort Human Capital in 8th Grade Great. SAT for 8th-graders. tags: ETS, education TRAIL MIX: McCain Defends Palin on Imus, Bob Barr Claims McCain is ‘Toast’ Another sign that the GOP troubles don’t stop with McCain. Might we see a new conservative party rise to replace the [...]