Erasing the N-Word in Huck Finn Erases History January 6, 2011, 10:36 pm By Marybeth Gasman In the past few days, the news and internet have been buzzing with talk of a new version of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Auburn University professor Alan Gribben’s new edition of the b[...]
Archive for January 7th, 2011
January 7th, 2011 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
Tim Eyman: 1053 Requires that Legislators Set Tuition.
from Sound Politics: Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law. There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition incre[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:09 am § in Uncategorized
The Sound Bite, How Humans are Evolving?
abstracted from an article by Craig Fehrman at Boston.com By 1992 the length of the average TV sound bite had dropped to a mere nine seconds. “If you couldn’t say it in less than 10 seconds,” Michael Dukakis complained , “it wasn’t heard because it wasn’t aired.” David M. Ryfe and Ma[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 8:56 am § in Politics
What do you do when ?
A State Teeters on the Edge of Bankruptcy? Food is too Expensive to Buy? excerpts from CBS report Illinois’ personal income tax rate, now 3 percent, would climb to 5.25 percent for four years under the plan Cullerton outlined. After that, it would drop to 3.75 percent….. Democrats say they h[...]