Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This just needs to be said, in re the following sentence:
Judy Benitez, executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, cautioned that it might be too soon to say whether there really were rapes at the evacuation sites […]

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SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. […]

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It’s really weird to me what I didn’t know as a kid. I still don’t know as much as I should know about this incident, but my memory of the Iran Hostage Crisis is this:
I was sitting on the floor, “Indian-style,” listening to the teacher. She sat in one of those black plastic chairs with […]

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There were so many worthy candidates for this list, but since I want to have some fun on New Year’s Eve, here is the short list of people who need to kiss my plastic white ass.
Nick Saban

Nick Satan Saban used to be our coach. When we hired him, it was a big deal to us, […]

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Teacher bloggers make asides in their blogs about how nobody reads except teachers. This is always said with a wink because deep down we all want it this way. It’s that us-four-no-more thing that happens at church. And between Larry and the Beeve.
Blogging will fail as a tool for widespread change in the education system […]

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Go to sadcox’s blog and vote for the most annoying guy on radio [read: Sean Hannity.]
Maybe Hannity will get the message and go away.
I only regret that I have but one vote to give to the cause of letting that pinhead know how much I hate his show.

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This image flashed across my screen during a commercial for Forty Year Old Virgin during Law and Order: Criminal Intent on the USA cable network last night. This image is NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
Image here.
I know that what is happening in the image is not what it looks like. But it does look like it. […]

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I wish I could teach like Matt Groening. I was just watching the First Tree House of Horror from The Simpsons. Just the part where Bart is The Raven with a Bart head, and Homer is the speaker of the famous poem who fell asleep (snoring, of course) with a book on his belly. Perfect!
It […]

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I have wanted to post a raw twitter session but am finding it hard because twitter doesn’t lend itself to re-publishing tweets. This is a shortcoming of twitter. So, to read this, you have to start at the bottom and read up. I’ll see how it works.
Read from the bottom up! OR — Just […]

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A word from my favorite author and ultimate hero, Kurt Vonnegut:
This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
One of them was a science-fiction writer named Kilgore Trout. He was a nobody at the time, and he supposed his life was over. […]

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