Teaching Rhetoric

A blog post about teaching writing.

Flying

The joys, and utter horrors, of air travel.

Vote.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. -Karl Rove

“They’re Drowning in it”

“It’s really, really hard to be poor.” -Ezra Klein of the Washington Post

“The Affluent Society” and lessons not being learned.

“The economic costs of progress are, however, even less severe than its cultural consequences. Machine industry does not necessarily call for less intelligence on the part of the workers. But it does require a peculiarly narrow and mechanical process of thought and it discourages all other.”
-Galbraith