I'm not a real blogger. I don't do the same kinds of things as these folks lauded by Peggy Noonan. But I might someday, although with my own twist.
I've been taking it slow(er). Peggy's direct: "I've been attacked. Too bad. If you can't take it, you shouldn't be thinking aloud for a living."
No doubt.
February 21, 2005
Why Disability Studies Matters
By Lennard J. Davis < ahref="mailto:info@insidehighered.com">>mailto:info@insidehighered.com
You know there is something wrong when 100 of the major film critics in the
United States say that Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby is a great
work and every disability scholar and activist rails against the movie. The
film continues to garner praise and awards -- a Director's Guild Award for
Eastwood, seven Academy Award nominations, as well as Best Actress
and Director Golden Globes -- while in Chicago and Berkeley people using
wheel chairs, service dogs, and red-tipped canes organized protests at
which they held up signs that read "Disability Is Not a Death Sentence" and
"Not Dead Yet."
~ David sends this gem along:
Interview with Carol Padden and Tom Humphries.
They've got a new book out, and their old one is still a classic, Deaf in America. Tom is credited with coining the term, audism, to describe systemic discrimination and prejudice against deaf people.
You never know what might happen if you stay late in the computer lab!
If you've missed out on how Jeff Gannon burned Bush, a woman formerly known as an esteemed colleague of the COM dept discovered several porn sites of this wanna be reporter who apparently was paid off by the White House to ask Bush questions that would make him (Bush) look good. Turns out Gannon is not a reporter at all, but an online porn figure. PLENTY can be found by a google search, but none of you will beat the stiff competition of our colleague's wit: "My husband's is bigger than his." A hard job indeed. As John Aravosis said, quoted in the Washington Post story linked above: "The larger issue is how did someone like this get access to the White House."
that Michael Peter Smith himself really found Reflexivity or has his own little software engine checking out who's been reading his book? He added a comment to this post from last fall. :-)
He posted the URL to his website. His earlier book, Transnationalism from Below might be useful for my research project on interpreting.
