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Tag Archives: college
Language – the Original Social Media.
This morning I awoke to the first sunny day in the Sunset district in nearly 40 days. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the fog with the clean, misty air. But after 40 days of gray mornings, it’s pretty darn … Continue reading
UnTENable
adjective: incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, etc.; indefensible. Synonym: baseless, groundless, unsound, weak, questionable. origin of un + tenable – 1640-50 Middle English British dictionary definitions: (of theories, propositions, etc) incapable of being maintained, defended, or vindicated … Continue reading
Posted in Absurd, Education, Life in San Francisco, People, Politics
Tagged administration, America, assessment, City College of San Francisco, college, Course, data collection, disease, education, equity, overwork, pay, school, stress, students, teachers, teaching, untenable, volunteerism
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Justice, Where Fore Out Thou?
Please read this gut-wrenching article and sign Michael Moore’s petition. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34332-michael-moore-is-right-michigan-gov-rick-snyder-has-to-go After seeing two amazing movies this weekend that point to scathing misdeeds of the Church (in the movie “Spotlight”) and of the horrors of the bankers gutting our personal … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics
Tagged banks, CCSF, City College of San Francisco, college, crisis, education, Emergency Managers, finances, Governor Rick Snyder, greedy, justice, Michael Moore, power, scams, Special Trustee, Spotlight, systems, The Big Short, The Church, wrongful expenditures
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Predatory Purveyors of Pedagogy
Dear Diary, This line from an article in the Portland Press Herald encapsulates the points that I will undertake in my writing to you today: “Corinthian Colleges once ran 107 campuses that served more than 100,000 students. It was a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics, Writing
Tagged administration, administrators, AiCA-SF, Atlantic Monthly, Beth A. Wilson, borrow, CCSF, City College of San Francisco, college, compensation, Corinthian Colleges, EDMC, Everest College, executive pay, federal government, For-Profit, Heald College, Jack D. Massimino, Kenneth S. Ord, loans, low-income, pay, pedagogy, personal profit, Plutocrat, Portland Press Herald, predatory, Robert Owen, salary, Stan A. Mortensen, students, tuition, WyoTech
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America: Enough of the TOXIC STRESS on the Middle Already!
Have you been holding your head in your hands for so long now that you realize your arms don’t belong in that place connected to the head? I teach for a living and man, and I have got to tell … Continue reading
School, Music, Reading, Weather, Big Data, Yik Yak, and All Sorts of Non-Sequiturs
Coming to you live from the “HOW TO CONNECT WITH STUDENTS” side of a college campus. My friends, over here in my end of the world at City College of San Francisco in the Broadcast Electronic Media Arts department, we … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Life in San Francisco, Music, Writing
Tagged audio, big data, Broadcast Electronic Media Arts, career, City College of San Francisco, cloud, college, drive, drought, Georgia, hard drive, Incubus, live sound, moxie, music, professor, programs, Sequoia Capital, services, songs, student life, students, sun, sunny, teacher, tomorrow, video, weather, western world, Yik Yak app
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Westward Expansion – Health and Wealth
History repeating… (Click the hyperlink, watch, and TURN IT UP! One of the best time capsule video and song mashups EVER!) Then, please come back and proceed: Those of you who are American history buffs know this best, but I’m … Continue reading
It’s been too long…
Wow, time flies when you realize that your last post was 60 days ago! Man, I gotta stop working. {Head held between hands as if trying to figure out a way to pay the bills otherwise.} So, I wrote a … Continue reading
Posted in Life in San Francisco, Politics, Writing
Tagged African-Americans, bad choices, black, change, college, cornbread, drugs, family, food, freakshow, guilt, jail, junkie, justice, Liberty Island, life, murder, organic, police brutality, prison, sadness, Tea Party, thanksgiving, tryptophan, turkey, work
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Rooms of One’s Own – a box in a box in a box
Life is a box. We live in one, we work in one, we drive in one, we stare at one, we type on one, we ship boxes in boxes to other destination boxes. I’ve been contemplating all of the boxes … Continue reading
Posted in Life in San Francisco, Writing
Tagged Anaheim, Apartments, Bay Area, Berkeley, Box, Boxes, Cal, Chapter, college, Durant Avenue, Episode, Friends, High School, Involved, Involvement, Junior High School, Living, Los Angeles, Mom, Moms, Rooms, San Diego, San Francisco, SoCal, UC Berkeley, worker, Worker bee
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The Frozen Middle
A young Latino male picks up his food to go and asks for a second helping of the taqueria’s much lauded salsa. “That will be 50-cents more, sir, ” says the cashier politely. (The serving is a tablespoon, in a … Continue reading
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Tagged active, Capitalism, college, Elizabeth Warren, Fritz Lang, frozen, government, knowledge, Lawrence Lessig, lie, Metropolis, Middle Class, oligarchy, poor, power, Robert Reich, urban, Workers
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