Posted on October 30, 2009 by Mary Grabar
What does my colleague, professor of performance studies at New York University, conclude? Writing in the ever-so-prestigious journal for members of the Modern Language Association, Richard Schechner concludes, “I cannot settle in my own mind the question of whether 9/11 in itself is art or can be more fully understood under the rubric of [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Very pertinent these days, considering what’s going with Fox News and efforts from the White House to control journalism. Read the review here
Jonathan Yardley – Behind the Iron Curtain – washingtonpost.com
Posted on October 28, 2009 by Mary Grabar
NPR analyst compares Obama to Nixon, issues full apology . . . Avoids gulag.
Perhaps, Bukharin…er, the NPR analyst was told that if he did not confess his refusal would be taken as “proof” that he was a “fascist hireling.”
How was this confession by government-supported radio reporter Ken Rudin extorted? Students, read Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler [...]
Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
SOCIALISM! As I was teaching “The Speech” last night it struck me that in 1964 Ronald Reagan was not afraid of using the S word. Yet, “conservative” (by Daily Kos standards) columnist Kathleen Parker, in a column likening Glenn Beck’s program to a “sideshow,” cited a count of the number of times Glenn Beck used [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
What does Arne Duncan mean? Would it be a revolution away from the revolution, instituted by the likes of Bill Ayers? That would be a good thing. But the speech will be made at Columbia Teachers College, Ayers’ alma mater, and the epicenter for training teachers in bringing about the (communist) revolution, as I’ve written [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Here is one professor weighing in in a forum called “Brainstorm” on the number one issue facing America today: race, specifically, racism in the form of one isolated Justice of the Peace refusing to marry an interracial couple….and Rush Limbaugh. The professor in typical humorless fashion ignores the origins of the “magic negro” comment, and [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
I had been working on this in-depth report for a while, and was glad to make my debut on Big Government.com with it. (They’re the folks who brought you the undercover videos of ACORN employees offering business tips to actors posing as pimp and prostitute.) Those interested in education might want to know that PETA [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
I will not let you go out to play when your room is so dirty, I will not tolerate you talking back to me, young man, …. oops, no, it’s not Daddy, but our Commander-in-Chief and his most-repeated phrase according to a study by the Associated Press. In one of our great institutions of higher [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Inside Higher Ed reports that such factors as test scores, grades, and class rank played a less significant role in college admissions in 2008 than they did in 2007. NACAC (National Association for College Admissions Counseling), an organization incapable (or unwilling to) of putting together a coherent report, as I concluded in my own articles [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Doesn’t sound like a book I’d recommend. This retired librarian of 32 years recommends this. Too much blood-letting and betrayal have led to cynicism. One of the comments in this post about goths displays a more profound understanding of the type of attitude such reading (and viewing) encourages. As I’ve written before, librarians have [...]
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