Month: February 2005

first, I read this If you’re too much of an impressionable idiot to watch “Sideways,” then don’t. thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sideways Now every idiot who has seen the movie has suddenly become a wine expert, and Pinot sales have shot through the roof. NPR interviewed a guy who said, and I quote: I used to drink merlot, and […]

Oblivio. Laws. oblivio.com/archives/04122101.html me. The Defects and Imperfections of my School b.yokim.net/145 news. Macalester College Trustees Approve Financial Aid Changes macalester.edu/whatshappening/press/2004/011105.html I’ve been afraid of actually implementing (or advising for) change, wherever I belonged. When I wrote the harsh (and well founded, to my immediate experiences at least) critique of high school education, my teachers […]

RE: Intellectual Diversity at Macalester. Joseph Schultz, Mac Weekly Feb 18 themacweekly.com/article.php?article=72 Good call, Mr. Schultz. Let’s promote “political diversity”, and you lay it out by splitting the entire 1,800 of the Macalester population into democrats and republicans. I’m not even talking about international spectrum of political ideas, I’m just saying, hey, what ever happened […]