The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Author: mongreldogs

  • The (non) Importance of Caring

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    A former student of mine at some point had a facebook status that read, Why should I study something I don’t care about?  Why should teachers teach something they don’t care about? Actually, to be 100% accurate, the student’s status said that this was in someone else‘s status.  But still… “Why should I study something…

  • Week 9 in the program

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    The truly observant will notice that somehow I skipped from Week 7 to Week 9. I’m not a time traveler… I had miscounted earlier. *sigh* Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 318.8 | -6.6 | -49.6 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 120 | 70 I fell just…

  • 25 Things

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    There is a viral meme going around Facebook about listing 25 random things about yourself. It’s not accurate, since people spend some time crafting the 25 things (so they’re not really random … it’s not like people write 500 things and do a Monte Carlo selection or anything). Anyone, I got tagged by Annie and…

  • Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End

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    This is another in my intermittent series of posting things I’d written long before, so that they’re out there on the Net. I wrote this one quite some time ago, back when I was in the Bard Writing Workshop that Hun runs. I wrote most of it after taking a quick walk on a brisk…

  • Week 7 on HMR

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 325.4 | -5.8 | -43.0 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 120 | 80 I had a pretty good week, losing almost six pounds. It’s not quite a record but I’ll take it. 🙂 My blood pressure has clearly settled down to…

  • Week 6 on HMR

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 331.2 | -4.2 | -37.2 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 110 | 84 It would seem I’ve hit my steady state in the program. Weight loss is bumping around 5 lbs weekly, which is more than satisfactory. My blood pressure also…

  • Health of the Republic: Reset to 50%

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    It’s been a while since I’ve updated this ticker.  And it remains completely arbitrary, of course.  But with a new administration taking hold of the reins, it’s time for some (cautious) optimism about the restoration of the Republic.  I have genuine high hopes for Barack Obama and his people.  I think this is a smart,…

  • Worst. President. EVER.

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    I know it’s early to ring in with the verdict of history and I know there’s room for reasonable debate. But I feel pretty sure that this will indeed be the epitaph of George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the United States (to our everlasting chagrin and shame). Hopefully the crimes committed by he and…

  • Really interesting MLK clip

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    Apparently, someone at the BBC unearthed this snippet of an interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he is asked about RFK’s 1964 prediction of a Negro President within 40 years.  King says he wouldn’t be amazed if it came sooner.  (Interesting that RFK was right within 4 years… not a bad piece…

  • America the Beautiful

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    A stirring rendition, courtesy of Beyoncé at HBO’s “We Are One” Inauguration Concert.