I’ve asked myself this question off and on since late 2005: Should I be a teacher? The most recent reason I ask myself this is an ad playing on KMOX about a new route to becoming a teacher in Missouri. It’s available through the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence. I could teach history at the high school level, though I would have to brush up on it a little.
(Cross-posted from the Neighbors Project blog)I’m moving out of my current apartment at the end of the month. When I go, the next people to live here will be paying literally almost twice as much as I currently pay in rent. My neighborhood — on the …
I invite you to ponder: Is a vegan who has an abortion in order to save the planet from its unborn child’s “carbon footprint” a hypocrite? I vote yes, this woman disagrees, but let’s see where we’re both coming from.
When handed a research task at work, many twenty-somethings will search the web before EVER digging through a hard-copy resource. There’s no joy, from our perspective, in wasted effort that culminates in the same information.
Tonight’s storm in Chicago:And, oh god…Tokyo is on Google Street Views…
In an ever-changing media landscape where newspaper’s are shrinking in size and climbing in cyber readership, one medium stays tried, tested and true– radio.
What would you think if a job that you were interested in asked you to work for free for at least six months to a year before even considering applying? And not only work for free, but also work abroad? Would you jump at the opportunity?
You can talk all you want about China at the core being a Communist country, or its recent embrace of capitalism, but deep down, beneath all of its layers, its posturing, its complexity, it’s very plain to see that China is being run by a Fascist regime.
I’m only left to wonder when good old fashioned lifestyle ambition became so unfashionable? Why can’t you just want what you want? Oh that’s right, we’re in a recession–wanting things is wrong.
Today I learned … the Big Apple became the first city in the country to implement a law forcing chain restaurants to post the calorie count of each food in the same size and font as the price.
