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Culture

I Voted. There, I Said It.

January 31, 2012

(Or, Don’t Hate Me Because I’m a Conservative) I voted in Palm Beach County today. For some of you, the needle may have already skidded across the metaphorical record. I’ve already seen the gears turning on the faces of my friends this week….. Voting… voting… there’s voting going on? OH! THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY! Then they [...]

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Dogs, Frat Boys, and Leadership

November 28, 2011

For anyone who knows me personally, it should come as no surprise that I spent a portion of my holiday weekend tucked in to the December/January ’12 issue of Garden and Gun magazine. This issue’s cover model is a very handsome black Labrador retriever named Deke, a hunting dog trained at the famous Wildrose Kennels [...]

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It’s About our Values, Stupid

November 16, 2011

I have had it. This conversation about the value of college has gone absolutely off the rails. I’m so ticked this morning I’m having trouble writing coherently. I guess this makes sense, because anger is rooted in fear, and I have finally become terrified for the future of education in the United States. I found [...]

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Realer than Likability

September 22, 2011

This summer I’ve been reading The Corrections by one of the great writers of our time, Jonathan Franzen, so I was particularly anxious to read an excerpt from his commencement address at Kenyon College this spring, which I found in The Week. I’ve been hanging on to the following thoughts of his for a while [...]

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The Artist Interviews: Ned Canty, Opera Director

May 10, 2011

Ned Canty is a stage director with credits from companies such as Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera and New York City Opera. The New York Times has described his stage direction as having “a startling combination of sensitivity and panache,” and Opera News said, “The future of [...]

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Teachers Cuffed by Culture

March 7, 2011

Students. Beyond Our Control. How many times have you heard the argument that merit pay for teachers is a terrible idea because “there are so many things that teachers can’t control”? People like to ground their argument for not paying teachers based on student outcome on this idea that there are so many contributors to [...]

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Facebook: Social Proof of What?

February 24, 2011

This week I was invited to be part of Jason Keith’s amazing Social Fresh Tampa 2011 conference. I was particularly excited to check it out because of the full day of Facebook training presented in conjunction with some big players on the social media field—and I know virtually nothing about Facebook for business. HubSpot sponsored [...]

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Excellence and Achievement: The NY Times Nails It

November 2, 2010

I would feel ridiculous even trying to add any insight to this brilliant piece by Anand Giridharadas in The New York Times. I would encourage everyone to examine the implications of the trend Giridharadas outlines of stressing achievement over excellence and fun over pleasure and the impact it has on our approach to education, the [...]

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Pop Culture and High Art: Part 1

August 20, 2010

…to be continued. ————- see also: My Brother’s Toasted Wrap: An Intro To Quality or Cultivate Your Connoisseurship

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Joel Salatin Shouldn’t Be Famous

August 14, 2010

Joel Salatin owns and runs Polyface Farms, a pristine organic farm in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. If you’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, you’ve read about him. If you’ve seen Food, Inc., you’ve seen him interviewed. Salatin and his family approach farming from a standpoint of environmentalism and stewardship, thereby producing extraordinary beef, turkey, chicken, [...]

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