1 hour ago by Jon

The following are REAL answers received on exams given by the California Department of Transportation’s driving school (that is, Saturday Traffic School for moving violation offenders.) 1. Do you yield when a blind pedestrian is crossing the road? What for? He can’t see my license plate. 2. Who has ...

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2 hours ago by Kim

So, we watched NEW MOON last night/early this morning, and I have to say that I really liked it. The movie was good, even if the makeup and hair were not an improvement from last time AT ALL. Speaking of TWILIGHT, have you seen this? It's a mashup of TWILIGHT and BUFFY in which the true creepiness o ...

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2 hours ago by girlgriot

After the surprise of seeing photos of the matriarchs in my family, my students stumbled over what those photos were saying to them. We had, you’ll remember, just been talking about the “shock” of discovering that Michelle Obama has a white person (at least one) in her family tree. That was, of cour ...

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2 hours ago by Craig L

So far this week. 1)Bitched at: personally, privately and publicly. 2)Dumped, then un-dumped (Yay for it working out, Boo for having to go through that) 3)Divorce looming 4)Got sick 5)Failed and left notes at home 6)Lost Drivers License somewhere between DC, Detroit and Moline, IL 7)Still sick 8)Hav ...

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4 hours ago by Administrator

But seriously, it’s super easy except for the bus ride there. Quentin and I were invited to be judges in an English speaking competition. The kids were from all over the city and they all went to the competition with the same topic: Western Holidays in Chinese Culture. Here’s some trees on the way t ...

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4 hours ago by flexiture

Speaking and understanding social language is another key aspect of fitting in socially. Many youngsters have trouble using the right words in the right way. When they talk, they don’t sound very “cool” to the other kids. Often because they don’t recognize social feedback, they don’t realize that th ...

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4 hours ago by Margaret

New Twitter # Hashtag Alert! Every Wednesday – starting THIS Wednesday 11.25.09 – will be Words of Wisdom Wednesday #WOWW. Think #followfriday or #musicmonday. Now there’s #WOWW. The point of #wordsofwisdomwed is to tweet parental nuggets of wisdom that you would want to pass along to your kids. Thi ...

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5 hours ago by Ben Myers

As mentioned in an earlier post, this semester I taught an undergraduate course on the Holy Spirit. There were some requests to post my reading list – so here it is. I've listed each of the weekly topics, together with the set readings. Each class also included a brief reading/discussion of a poem – ...

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5 hours ago by Ken Adams

In my recent blog post about how BigLaw associates have thus far been immune to the charms of my West seminars (click here), I offered some reasons as to why that might be the case. But I omitted one possible reason—that learning how to draft contracts ranks low one’s list of priorities. My thanks t ...

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5 hours ago by americaninchengdu

Over the last few class sessions I showed the Michael Moore movie Sicko to the spoken English class of doctors. They seem fascinated with the American health system, so I thought they might like it; on the other hand, I worried it would be beyond their English comprehension abilities. So I played it ...

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