controversial subjects

Controversial subject matter

OK here's the question. As most who know me know; I post and respond to volatile subjects. I'm curious. Do you beat the dead horse until you are exhausted? Or do you give up early on and admit defeat...

Are people afraid to disagree on mylot?

It seems to me that if you post a "touchy" subject on here, that you may not get alot of responses to it. Do you think that people are just here to make friends. I have no problem making friends, but...

Ruby Yang Tackles Controversial Subjects: With China's Support

Filed under: Foreign Language, Shorts, PoliticsWe're always letting you know about the latest battle between Chinese filmmakers and Chinese censors. The most recent kerfuffle was earlier this month,...

You know what? It's a good thing that Shakespeare never went to college. (Part 2)

Let's face it: many of Shakespeare's works are very disturbing and violent: Macbeth dabbles in witchcraft and gets beheaded, Hamlet contemplates suicide, Coriolanus is burned alive, and in Titus...

Poor teaching!= indoctrination

The response to the AAUP's statement Freedom in the Classroom (released September 11) has been fascinating, from Peter Wood and Stephen Balch's tendentious attempt to fisk the report (thereby...

E-Ran and E-Raq. NEW BATTLEGROUNDS YAY!

I don't know if anyone's thought of this (http://www.kumawar.com) terrible, terrible idea before, but a software company has decided to take a laughably terrible fps engine and make poorly concieved...

Interview With Lloyd Dangle, Author of Troubletown

One of the great parts about interviewing authors is I'm constantly having to re-examine stereotypes and perceptions. For instance, I never really thought about cartoon books as an avenue for...

At Book Slut, an Anthropologist on Framing Science

In her book Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, William & Mary anthropology professor Barbara J. King argues that religion is not so much a cognitively-derived belief system...

Professor re-enacts Virginia Tech killings in classroom.

Winset raises his marker and aims at a student. "Bang," he says and then moves on, directing the marker and subsequent sound effect at another student. "Bang." And another;...

Tagged, Blogging and Being Original

Via Angie Pedersen’s ScrapbookMarketing.com, where I was tagged, and a link back to the original inspiration for this blog project - Mohit Singhania’s blog project called, “Be...

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims...

Recently, I posted a question regarding a Creationist belief and whether or not such a belief should interfere with certain knowledges. Specifically, the blog was about whether or not the officials...

Evidence That Political Correctness Makes You Stupid

This from Right Wing News?The general theory here seems to be that it’s better that children be kept ignorant than risk offending someone, “Schools are dropping controversial subjects...