Musings from McWeizee
scoutzen
- Location
- Boise, Idaho,
- Birthday
- May 27
- Bio
- I teach, therefore I am. I write, therefore I think (not to mention that it makes me feel less hypocritical teaching others how to write.....just editing all the time got old.)
I am bicoastal in origin.
I now live in the blue dot known as Boise in the red state known as Idaho.
I fancy myself a radical centrist (albeit left leaning) in a polarized nation. I really just want everyone to get along, and sometimes this compromises my ability to know what I really think......which gives me another reason to write.
I am an American of Irish, German, and English decent. I have twin half brothers of Native American decent who I've never met. I hope someday that may change, though it doesn't seem likely.
Despite the fact that I can be way too serious, or because of it, I love to laugh.
Sometimes, I even make other people laugh.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Why the Civil Rights Era Is a
NATIONAL Treasure
February 03, 2012 10:20PM - Look What's Occupying our
Strip Malls this Season
October 06, 2011 05:17PM - On Mary Richards and Teaching
as a Women's Movement
August 07, 2011 04:56PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “OK....This is only the
second blog from you I've
read, but
now there's no
questio…”
October 05, 2011 11:16PM - “From a fellow "Jesuit
trained" educator....The best
part of
your
class…”
October 02, 2011 11:20PM - “You have a way of
acknowledging the grey area's
between the
black and white of
m…”
September 13, 2011 12:23AM - “Have rarely seen a
bumper sticker I liked.”
August 12, 2011 02:09AM - “Ryan,
I am a
45-year-old white chick. I
watched the film,
Mississippi
Burning
in…”
August 12, 2011 01:18AM
Scoutzen's Links
Why the Civil Rights Era Is a NATIONAL Treasure
George Bush once told us that he wanted to be a "uniter, not a divider." It's obvious that Barack Obama wants to be the same in a culture whose divisions have reached fever pitch. If a president can't unite us, maybe role models from our history can.
A television ad
… Read full post »Look What's Occupying our Strip Malls this Season
Safari informs me that self-made man and American icon Steve Jobs is dead. As my throat and ears throb with the first viral scratchings of the season, my eight-year-old son watches Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’ for the quillienth time. I like this film.… Read full post »
About 10 years ago the age of 35, I realized that I had become a teacher in spite of myself, and although I had already been doing the job for ten years, I finally and wholeheartedly committed to the calling.
How such paradoxes are possible has something to do with… Read full post »
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Updates
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Memorial Day in Washington, D.C.
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Why “Income Inequality” is a losing issue and how to fix it
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Mourning & Mathematics...with Albert on the side
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Too Close To Home
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Non-Moms: The New "It Girls"
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Announcing the Salon-Alternet Investigative Fund
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The "Choice" Myth of Human Sexuality
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Mother Russia Wears a Miniskirt
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