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That's one, no, that's two for you, Michelle Malkin

A while back someone on The Well chastised me for listing Michelle Malkin on my blogroll. He was even more incensed that Malkin was listed first. He said that was like placing the her "above the fold."

I responded that I read Malkin out of a perverse sense of duty - after all, I strongly disagree with her rants about 90 percent of the time.

Today's rant touched a nerve. Now, just because my nerves are touched doesn't mean that we ought to go and bomb hell out of Iran, no matter what the pretext. If we did bomb Iran, wouldn't we be killing some, or many, of those very same victims of that country's insane societal policies?

So, Michelle, I thank you for the eye-opener. And I agree with you that the mass media does need, in fact, is obligated to publish these photos. Let the world's condemnation help stop the madness in Iran.

Update - The honeymoon's over, Michelle. Already?

MM decides to blast MM (interesting, that) over the film "Sicko." What's the best she can do?

Just launched (A message from Tim Smith of Spark PR)

"Wanted to let you know about a new company that is launching tomorrow that mixes the technological with the educational. Education.com is unveiling a comprehensive, one-stop online destination that helps parents play a more active role in their children’s educational success."

Looks promising, Tim. Best of luck!

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Teacher Helpers (courtesy Pete MacKey of The Teacher List)

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I will chew your face off, Sara, and spit it on the street. Barking up the wrong tree

everything old is new again

But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, “I should sit here and I should be entertained.” And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know, who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That’s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It’s an old moral, but it’s completely true.

- Zadie Smith