Jim Cramer’s MAD MONEY: A Defense.
Jim Cramer, the host of the stock trading television show Mad Money on CNBC, has received a lot of unfair attacks during this economic crisis. I first started watching Mad Money a couple of years ago as a guilty pleasure. With Cramer’s myriad sound effects, turbo charged segments—like the famous “Lightning Round” in which callers [...]
Scam Lotteries. I’m Rich! I’m Rich! I’m Stinking Filthy Rich!
This morning I won 2,500,000 pounds sterling from the United Kingdom National Lottery! Five times! I have five separate reference numbers so that I can quickly claim each of my winnings in lump sums!
But wait. Last week I won 1,750,000 US Dollars from the Ugandan Scholastic Lottery. THREE times! And I have three separate reference [...]
Economy Tanking: Ominous Signs Spell Need For Hope.
The Economy is Tanking.
The economy is tanking. The signs are clear that our financial system, our manufacturing, our gross domestic product, and our consumer spending is on life support. Each time it seems that things cannot get worse, things get worse. Wall Street journalists have been using the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” [...]
The Most Famous Books I Never Read: the Ultimate Academic Game of Chicken.
In David Lodge’s brilliant and hilarious novel, Small World, a satire of the critical and theoretical mill in English
departments around the world in the 1970s, the English professors at one of the colleges in the narrative play a weekly, ultimate game of academic chicken. They go around the table, and each person has to confess [...]
Blogs and Blended Courses in Higher Education
For this upcoming spring semester, I have designed a blog to use in the context of the courses I teach. I am still tinkering with how exactly I am going to utilize the blog for my classes. My plan so far is to use the blog to post “informal” lectures, offer links to texts, sites, [...]
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Thursday, Mar 18
Fair
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Tonight: 37˚
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Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Friday, Mar 19
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