Michel Petrucciani's "Looking Up"

Elite Exceptionalism, Cont.

Glenn Greenwald comments on Obama's continuing efforts to ignore or hide evidence of Bush-era crimes:

This is just another manifestation of the generalized Beltway religion that we should suppress and ignore the heinous acts our government committed and to which we acquiesced, because if we just agree to forget about all of it, then we can blissfully pretend that it never happened and avoid doing anything about it.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/14

And Andrew Sullivan comments on the MSN's (self-serving) inclination to parse all moral/legal arguments as merely political:

The MSM cannot see the question of torture and violation of the Geneva Conventions as a matter of right and wrong, of law and lawlessness. They see it as a matter of right and left. And so an attempt to hold Bush administration officials accountable for the war crimes they proudly admit to committing is 'left-wing.'

Spring, 2009 Blog Lists Removed

I have removed from my blog all links to spring, 2009 student bloggers. Anyone who plans to continue blogging (in any capacity) and would like to have his/her name added to my "other bloggers" list should let me know ASAP.

(AP-Honors & PM & LII) Final Deadlines

Monday, May 4 marks the final deadline for (1) final drafts of multi-stage persuasive essays, (2) course-based blogging, and (3) book reviews.

(AP-Honors & PM): Presentations of book reviews during classes Monday.

I will not accept/grade any essays/blog entries/reviews received after Monday's deadline. There will be no exceptions (outside of official reasons as identified in the student handbook).

I will assess essays according to my original guidelines (see Handout B) and assess blogging in the same fashion as the midterm assessment.