Archive for November, 2007

Dennis Kucinich and Tucker Carlson

Dennis Kucinich is always dismissed as being “out there,” a modern day Jerry Brown, but in this interview with Tucker Carlson about the impeachment of Dick Cheney, Kucinich is undeniably rational and level-headed. In the face of Carlson’s manic thuggish questioning, Kucinich is unflappable.

<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=bELc-kjLR_E">http://youtube.com/watch?v=bELc-kjLR_E</a>

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Making Wikipedia a Class Assignment

Slashdot has a post today about a professor who requires students to edit Wikipedia for a class assignment.

Come on, Slashdot, this is old, old news! My colleague Mills Kelly has had many Wikipedia assignment in the past several years, while over a year ago I had my 21st Century Literature Class do extensive edits on the House of Leaves Wikipedia entry. (And my assignment actually caused a bit of an old-fashioned flame war between my students and some of the self-appointed Wikipedia moderators.)

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