NPR:
“Detainee Legislation Driven by Court Decision
Host Liane Hansen speaks to Walter Dellinger about the reasons behind the debate over detainee legislation, specifically the June 2006 Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Dellinger served as Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Clinton administration.”
Also tells you what’s in the Terrorism Detainee Bill.
Work In Progress
This is a sketch for a painting and/or oil pastel piece that I’m planning. It is also what I’m turning in for a school project… I got the idea because as assignments in my American Literature/Composition ADV class, we had to:
1. Read Bush’s latest State of the Union
2. Make our own State of the Union report, which should reflect our opinions on our country’s current state, in any creative medium.
What is this a drawing of?
–It’s of Lady Liberty being strangled with oil pipeline (which has the names of several major oil companies written on it).
Why is this picture smaller than most of the other ones you post?
–Because it’s a WIP… you’ll get to see a larger version once I’m done. ^_~ BTW, I’m not sure if you can tell, since the picture is so small, but the torch is about to fall from her hand in this picture.
Best viewed large!!
So, I went to Dragon*Con this year, and as usual, it was awesome. This time I volunteered in the gaming panel area.
Photo: It was neat getting to meet Richard Hatch (the original Captain Apollo, now Tom Zarek, from Battlestar Galactica). He was very nice, too.
(I just posted this to the Academy Caritas blog, but I figured that I’d share it here too.)
An awesome article by Seed magazine (my current favorite magazine!) about learning by doing. Apparently that’s how we learn best. When we learn by doing, we retain the information we’ve learned much better than if it’s presented to us in an abstract way.
How We Know: What do an algebra teacher, Toyota and a classical musician have in common?
This is one of my favorite podcasts. I’ve been listening to it quite a bit lately, and catching up on some older poems in it, too.
So far these two poems from it are my favorites:
I definately recommend this podcast… so go check it out!
