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Having resigned from the job [and just in time--I found out they laid off 4 editors last week], I spent the past few weeks trying to finish up the semester successfully. Wrote another paper, gave a presentation, graded my online students. Then the real fun began: a 5 day trip to Minnesota! I have to [...]

Took too much time to upload pics from my day in NOLA. This is one of my favorites. A couple more to follow.

After writing a paper on the rhetoric of truth in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in which I compared the responses/emails of FEMA’s former director, Michael Brown, to the blog posts written by New Orleanians over at Metroblogging, the sources keep a’coming. Here is an article detailing the reaction to Rush Limbaugh’s first broadcast back [...]

tee OK I guess everyone knew about this already. And here I thought it was a clever t-shirt slogan I saw while in NOLA… Anyway, go here for one that gives its proceeds to displaced artists and musicians of New Orleans.

There is a lot to update everyone on but the most significant is that I no longer have a full-time job! My last day was Friday and it’s already been such a relief to have the free time today during the day to clean, organize “last week of the semester” papers and catch up on [...]