Call It A Comeback
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Just wait until they get to the series if you think I’m annoying now.
BTW, three Cubs blogs for the playoffs that are on my expanded blog roll
The Clark & Addison Chronicle
The Cub Reporter
The [Untitled] Cubs Page
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Just wait—if they get to the series if you think I’m annoying now.
BTW, three Cubs blogs for the playoffs that are on my expanded blog roll
The Clark & Addison Chronicle
The Cub Reporter
The [Untitled] Cubs Page
Scoobie listens to those I can’t handle
Come on. Do you think this bunch [the supposed Clinton cabal] is actually getting behind him [Clark] to promote him for the sake of making him a winner? Hardly, my good–If Wesley Clark doesn’t look out, I mean, his family is going to be looking for him in Fort Marcy Park before it’s too long. You don’t sit out there and paint the Cliinton adminstration as clueless on world affairs and have these people become your best friends.
This is a reference to Vince Foster’s suicide.
Has a rather excellent take on Rush’s take on Donavan McNabb. Really, it is sort of bizarre.
But more importantly, Lane and Tina have great taste in television shows. For those with HBO, make sure to check out the replay of the first season of The Wire. It is some of the best work on television. In addition, the book the Corner is written by Simon and is a very good read (and a decent mini-series).
It seems like only a couple days ago that I explained to Eric Zorn why I blog pseudonymously. That’s because it was only a couple days ago. I often wonder if I’m a bit too paranoid, but given I post a lot on local issues in St. Louis and some of those posts are somewhat controversial it allows me to avoid uncomfortable situations. I wasn’t quite sure what might happen, but one of the issues was harassing calls or behavior. And I’m not convinced that being uncomfortable is enough of an excuse. Declaring what you believe might often be uncomfortable. I have a family and while I am certainly willing to accept accountability for what I write, the nuiscance of being known could be a problem. I believe the post on being cursed makes the point.
I’m not sure if I’ll remain pseudonymous for a lot of the initial reasons why I did aren’t really relevant anymore. On the other hand, Rochell Moore has asked her supporters to protect her with weapons.
I actually agree with Eric Zorn’s assesment today on pseudonymous writing,
A one-name newspaper byline, "Garbo," on a Tempo commentary "Will `Lesbian Eye’ be next? It’s unlikely anytime soon."
A one-name byline is automatically pseudonymous in our culture–a handful of celebrities excepted–though one-name and pseudonymous (and anonymous) writings go way back and include "Publius," the name under which Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers.
The practice has been rare in American letters and journalism over the last century or so, but I wonder if the internet culture isn’t giving it a big boost.
My 13-year-old son and his friends all IM each other using elaborate names for themselves even though in some cases they could use their own names or simple versions thereof; I’d guess that about half of the web logs and 80 percent of the message board postings I’ve looked at are written anonymously or pseudonymously, the ethic being that it doesn’t matter who you are, but what you say.
My feeling, as one whose name is always attached to his words, is that accountability is an important promoter of responsibility and accuracy. And who you are does matter to the reader. On the other hand, it would be nice to have a dashing nickname for an alter ego:
But at least for the near future, I’m going to remain pseudonymous. I always hope to make up for the disadvantage of being pseudonymous by trying hard to be honest and get the facts straight–especially when I am reporting. And I always try and make factual corrections obvious. In fact, I’ll dispute Rochell Moore’s claim that I got the story wrong–she did assert that Amy Hilgemann put cocaine in her coffee at the Board Meeting. Maybe Moore meant that Hilgemann helped plan it, but that is what I heard Moore say. I’m not sure that either claim makes Moore’s conspiracy theory any more reasonable. Actually, I am sure, it doesn’t make her conspiracy theory reasonable.
Then again, the way the curse situation could play out, I could be outed soon anyway. Many in St. Louis have already guessed my identity so it wouldn’t be a huge change, just an inconvenience in some instances.
I may need to check my spam folder, Glenn Brown passes on Obama’s letter to supporters. And don’t forget Howard Dean is shooting for $15,000,000 total tonight by midnight EST
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While most of you who read the Illinois and General side of the blog don’t get exposed to my writing on the Saint Louis Public Schools at Blog Saint Louis, it is a significant portion of my blogging.
One post in particular has drawn the attention of Rochell Moore, a Saint Louis Public School Board Member. A post on Political State Report reported on efforts to reform the Saint Louis public Schools. That post included very critical remarks about Ms. Moore. It appears that she has reponded in comments
This article is most slanderous and malicious in it’s intent. You are not a medical doctor nor are you licensed to give an opinion on someone’s health. It was Charlene Jones who placed cocaine in my coffee on October 21, 2003. She came to the hospital and told them I was paranoid and delusional. I have the records to prove it.
If you are going to tell the story, tell it correctly. Please refrain from referring to me as mentally ill. Because of your writings and tone, you too can be added to the letter sent to Francis Slay
An electronic version of the letter is available at the Arch City Chronicle.
"The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto Francis Slay and anyone who helps him, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it," she writes, modifying a passage found in Deuteronomy 28:21. "The Lord shall smite Francis Slay and anyone who helps him with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew; and the angel of the Lord shall pursue Francis Slay until he perishes."
So I’m on mildew watch.
Did I mention, Cubs Win! The Bears certainly aren’t going to. I don’t mind losing 10-7. I do mind losing 37-10.
Via Haas, Via Bill Purdy, comes Matt Miller’s Atlantic Monthly piece, A New Deal For Teachers . Miller proposes a plan to improve teacher pay in poor districts,
If the quality of urban schools is to be improved, teaching poor children must become the career of choice for talented young Americans who want to make a difference with their lives and earn a good living too. To achieve that the federal government should raise the salary of every teacher in a poor school by at least 50 percent. But this increase would be contingent on two fundamental reforms: teachers’ unions would have to abandon the lockstep pay schedules, so that the top-performing half of the teacher corps could be paid significantly more; and the dismissal process for poor-performing teachers would have to be condensed to four to six months.
I can’t argue with the proposal, but there is another problem no one wants to address which is how urban districts hire teachers. (free registration required)
Urban school districts are losing out on the best teachers because they are mired in layers of policy and practice that postpone hiring until after most of the best applicants have accepted jobs in suburban systems, a report released here last week contends.
The study by the New Teacher Project challenges the perception that city school systems are strapped for teachers because too few people want to teach in high-poverty schools. On the contrary, the authors found that with good recruiting strategies, urban districts can draw five or more applicants for every opening.
You have to have a functioning human resources department that puts a premium on hiring high quality teachers.
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