THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR THIS BULL SHIT TROPE…
0639 by Jeff HessVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
25 September 2011
25 September 2011
A JUXTAPOSTION WORTH CONTEMPLATING…
0542 by Jeff HessTwo stories appear on Metafilter this morning. The first is about little girls and superheroes. The second is about little girls and Disney princesses. Which do you think is better? Is there room for both? Neither? Discuss.
25 September 2011
23 September 2011
23 September 2011
ELIZABETH WARREN RESPONDS LIKE AN EDUCATOR…
0915 by Jeff HessVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Via Mano Singham…
23 September 2011
22 September 2011
22 September 2011
OF COURSE THEY PICKED LAWRENCE BLOCK…
0512 by Jeff Hess21 September 2011
21 September 2011
WE’RE ALL SORT OF IN THE MIDDLE…
2102 by Jeff HessI wish people would see that it is all O.K. Why is their so much conflict, war and hate, when we are all so different, which means we are all just the same. All just people. Not right or wrong or good or bad. Not normal or not normal. Just here, breathing, and we all bleed the same. I believe, this is the key to peace. Acceptance. I’m starting with self-acceptance. Have decided Im pretty average, when you consider the normalness scale, which is pretty much just a dot, rather than a line, by the way. I’m sort of in the middlle, right next to you
So Why am I the Patient?
Its a brain teaser I tell you. But honestly, jus start accepting people for who they are and what they are, accept that there isnt a person alive who hasnt made mistakes, be open minded and never ever assume that you are better than someone else. We are all equal, or at least we should be. This, my friends, is the key to global harmony. Now all i need is for 6 billion members of the world to read this and adopt this attitude, and Bob’s you’re Uncle we have World Peace. Job Done. Oh, and to apply this acceptance to myself, as Im really quite a hypocrite.
And just out of interest, does anyone actuall yhave an Uncle called Bob?Peace
21 September 2011
LAURA WRITES IN LAURA’S LOCKET…
1947 by Jeff HessI have no idea why Laura decided to start following me on Twitter (LauraKCallaway), but I’m glad she did because I’m having an amazing time reading her blog In Laura’s Locket, The Comical Ramblings of an Accidental Cat-Lady, The diary of me, The journey of a Girl on a Mission to be Free. Start with her 16 March 2010 post, I Am.
Laura, or Lau Lau as she seems to refer to herself, lives in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom. She writes:
I’m Laura. I’m 20. I am a Taurus. I am an Artist. I love dogs. I have 2 Cats. I am Unique, like everyone Else! I am Confused. I like to write. I can’t always spell. I have a spell-checker. I have a Thesaurus. I am Writing a Blog.
I honestly don’t remember the last time I recommended a blog.
Go read.
Marvel.
21 September 2011
21 September 2011
21 September 2011
I AGREE: PRESIDENT OBAMA IS PLAYING US…
0550 by Jeff Hess[Tax increases on the rich] are not going to pass. Period. Obama is doing this so he can look like a liberal, because he knows it won’t pass. If he wanted this sort of policy, he needed to do it in his first few months. He didn’t and he doesn’t, this is re-election positioning. If you are treating it as anything else, you are being played.
Oh, and while I approve of the “Wall Street Occupation” it isn’t going to do a damn thing unless it costs Wall Street large amounts of money. Which would require different tactics than are being used. Still, it’s a start.
20 September 2011
20 September 2011
THE SUPERNATURAL IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD…
0520 by Jeff HessIf an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won’t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and a feeling of religious certainty), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often the hearing of voices that are attributed to gawds. Some fraction of history’s prophets, martyrs and leaders appear to have had temporal epilepsy. p. 207
Incognito: The Secret Lives Of The Brain by David Eagleman
Found in my electronic chapbook.
19 September 2011
18 September 2011
18 September 2011
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A JOURNALISM DEGREE…?
0807 by Jeff HessWhen pressed to answer that question, my answer is: not a whole lot.
Why? Because I think that any writer/reporter can learn everything they need to learn that can be taught by any method other than doing the job can be accomplished in about two weeks by a good editor. I’m not knocking my college years, I learned a great deal there, but I learned very little about Journalism. My advice to aspiring journalists would be study anything but Journalism in college and while you’re there, seek out every opportunity you can to write.
My advice, however, does not address a deeper matter discussed by Alyssa Lenhoff and Tim Francisco in The Costs of Becoming a Journalist.
The National Union of Journalists told the panel compiling the report that a 2002 Journalism Training Forum poll showed that fewer than 10 per cent of new journalists came from a working-class background and only three per cent came from homes headed by semi-skilled or unskilled workers.
One of the many troubling findings of the report, and the one most readily applicable to the profession here in the US, is that a prerequisite for entrance into a career in journalism is at least one internship experience, and that many, if not most, are unpaid. A cursory glance at available internships here in the US reveals that of 50 intern opportunities listed on journalismjobs.com, only 15 offer pay. Of the 50 internships posted, another 15 offer no pay but college credit, which at many universities, ours included, means that doing an internship actually costs a student tuition money. Here at YSU, students can earn six hours maximum for internships, but at many universities, 12 to 16 are allowed, paving the way for students to spend several thousand dollars (at least) to get an entire academic semester of work experience.
For an interesting bit of real-world advice, check out Lynn Johnston’s experience.
