Out loud:

nice bit of prose on reading out loud. I read all of my writing out loud at least once before it hits other people’s ears. It sounds different and otherwise when i read it out loud. I can tell where the differences between my thoughts and my ears are. What sounds like a thought vs what is a thought in my mind are different things, and i know this, because what is in my mind relies on much more than its audiality provides. so when i say something in writing that could be profound in something like 10 words, i usually come to realize that outside of my mental context is almost nonsensical.

this is why i ask my students to do the same out loud.

Deathbed Dollars:
During the weeks preceding Terri Schiavo’s death, a number of radical right wing Christian fundamentalist groups stepped up to take full advantage of what the Traditional Values Coalition’s (TVC) Rev. Lou Sheldon characterized as a “blessing…to the conservative Christian movement in America.” Established organizations like the TVC, relative newcomers like RightMarch.com, and newly formed coalitions, like Voice for Terri, had their Web sites sizzling with news of the case and extensive fundraising appeals.

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it is like none of these people have ever read anything that Jesus said, it is right there in the bible people. this is the shite that sends those that believe in such straight to heck. it is giving falsely, which in many places mentioned many times as ‘wrong’.

Mesa police want to add monkey to SWAT team:
The monkey weighs only three to eight pounds, has tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills. Police say it would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go and could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command.

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cool.