"When House Republicans originally argued for a food stamp cut of between $20.5 billion and $39 billion, the White House threatened to veto both of those proposals. During his Friday speech, the president did not say whether he was satisfied with the final $8.7 billion figure, or even mention the cuts at all. Instead, he praised the food stamp program and said that the final Farm Bill preserved much-needed benefits."

Linked Article

Exclamation point?!!! Really? New York Review of Books! Exclamations!!! ?

My favorite place!

I love our!

Oh! She's my favorite person at Lander!

Bio at Stanford

Thesis statement

The Joker is Neil Young

Hey, is this confusing to everyone else to? It seems important, but . . . help?!

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"Note to Recruiting: Hire the C Students"

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History of the band

Justified True Belief

This is why all the White Supremacist masquerading as protesters violenc shit that happened during the riots matters so much and needs to be put out there.

1) DUI Deaths in 2019 USA = 10,142. Covid Deaths in 2020= 400,000

I'd rather have drunk drivers than unvaccinated / non-N-95 wearing jackasses anyday.

2) What kind of horrible person calls 911 to report a stranded supposed motorist, who is not driving, btw, and doesn't offer to help?

Yes, that's straight up Milton.

Oh, ffs. Norm was clearly being tongue-in-cheek here.

This is remarkable lazy writing. Norm himself has said that the jokes came from a book of jokes from his Dad. And here's Saget's take:

When I got roasted [on Comedy Central], I talked to him a week before the Roast and he called me and he said, ‘Uh, Saget, I can’t say mean things about you, you’re my friend. I don’t even want to do it, but I’m going to do it because it’s you.' ... We’d gone through so much together, ups and downs. So at the roast, he called me a week out and said, ‘I’m just gonna read jokes from a '40s joke book,’ and I said, ‘Norm, that’s fine. I mean, you know what you’re doing, but you gotta curse.’ ‘I don’t want to do that.’ I said, ‘Well just throw in an arbitrary ‘fuck’ now and then.’ ‘Nah, I’m not going to do that.’

When a so-called "storyteller" considers herself a "consumer," well, that's no storyteller I'm interested in.

Frederic Jameson catches up with his Science Fiction and Other Utopias

This is totally Against the Day.

Albertus Magnus[a] OP (c. 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne, was a German Catholic Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop. Later canonised as a Catholic saint, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus and, late in his life, the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name.[6] Scholars such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages.[7] The Catholic Church distinguishes him as one of the 36 Doctors of the Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Magnus

Paracelsus (/ˌpærəˈsɛlsəs/; c. 1493[1] – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim[10][11]), was a Swiss[12] physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.[13][14]

He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is credited as the "father of toxicology".[15] Paracelsus also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his "Prognostications" being studied by Rosicrucians in the 1600s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

As the Liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Will die fighting, or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!

When the web that we weave is complete, And the shuttle exchanged for the sword, We will fling the winding-sheet O'er the despot at our feet, And dye it deep in the gore he has pour'd.

Though black as his heart its hue, Since his veins are corrupted to mud, Yet this is the dew Which the tree shall renew Of Liberty, planted by Ludd!

At the time when Lee invented the Stocking Frame he was officiating as curate of Calverton, near Nottingham; and it is alleged by some writers that the invention had its origin in disappointed affection. The curate is said to have fallen deeply in love with a young lady of the village, who failed to reciprocate his affections; and when he visited her, she was accustomed to pay much more attention to the process of knitting stockings and instructing her pupils in the art, than to the addresses of her admirer. This slight is said to have created in his mind such an aversion to knitting by hand, that he formed the determination to invent a machine that should supersede it and render it a gainless employment. For three years he devoted himself to the prosecution of the invention, sacrificing everything to his new idea. At the prospect of success opened before him, he abandoned his curacy, and devoted himself to the art of stocking making by machinery. This is the version of the story given by Henson

https://www.victorianweb.org/technology/inventors/lee.html

The Frame Work Bill was introduced to Parliament on 14 February 1812 by the Home Secretary Richard Ryder, acting in concert with Spencer Perceval (who was at that time both Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister), the Attorney General Sir Vicary Gibbs, the Solicitor General Sir Thomas Plomer, and three Nottinghamshire MPs concerned about the Luddite Movement taking hold in their constituencies. Rushed through as an "emergency measure", the Act was passed with an overwhelming majority and received royal assent on 20 March, despite opposition.[1] Fundamentally, there was agreement between members of the government and the opposition that the measure was a last resort; but where supporters believed that all other avenues had been exhausted, opponents (seeing relative tranquillity over the winter period) did not.[1] The newly created Lord Byron used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to oppose the bill.[2]

The Act, as passed, made the destruction of mechanised looms – stocking frames – a capital felony (and hence a crime punishable by death).[3][1] Similarly raised to the level of capital felony were the associated crimes of damaging frames and entering a property with intent to damage a frame. In these respects the act was a stronger version of the Protection of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1788, which had made similar acts punishable by 7–14 years in a penal colony. All measures included in the Act were only to be applied temporarily, and were duly set to expire on 1 March 1814.

Significance

Although approximately 60 to 70 Luddites were hanged in the period that the statute was in force, no death sentences seem to have been justified on its grounds, with judges preferring to use existing legislation. Due to come to an end on 1 March, the Act was officially repealed in 1814 with the passage of the Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1813, which instituted a new maximum penalty for the destruction of stocking frames of life transportation; in 1817, that Act would itself be repealed and the death penalty once again reinstated in the Destroying Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1817. By that time, however, Luddism had largely subsided as a movement.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Stocking_Frames,_etc._Act_1812)

The stuff he's getting at in Against the Day.

How to leverage a term pejoratively to reduce an entire counter argument to silliness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH FBA (/ˈtɔɪnbi/; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was a British historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London. From 1918 to 1950, Toynbee was considered a leading specialist on international affairs.[6]

He is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961). With his prodigious output of papers, articles, speeches and presentations, and numerous books translated into many languages, Toynbee was a widely read and discussed scholar in the 1940s and 1950s. By the 1960s his magnum opus had fallen out of favour among mainstream historians, due to recognition that Toynbee favoured myths, allegories and religion over factual data.

The cadence here reminds me of Donne's "XIV. MEDITATION":

If we consider Eternity, into that, Tyme never entred; Eternity is not an everlasting flux of Tyme; but Tyme is a short parenthesis in a longe period; and Eternity had been the same, as it is, though time had never beene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lud

Oliver Stone's Wall Street):

And this was before the ubiquity of the Internet.

For example, "THE TWO CULTURES AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION," in Nature

The Rede Lecture revisited this conversation in 2010: Onora O'Neill, "The Two Cultures Fifty Years On."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede_Lecture

The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge.[1] It is named for Sir Robert Rede, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.

The initial series of lectures ranges from around 1668 to around 1856. In principle, there were three lectureships each year, on Logic, Philosophy and Rhetoric. These differed from the later individual lectures, in that they were appointments to a lectureship for a period of time, rather than an appointment for a one-off annual lecture. There was also a Mathematics lectureship which dated from an earlier time, while another term used was "Barnaby Lecturer", as the lecturers were elected on St Barnabas Day. A selection of the lecturers, who tended to have studied at Cambridge and be appointed after becoming Fellows of a College, is given below, with a full listing given in the sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._Snow

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What is it about the sentences's form/ structure that makes it work?

Great job creating your Blog!

Analysis? What strikes you about the sentence's form?

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Another annotation

Testing

Link to book might be interesting for us, your audience?

Like your discussion above with impulsivity. Is regret something we can quantify or predict? What if, for example, we chose to do something because we beleive we'd regret it if we didn't, but then got infected with COVID and spread it to family who got really ill or even died? That's endlessly rhetorical nature of life, huh?!

I've not heard it codified like that before.

Because

Would make for a good essay: "Most people think impulsivity is bad; however, it's worked for me."

Do you think it's a universal thing one way or another? Or can it only be judged retrosptectively?

This is the "Fetish."

such a 90s term.

Meaning as choice. Interpretation is up to us. Like Milton's Satan: "The Mind can make a Heaven of Hell or a Hell of Heaven."

January 6th?!

What? How did Portland become "Antifa protests"? This is absurd.

The course concept acts as your Method source . . .

This is the key stuff; the Exigence; the "they say." It really helps to sell your audience. This is, in essence, the hook, if you will.

So pathetic that RS now propagates fascism for cash.

Stanley Fish raises a useful point here:

You’re not going to be able to change the world if you are not equipped with the tools that speak to its present condition. You don’t strike a blow against a power structure by making yourself vulnerable to its prejudices. Even as an exercise in political strategy, “having conversations with students about linguistic systems and democratic values” (V.F. Kinloch, “Revisiting the Promise of Students’ Right to Their Own Language,” CCC 57:1, September 2005) strikes me as an unlikely lever for bringing about change; as a strategy for teaching writing, it is a disaster.

And if students infected with the facile egalitarianism of soft multiculturalism declare, “I have a right to my own language,” reply, “Yes , you do, and I am not here to take that language from you; I’m here to teach you another one.” (Who could object to learning a second language?) And then get on with it.

So how does one assign value to labor? Is there "value" in completion for completion's sake?

One of the only times I've heard Anarchism explained as not akin to chaos.

Remember to Toggle to our group page

which evidently was not white male landowners?

This entire document tries to live in a non-rhetorical world, which is what makes the report such hogwash.

But not yesterday!

As if these are non-rhetorical terms.

I'm not sure that's his argument, though, is it

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Awesome!

But can't ideas be rhetorical and true? That is, Fish obviously argues that everything is rhetorical, yet he'd also, I imagine, follow COVID protocols, right?

I like your directly addressing the reader.

Another one of those unsustainable issues in a democracy, right?

Well, that's what some people think . . .

Good questions. I think this gets at "intepretative communites," in a loose sense. If we think of a country, a culture, as a single interpretative community, then we work from a basic assumed range of plausible interpretations of key objects: take immigration, say. A culture generally has an acceptable range of positions on that topic; however, once one large chunk takes a position other large chunks cannot abide by, then that culture can't sustain itself. For example, if large chunk thinks slavery is ok and another doesn't, well, that's not sustainable, right?

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This would make for a fantastic essay!

Maybe it's always been? Isn't that part of Fish's point, too?

You might like this essay one day: https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf

A colon would work well here.

images would be cool

That's their goal, I suppose, huh?

These are the best!

"Interpretive communities" create truth, right? So it matters who comprises those communities!

Cool story

This is the 2nd mention of this song in Commonplace Books! You should this out!

Yes. That's a tension worth discussion!

The first of two references to this song in commonplace books. That's a first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccRif2DaGs

Interesting. I've not heard of it. How could I integrate it in my class?

What is "proper" is always "situated," though, right?

Interesting!

Well, this didn't hold up well, did it?

Well done!

Well done integrating textual evidence into your own syntax.

Try to make explicit the link between this and her thesis as you see it.

what does she mean by this?

You can loosen these up, if you want.

This is an excellent summary.

The first song no longer available was Johnny Paycheck's "Barstool Mountain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6DRKZllec

https://web.archive.org/web/20200220195958if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QY6b7Gel1c

Needed the right story.

who not whom, Fox, you idiots.

What rhetoricians call "Constitutive Rhetoric"

Something I've grown to believe more and more.

Not really leveraging this space rhetorically yet. Be multimodal, for one: images, links, and so forth.

Here's the "So what? Who cares?"

Good stuff here.

Templates generate content, and you can't help but be yourself.

Use the words you know. Doesn't mean you can't have longer sentences, but use the words you know and that are normal.

Rewards: Edification

Failure!

Yep.

Using form to generate content, i.e. TEMPLATES!

It's ok to fail and failure is subjective . . . and a gift!

Bingo.

I love this: Not knowing how to do something is a poor excuse not to try."

Dealing with doubt, "self-defeating inner dialogue."

Inspiration is "overrated."

Getting out of the ego, self-judgment.

"disappearing" is akin to getting "in the zone."

I like how "process" is basically whatever works in the moment. That is, process is also "situated."

Generating inspiration via demand.

Demand v Inspiration.

Great concept to remind ourselves of.

I find this section helpful

How can we can complete this form: "While most of us think 'spin' is _; Fish claims _"?

Sound bite

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Be multimodal, too.

More discussion about this would be probably interest many of us. As written, however, I'm not sure it really invites us to consider much. Consider audience. Reach out to us.

Is there a distinction between Protestant and Catholic Bibles?

Nice first entry, but leverage the Web's multimodal possibilities to your rhetorical advantage

Who is the reader here? Why not claim it for yourself?

are they hopeless?

How exactly? Which words? How to the relations of the words create this effect here?

Ryan Holiday's Ego is the Enemy . . . and use links to give us more info . . .

Here's his keynote at the Cs (from S. McGowan): https://youtu.be/brPGTewcDYY

SL notes that the question about the judgment we make about writing is racist and unracist.

PS notes the import of this language.

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I find it a fascinating discussion to have with students, an in, in fact, to discussing Identity / Difference. How do we judge our learning if not by grades? What makes me the student I am? What value is there in my study and my work if not a grade?

Does a rubric still create the same sense of arbitrariness, though? That's been one of my main challenges of ungrading:

• how to not shift the burden of the responsibility of judgment from me to my students?
• how to avoid rubrics that simply re-inscribe the values I'm trying to eschew?

Reminds me of Curzan's "Says Who? Questioning the Rules of the English Grammar" (2009), in which she writes,

Through language, we assert our identities. And we judge others on language (873).

And of Curzan's "Teaching the Politics of Standard English" (2002), in which she writes

A student once asked me, after one of our discussions about American dialects and language attitudes, 'How do you sleep at night?' What, she wanted to know, did I think my role, as well as that of other linguists, should be in informing the public about such misconceptions about dialects and about the harmful repercussions of these misconceptions? How, she asked, could people be so misinformed about dialects? And didn’t we have a responsibility to educate the public? (340).

My challenge with self-grading has been just this, which seems to absolve me, the pedagogue, of all responsibility and shift it onto the student, which viewed from one perspective could be reenacting the Panopticon?

I love this idea, but that's tons of time, right?

Which in itself requires teaching, I found. In fact, this is the real teaching I find myself doing perhaps.

Ranking the teeth, I suppose?

Link to Markey Ad.

But they're ADs! Why do people today see authenticity in something so obviously inauthentic? Is it the natural result of "social media"?

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Another example from @WillGrinnell: Glitch Art

A former student of mine introduced me to [Glitch Art] (https://edspace.american.edu/wg8139a/music/):

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really?

What a horribly written headline!

no mention of his rape here? Hmm.

You are full of shit.

Obviously bullshit.

Because of Trump. Let's be there was very little protest violence in B'ham the 31st.

Even though Fox News repeatedly repeated the Govt's claim that Tillman was killed fighting the Taliban.

In interviews with The Washington Post, the Army Ranger's mother and father said they believe the military and the government created a heroic tale about how their son died to foster a patriotic response across the country.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Matthew Beevers said Saturday that Tillman was killed Thursday night in a firefight at about 7 p.m. on a road near Sperah, about 25 miles southwest of a U.S. base at Khost.

After coming under fire, Tillman’s patrol got out of their vehicles and gave chase, moving toward the spot of the ambush. Beevers said the fighting was “sustained” and lasted 15-20 minutes. Pat Tillman turned down a $3.6 million contract in 2002 to join the Army in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Beevers said Tillman was killed by enemy fire, but he had no information about what type of weapons were involved in the assault, or whether he died instantly.

Example of using the First-person singular in formal writing.

I find key commands quite helpful when annotating: I use tabs to click between this block and the tag block. I use CTRL+Enter to submit my annotation. Makes life much much much better! :)

Here's his Twitter feed:

An example of Block Quoting

Topic sentence that transitions by "repeating with a difference."

Using a colon when the signal phrase is an independent clause.

Example of Repeating with a Difference

Example of transition/linking phrase

Here's a link to the full article.

Ultimately, . . .

Good!

Thomas's central focuses on the DNA molecule to show . . .

Obviously. Omit.

Good points! What kind of map might work better?

Good conversation!

strong first sentence!!

Your most sophisticated analysis yet! Great structure!

Italicized: Book title.

Very interesting! Did you discover this argument about why "people have begun to shift the language"? Or is this your idea? Either way, some links and voice markers would be interesting . . . for me, at least :)

Great convo! Some images, might be useful, too . . .

Powerful! Great entry!

Quotations.

This what?

There ya go! Except the title should be in quotes around the Italics (which are italicized here only because it's a different language).

Good stuff. I really enjoyed these!

same thing . . . citation, even in informal writing situations . . . why not?

Give us the source, too. And hyperlinks! z

Ontological! Identity/Difference!

Good stuff! Love it when I start making connections: Inventio!

And that's Rhetoric, right?! Worthy of further discussion. Good stuff! I suppose it comes down to unpacking the rhetorical sit

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Kuhn's "Paradigm Shift." Fish's "conversion."

Does he say that most "choose"? How does he define this "choose"? Is it consciously chosen?

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