Tales Of Brave Ulysses

A couple stories that interested me.

• Teaching In America: The Impossible Dream – I’ve never felt much pull to become a teacher, despite a strong affinity for pontification and several seminal teachers in my long school history. Despite any lingering romantic notions of service as a teacher, I rather like making a decent salary and not being denigrated by students and irate parents. The Alternet article is a plug for Teachers Have It Easy, a book exploring why teachers are paid so poorly in the United States.
  
• Requiem For An Office – An interesting article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (the guys behind the Doomsday Clock), written by Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science.

I’ve heard it mentioned before, but this year I have advance warning about Talk Like A Pirate Day on Monday, September 19. Oh boy, I sense a fun day at the office coming…

Ooo…

This Monday is Talk Like a Pirate Day. This will be fun.

I’ve been listening to this a lot lately: