{"id":3511,"date":"2009-03-18T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/18\/links-for-2009-03-18\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:00:21","slug":"links-for-2009-03-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/18\/links-for-2009-03-18\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-03-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/03\/17\/bs\">bs \/ 17 \/ 03 \/ 2009 \/ News \/ Home &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[A] panel at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication considered the question of \u00e2\u0080\u009cEmpty Rhetoric and Academic Bullshit: Strategies for Composition\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Self-Representation in National Arenas.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the discussion, participants differed on how much of a problem their language is \u00e2\u0080\u0093 and because this is a meeting of language and rhetoric experts, the discussion referenced issues that were personal to scholars\u00e2\u0080\u0099 work and values.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=761\">Two Cents on AIG \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Sure, pissing about AIG\u00e2\u0080\u0099s bonuses is populist grandstanding on some level. Beneath the momentary gratification of looking for villains, however, there are some more serious principles at stake. If you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re the kind of person who argued that folks who take economic risks should accept the consequences and that labor markets dictate the value of skilled employees, you should be the first person throwing rotten tomatoes at bonus payments to any managers at any of the bailed-out companies. The companies themselves are the front lines where risk and markets are being tested. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordmunger.com\/?p=1109\">The abortion debate isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t about the right to life<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The most charitable way of putting the anti-abortion argument is that a women who gets pregnant via unprotected, consenting sex should have to live with the consequences of the decision she made. I bet you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d get close to fifty percent agreement with that statement if you put it to a nationwide poll. If you phrased it a little differently, you might get a different response: \u00e2\u0080\u009cPregnancy and childbirth are fitting punishments for women who have unprotected sex.\u00e2\u0080\u009d&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pochedley.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/brawls-circumcisions-guns-gardening-and.html\">So it goes.: Brawls, Circumcisions, Guns, Gardening, and Sticks and Stones<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A circumcision is a pretty intense procedure (Pieter introduced us to the process with a sock, his fist, and a very large wrench, thank you Pieter), especially for a rural clinic. Everything is very complicated relative to the US operating room in which Pieter practiced &#8211; sterilization, trained assistants, anesthesia, communication, etc. Despite the complications, all the procedures ended well and I think everyone was happy after the fact.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bs \/ 17 \/ 03 \/ 2009 \/ News \/ Home &#8211; Inside Higher Ed &quot;[A] panel at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication considered the question of \u00e2\u0080\u009cEmpty Rhetoric and Academic Bullshit: Strategies for Composition\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Self-Representation in National Arenas.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the discussion, participants differed on how much of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/18\/links-for-2009-03-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-03-18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}