Author: rcragun
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SHOCKING, TRAGIC DEATH!
(Regardless of political persuasion, you’ll probably find this funny! Poor Rocky….)
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a better post on the current financial shenanigans in D.C.
This post comes from fellow Sociologist, Dave Purcell, at Kent State. I liked it so much I asked him if I could repost it here. So, with his permission: I don’t claim to be an expert on government spending, so please correct me if I am interpreting the budget numbers below in the wrong way.…
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update on Signing for Something website
Not that I’m excited to post on here about Mormonism again, but I do think this turn of events is interesting. One of the key people who set up the website “Signing for Something” opposing the LDS Church’s attempts to ban gay marriage in California is now being excommunicated for expressing his dissenting views. He…
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The Fed… a.k.a. The Corporate Piggy Bank
I don’t know that this is a Democratic or Republican problem (probably just a politics problem), but this story from the New York Times illustrates how our government has become a piggy bank to corporations. Big corporations make bad decisions and now Americans are footing the bill. They rob the people once by giving them…
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more politics…
So, I posted a video recently with Obama and Biden being grilled by a reporter on 60 Minutes. In the interest of balancing the debate, here are two videos from an interview of Sarah Palin by Charlie Gibson.: Part 1 Part 2 Watch them and then watch the Obama/Biden video and think about who you…
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Learning Styles
As we prepared for classes this summer, we were asked to prepare information in one of our classes on “learning styles” as well as Myers-Briggs personality tests. I’ve long been skeptical of these ideas, so I did a little digging with Debi. Below is what we found. We wrote a report to give to the…
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A Republican sees poverty?
It’s kind of amazing, but for all you Republican supporters out there, you should check this article out. One of your own is telling you that Republicans need to do something about inequality if they want to stay in power.
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just, just watch him for a minute…
I really do try to stay away from politics on my blog, but I’m not always successful. And considering the election is getting closer and closer every day (about 2 months out now), I figured it was time for a short political blurb. I caught this interview with Barack Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday and…
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highpointing page update
I’m buried with the start of school, but I did finally find a few minutes to put the finishing touches on a new flash-based interactive map to detail my highpointing adventures. You can see and interact with the new map here. If you find any problems, typos, etc., let me know. If you think it’s…
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Trip Wrap-up
We made it back to Tampa Tuesday, the 19th, but not without a little trouble. We were scheduled to fly back from Utah on Tuesday, but we were supposed to arrive in Tampa Tuesday night around 10pm, which was exactly when Fay was supposed to hit Tampa (at least, that was the projection Monday afternoon).…