Effective August 28, it will be illegal for Missouri teachers to friend their students on Facebook. In fact, Missouri Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), signed into law July 14, prohibits all social networking between teachers and students. That includes not only Facebook, but Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Foursquare, to name but a few. Online gaming […]
To quote myself quoting an unlikable Maugham character last month, “a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.” And while I don’t for a moment believe that anybody wants to die in combat, intuition tells me that many or […]
In his 2002 editorial “The reason there’s no White Expo,” black columnist Leonard Pitts explains that whiteness is an artifical construct used most pervasively in America to circle the wagons around wealth and influence, rewarding homogeneity among fair-skinned peoples while subjugating everybody else. This has made “White” an incendiary designation, whereas designations like “Scottish,” “Polish” […]
