War Games Eagle
Dec 15I plan to stay away from campus tomorrow morning, since it sounds like I wouldn’t be able to get into my office anyway: Auburn University will have an “active shooter” emergency preparedness training exercise the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 16, so university personnel and local first-responders can practice dealing with a campus emergency or disaster. [...]
A People’s History of Pandora
Dec 15Apparently the statist Right is exercised because Avatar is an “America-hating, PC revenge fantasy,” a “thinly disguised, heavy-handed and simplistic sci-fi fantasy/allegory critical of America from our founding straight through to the Iraq War.” So hey, another reason to see it.
The Change I’d Be Tempted to Make …
Dec 15… if I were rewriting Atlas Shrugged, or adapting it to movie form. Sacrilege, I know. But here’s the idea: “John Galt” is just a pseudonym for Francisco d’Anconia. Advantages: It switches out a character that readers find hard to relate to and switches in a character that most readers love. It doesn’t require us [...]
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