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- What piece of art would you steal?: Bill Reid's "Raven and the First Men"
- What is your sweetest taboo?: tormenting trolls on my local paper's comment thread
- What song do you never want to hear again?: Jason Mraz-The Remedy
- What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: loose for lose, heigth(sic) and "could of"
- What book have you read the most?: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Jun 17
lauramae commented on The Monday Morning News.
lauramae commented on The Monday Morning News.
Re: License plates.
Oklahoma license plates are like naming suburbs after people and things that used to be there but were removed to make way for the suburb.
Oklahoma was the god forsaken place that a lot of tribes were sent when they were removed from their homes. Then the US decided that Oklahoma should be open up for settlement. Huge land rush ensues where settlers literally run to claim their plot of OKIE paradise, displacing areas once again for the tribes there.
The plates are a nod toward the history of Oklahoma being called Indian Territory and for the many tribes who now call Oklahoma home.
Missionaries and Christians read all sorts of things into many types of Native art that isn't there. Besides, the OK license plates aren't one kind of Native art, maybe not even designed by a Native artist, but seems to represent the various Native cultures present in the state.
Oklahoma license plates are like naming suburbs after people and things that used to be there but were removed to make way for the suburb.
Oklahoma was the god forsaken place that a lot of tribes were sent when they were removed from their homes. Then the US decided that Oklahoma should be open up for settlement. Huge land rush ensues where settlers literally run to claim their plot of OKIE paradise, displacing areas once again for the tribes there.
The plates are a nod toward the history of Oklahoma being called Indian Territory and for the many tribes who now call Oklahoma home.
Missionaries and Christians read all sorts of things into many types of Native art that isn't there. Besides, the OK license plates aren't one kind of Native art, maybe not even designed by a Native artist, but seems to represent the various Native cultures present in the state.
Jun 13
lauramae commented on San Diego Catholic School Fires Teacher for Her Abusive Ex-Husband's Behavior.
lauramae commented on San Diego Catholic School Fires Teacher for Her Abusive Ex-Husband's Behavior.
Catholic schools and Catholic hospitals can be brutal to their employees. If it were the abuser that was employed, I'm afraid that the school and the diocese would have done nothing about it because the Catholic Church is also sexist.
Jun 4
lauramae commented on Governor Inslee: I'm "Shocked," "Surprised," "Concerned," "Disappointed," and "Blindsided" by Republican Effort to Repeal Washington's Estate Tax.
lauramae commented on Governor Inslee: I'm "Shocked," "Surprised," "Concerned," "Disappointed," and "Blindsided" by Republican Effort to Repeal Washington's Estate Tax.
Inslee needs to refuse to sign anything that isn't directly related to the budget. And veto this sort of horse shit from the do nothing legislature.
Jun 3
lauramae commented on A Million Dollars (Plus A Half-Million More in Matching Funds) to the Glass Museum.
lauramae commented on A Million Dollars (Plus A Half-Million More in Matching Funds) to the Glass Museum.
This is fantastic news. The museum does a really fine job of bringing people in to watch what goes on in the hot shop and there are series of visiting artists (both glass and in other media) that work in the hot shop with the technicians.
I love the kids glass works-where they envision the art object and the technicians make it a reality. And the Preston Singletary mid-career show was pretty awesome. During that year, the museum had a series of Native American artists working in the shop.
Glass is certainly not an art medium that is widely accessible. The Museum of Glass works very hard to get a wide variety of youth and other artists to try it. I think that's pretty cool.
I was there this past Spring.
I love the kids glass works-where they envision the art object and the technicians make it a reality. And the Preston Singletary mid-career show was pretty awesome. During that year, the museum had a series of Native American artists working in the shop.
Glass is certainly not an art medium that is widely accessible. The Museum of Glass works very hard to get a wide variety of youth and other artists to try it. I think that's pretty cool.
I was there this past Spring.
May 29
lauramae commented on Better than Florida! Washington State Has Second-Worst-Funded Public University System in the Nation.
lauramae commented on Better than Florida! Washington State Has Second-Worst-Funded Public University System in the Nation.
@19 and several other comments made by the same individual really hammer home the point. "I got mine, fuck you if you want the same."
As for online courses replacing physical campuses: I think it wouldn't be a long term realistic picture. People often see higher education as a conduit that blows information into a student's head absent any other factor. The education isn't limited to what happens in the classroom. If a student knows to take advantage of many different opportunities they develop a broad range of skills that will serve them well after college. Just about everyone who has ever graduated from college benefits from the interaction with other students in the classroom and outside of the classroom. That isn't my opinion, it is a fact.
Students with degrees earned largely on-line and their employers are going to realize relatively soon that they haven't developed into the creative problem-solvers that people who've participated alongside others---in real life.
As for online courses replacing physical campuses: I think it wouldn't be a long term realistic picture. People often see higher education as a conduit that blows information into a student's head absent any other factor. The education isn't limited to what happens in the classroom. If a student knows to take advantage of many different opportunities they develop a broad range of skills that will serve them well after college. Just about everyone who has ever graduated from college benefits from the interaction with other students in the classroom and outside of the classroom. That isn't my opinion, it is a fact.
Students with degrees earned largely on-line and their employers are going to realize relatively soon that they haven't developed into the creative problem-solvers that people who've participated alongside others---in real life.
May 28
lauramae commented on Better than Florida! Washington State Has Second-Worst-Funded Public University System in the Nation.
lauramae commented on Better than Florida! Washington State Has Second-Worst-Funded Public University System in the Nation.
@10. Yes, this is true. My point about this sad fact for WA, has to do with the usual higher ed bashing lobbed at the public institutions in this state.
When you think about how newspapers and their readers like to complain about higher education, they usually throw in the exorbitant salaries as fodder for the blanket attacks. For good measure, people through STEM around while blasting liberal arts and confusing it with liberalism.
When you think about how newspapers and their readers like to complain about higher education, they usually throw in the exorbitant salaries as fodder for the blanket attacks. For good measure, people through STEM around while blasting liberal arts and confusing it with liberalism.
May 28
lauramae commented on Better than Florida! Washington State Has Second-Worst-Funded Public University System in the Nation.
lauramae commented on Better than Florida! Washington State Has Second-Worst-Funded Public University System in the Nation.
I've worked in higher education in Indiana, Kansas and Washington State. Obviously both Indiana and Kansas are conservative places. I never heard the denigration of higher education in those states that I have here, in Washington.
I think that is ultimately what makes it so easy for the legislature over the years to chip away at higher education. They did this even during the boom years long before 2008.
Of course, we don't necessarily help our own cause when the football coaches at the state's flagship universities boast the highest state salaries.
I think that is ultimately what makes it so easy for the legislature over the years to chip away at higher education. They did this even during the boom years long before 2008.
Of course, we don't necessarily help our own cause when the football coaches at the state's flagship universities boast the highest state salaries.
May 23
lauramae commented on An I-5 Bridge Over the Skagit River Has Collapsed.
lauramae commented on An I-5 Bridge Over the Skagit River Has Collapsed.
While it seems clear to many that it was a truck who hit a girder, why didn't it hit the others as it traveled South on the Bridge?
May 23
lauramae commented on Michele Bachmann Says God Will Perform a Miracle to Free Us All from "the Yoke of Obamacare".
lauramae commented on Michele Bachmann Says God Will Perform a Miracle to Free Us All from "the Yoke of Obamacare".
Proof that religion makes your more stupid.
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Still pretty stupid to think it will be taken to convey agreement with any religious view over a cultural reference.