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Month: May 2009

Move ’em on, Head ’em up, Cut ’em out, Ride ’em in…

May 5, 2009 Leigh M. Johnson RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 2 Comments

This time of year, I always here the theme song to “Rawhide” in my head. Only instead of “rollin’, rollin’, rollin’…”, I hear “gradin’, gradin’, gradin’…” This verse is especially inspirational:Keep movin’, movin’, movin’ Though they’re disapprovin’ Keep them dogies movin’ Rawhide! Don’t try to understand ’em Just rope, throw, and brand ’em Soon we’ll…

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Torture 101

May 2, 2009 Dr. J Dr. J's Lists, Human Rights, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching, Torture, Weak Humanism 2 Comments

A friend and colleague of mine invited me to come speak to his class about torture last week. The class was a writing seminar, organized around the theme of “citizenship,” and my colleague was feeling (understandably) frustrated because– in his words– he “just didn’t feel like [he] had the tools or the knowledge to counter…

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