I seem to be preoccupied with guns lately, and Nathan is not helping. We spent just over an hour at the Macon Police Department’s shooting range yesterday. Nathan was practicing his black ops shooting techniques for something he’s writing, and I was educating myself about handguns.
One of the first things I learned is that owning [...]
Shooting with Nathan
by grlucas on 09. Mar, 2010 in Personal, Politics
Not a Business
by grlucas on 20. Nov, 2009 in Academia, Business, Politics
In a meeting on campus the other day, someone said to me: “The college is a business.”
I responded: “No, it’s not. There might be business done in the college, but it is an institution of higher education.”
I know that many in this state — and perhaps around the country — are trying to sell this [...]
Giroux on Education
by grlucas on 18. Nov, 2008 in Politics, Video
Henry Giroux states, in “Obama and the Promise of Education“:
One of the most important challenges, especially for educators, facing the US in a post-Bush period, is to take seriously the educational force of a culture that is central to constructing a new type of citizen. What is needed are citizens defined less through the hatred [...]
Standpedia
by grlucas on 24. Oct, 2006 in Teaching, Writing
Another cool Web 2.0 site I discovered recently is Standpedia. On their FAQ, they call it a “wiki-style encyclopedia of controversy” where “tough questions are answered from a variety of perspectives, instead of a single ‘neutral point of view.’” What I like about the site is that they encourage users to problematize ideas, rather than [...]
About G. R. Lucas
Gerald "Jerry" R. Lucas is an English Professor, photographer, science fiction geek, Mac and Linux dude, devoted husband, cat owner, part-time runner, full-time vegan, BMW motorcyclist, and Mini Cooper "S" driver. And this is his web site.
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Hemingway’s "Indian Camp"
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On Kafka’s Metamorphosis
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Equipment for England
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Shooting with Nathan
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New Canon 5D
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Rights
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Rainy and Random
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Spring Domesticity
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Shooting with Nathan
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