Looking for a way to make Thomas Hobbes more to your students than life as “nasty, brutish, and short”? Today, I shared with my 4th-6th graders Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You’ve no doubt seen the Chuck Jones animated version, but I’m going to visit the original text. As the story goes, the [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Emily Dickinson, 1865
Revolution is the Pod Systems rattle from When the Winds of Will are stirred Excellent is Bloom But except its Russet Base Every Summer be The Entomber of itself, So of Liberty– Left inactive on the Stalk All its Purple fled Revolution shakes it for Test if it be dead. Bookmark on [...]
Is a Bailout of the Auto Companies Federalist in Nature?
The following thread is from a conversation conducted via email: –Hobbes21 ——————— Hey, Whole, I’m wondering what y’all think about the proposed automobile manufacturers’ bailout. Is it federalism at work, or diet socialism? Are the Big Three the last, best vestiges of a strong middle class, or simply lumbering dinosaurs? What is the price to our [...]
