digital guerrilla

i should have posted this a long time back, like when I first read it, but I didn’t. So here it is now because I agree with a lot of what is written there. (Ya’ll should check out John Rogers’s blog in general, especially if you are a Transformer fan as he is the one who wrote the first draft of the upcoming movie.)Kung Fu Monkey: I Miss Republicans.:”No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who’d nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science.”

the other day I was walking down one of the back hallways at the high school where I work when the idea hit me of suddenly being an elephant. I mean that literally, not being elephant-sized, but being an elephant, grey skin, trunk, big ears, etc. I dismissed the idea not because it was insane and impossible (I don’t think it was either), but because the hallway seemed to be too small to become an elephant of the size that I envisioned and the next person to walk into that hallway would likely freak out and the consequences, while not being disastrous, would be undesirable.I’m writing about this random idea not to convince you that I am insane, though that thought is likely crossing at least some of your minds. I share it because it was not a random one time flight of fancy and therefore provides a better glimpse into my thoughts about reality than many of you have previously received…. Nothing, even spontaneously being an elephant, is impossible.So if nothing is impossible, why isn’t everyone living in peace in happiness? The short answer is choice (and thanks to Damien for the it’s-right-in-front-of-you slap on the head that he didn’t know he gave me).

So. The recent remarks by the president of Harvard created a brief flurry of press nationwide (and it may still be swirling up there in Boston). His actual remarks aren’t available as the conference where he was speaking “was designed to be off-the-record so that participants could speak candidly without fear of public misunderstanding or disclosure later” (quoted from this New York Times article). I guess that was only the case if you didn’t say anything too controversial.From the reports I’ve read, he was asked to make a provocative speech to a lunchgroup.