Rumormongering!

Next year the state is going to furlough all teachers for 10 days out of their 180 day contract. They will not, however, shorten the school year--teachers will be asked instead to write sub plans for those days so that the kids still get their 1,000 hours of instruction.

I get quite a few rumours e-mailed my way, and I think this one is crap, but if it happens you heard it here first.

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Because Sometimes It's Just Easier to Cut and Paste the Cheap Internet Quiz

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(Comic Books) Regarding Final Crisis

You've got to be kidding me.

Grant Morrison has officially gone around the bend. Animal Man was 20 years ago and it's carried his reputation ever since, but this new maxi-series is a special kind of crap.

We've essentially built up to a rip-off of Marvel Zombies. That's the best DC could do for their annual summer event? Really?

And I'm really, really tired of the New Gods. The powers-that-be should trot Darkseid out once a year to have a big fight with Superman and then GO AWAY.

Let's also acknowledge that while Kirby's creations might have worked in the '60s, there hasn't been a good New Gods story since Cosmic Odyssey, and that was a long, long time ago.

There are no good Granny Goodness stories. There are no good Big Barda stories. Hunger Dogs worked in Legends of the DC Universe, but every trip to Apokolips since (and I include Countdown in this) has been a faint echo of better times past.

The bloom is very off the DC flower right now.

/comicnerdwhinging

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This post has nothing to do with teaching or education

Because every now and then, it's good to talk about other things.

Loving this season of The Ultimate Fighter. I expected more out of Corey in his first fight, but I don't see how Dana could say that the other guy won it; Corey was clearly more aggressive.

That head kick that Gonzaga used to knock Mirko Cro Cop out was monster. Didn't see that one coming at all, but if St. Pierre can lose anything can happen.

So, Randy gets Gonzaga next, and I'll be damned if I don't think that Gonzaga beats The Natural to become the champion. After that, who knows? If Cro Cop comes back with a couple of wins, if Silvia actually puts out some effort, if Arlovski keeps going as he should....it's a heck of a division.

I like Around the Horn. It's good TV, and I don't care what anyone says Jay Mariotti is aces with me.

Provolone is clearly the best of all the cheeses. Really, I don't see any other cheese coming close.

NBC needs to give some of the shows in their 10:00 p.m. Monday slot a chance, instead of turfing them after a few weeks. I thought Studio 60 was a masterpiece that just needed time to catch on. The Black Donnellys would have worked better as a mini-series event. Wedding Crashers only getting three weeks shows that NBC is a network that is throwing everything they can out there and seeing what sticks, but they're doing it too fast.

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is as addictive as crack. I have about 180 hours into it now with my Dark Elf Vampire Assassin, and there's still hundreds of options for what I could do. This morning I routed Mancoran in his own house and now I'm ready to go back to the Imperial City, where I think it all goes down. I'll kill a goblin for you.

Arena Football is aces. I went to a game for our own Spokane Shock last year, and man is it ever an exciting environment to watch a game in.

I've gone 5 months without Pepsi. Switched to Coke instead. I miss Pepsi.

Happy Sunday!

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