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Keeping Up With the Kardashians

SELLING YOURSELF AS A KOMMODITY

SELLING YOURSELF AS A KOMMODITY

I am krazily koncerned about the Kardashians.  I’m a kompassionate kind of girl, so really, how kould I not worry about this komplex family unit?  

And, by the way, I’m koncidering starting a movement to eliminate the letter “K” from the English language entirely, which means that I will need a new last name.  I’m thinking I should probably steer clear from the surname “Duggar” though, what with their heavy associations with religion and chastity and recently revealed charges of child molestation.  

Ironic how some things turn out, no?

THE DEKLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

THE DEKLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

I stood in front of my class yesterday in a flippy skirt and opaque black tights – it’s November now after all – and told my eighteen year old seniors that we were leaving the 1940s behind and sauntering our way into the next decade.

On the board behind me, written in a pretty purple-colored chalk, was the word zeitgeist.
                                                             
“Say it with me so you know how to pronounce it,” I told my students who are old enough to vote, even though most of them don’t.  “Zeitgeist.”

“Zeitgeist,” they said back in unison, and for a brief moment I thought I knew what teaching kindergarten must be like.