If you are wondering where you vote, this map from Google will give you the location of your voting station. If you are going to be 18, vote. It is only your future after all. 🙂
Select a news topic from the list below, then select a news article to read.
Mark Edmunson, in the New York Times:
…In what’s called the civilized world, the
great enemy of knowledge isn’t ignorance, though ignorance will do in a
pinch. The great enemy of knowledge is knowingness. It’s the feeling
encouraged by TV and movies and the Internet that you’re on top of
things and in charge. You’re hip and always know what’s up. Cool — James Dean-style
cool — was once the sign of the rebel. But the tables have turned:
conformity and cool have merged. The cool character now is the knowing
one; even when he’s unconventional, he’s never surprising — and most of
all, he’s never surprised. Good teachers, by contrast, are constantly
fighting against knowingness by asking questions, creating
difficulties, raising perplexities.
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.” –Stephen Dunn
The link to the discussion group has moved a bit, to the picture menu on the far right of the site.
You could also probably just directly download the reading for tonight, but I didn’t want anyone to get lost.
Have a great summer everyone. Read some good books and enjoy some quality time out in the woods. 🙂