Monday you should bring 1) a printed copy of your Carmichael analysis and 2) a copy of an original argument.

For those having trouble tracking down an argument, it may be that you’re looking for “quality,” something I don’t ask of you. Did you pump gas this week? QT is always trying to sell the latest coma-inducing pumpkin spice doughnut frozen coffee drink. That sign is an argument. Snap a picture, bring it in. The goal is open your eyes to the appeals you are inundated with constantly.

If you don’t want to have a conversation about a gas station drink advertisement (understandable), but don’t feel like you come into contact with interesting arguments regularly, here’s a solution:

• Arts & Letters Daily—Brilliant site bringing together articles from all over the Interwebs. Mostly scholarly, but all well-written.
• In These Times—Began as an “Independent Socialist Newspaper,” but is primarily progressive (left of center) in its leanings today. Kurt Vonnegut was a frequent contributor until 2005.
• Slate.com—Online-only news magazine. Gotta love the Explainer (not argumentative, but interesting nonetheless).
• NPR.org—Public Radio’s other online presence.
• The New Republic—Often insightful, this magazine focuses on politics and the arts.
• Time Magazine
• AdBusters—Popular amongst my students for the past few years. Worth checking out.
• National Review—Very well-written conservative magazine.
• The New Yorker
• Popmatters—Articles on popular culture; music, video games, the Interwebs, and movies are all topics. Great place to find an article and a new favorite band.
• The Huffington Post
• CNN.com

Advertisements:

• Vintage Ad Browser
• Adeevee—Please note: not always “school appropriate”; browse carefully.

Video sources:

• Kickstarter.com—The videos are a bit like commercials, but often do not have the credibility ((Brand recognition)) of established companies—this changes their arguments a bit.
• TED.com—The educated person’s YouTube.
• PopTech—Like TED, but mostly devoted to STEM.

How to read online:

Feedly is a free RSS reader that brings news, blog posts, comics, etc. to you in an easily read format. There are a number of programs out there that make reading the longer pieces online (and on your phone) a bit more comfortable; I use Pocket, but many others use Instapaper or Readability.

Which, if you know where “pandemonium” comes from, sounds an awful lot like the outcome of this game sent all these people into eternal torment.

To be fair, in the complete article the phrase is “sent 20,000 people into a burst of joyful, ear-splitting pandemonium.” While possibly more strange, at least that makes sense in the modern usage of the word.

Student hoaxes world’s media on Wikipedia

Is this interesting, or simply sad?

The original Guardian obit can be found here (with correction notice at the bottom). There is no mention of the mistake on The Guardian’s Wiki page.