Category Archives: shit we have no idea about

Middlebrow Continental Philosophy

Posted on 3 September 2020 by zolltan

Lately, reading the news on the internet has been an unpleasant experience, and not just because of what it says. It’s also because of how it says it. For example, in the wake of deaths at protests in Kenosha, I … Continue reading →

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The Zolltan imminent geopolitical disaster prediction special

Posted on 4 May 2019 by zolltan

There are a couple good reasons to not make this post. The first is that I’ve been hoping for a long time that zipppa would make it instead. The second is that it is in really bad taste. And nevertheless, … Continue reading →

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The Democratic Candidates

Posted on 25 April 2019 by zolltan

Seeing how well my playoff predictions went, maybe my predictions shouldn’t be listened to by anyone. So I’m not going to try to predict who will win the Democratic nomination for 2020. Instead, I want to give something that’s not … Continue reading →

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The Geographer’s Apprentice

Posted on 12 October 2018 by zolltan

I’m sitting, eating, looking down at the Place des Grottes. A square framed by four houses. A little girl is learning how to roller blade. A man is sitting on a bench talking to himself. Periodically he explodes into sporadic … Continue reading →

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The Biased Media

Posted on 20 May 2017 by zolltan

I recently had Vietnamese food with my friend J., and this is what he said on the topic of the mainstream media: “I know, there are dangers to treating all of the mainstream media as a monolith, but in some … Continue reading →

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Les Tories sont des patriotes français

Posted on 11 May 2017 by zolltan

A long time ago on this blog, I wrote a post on politics that I’m still pretty happy with: “Every Other Country’s Government Is Too Right Wing”. It’s about how it’s natural to want other countries’ governments to be further … Continue reading →

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Grades

Posted on 14 March 2017 by zolltan

Grades are a bad system. Before I began teaching, and even for a while after, I considered being against grades to be the philosophical realm of kumbaya-singing hippies (by the way, why is that song such a strong cliché associated … Continue reading →

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Teacher Evaluation

Posted on 6 March 2017 by zolltan

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, controversy in education in the US is about standardized testing. And specifically, using standardized testing to evaluate K-12 teachers. Intelligent people, whether supporters or detractors, generally agree that good teaching can be … Continue reading →

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Cost Disease in Education

Posted on 1 March 2017 by zolltan

At Slate Star Codex, Scott Alexander writes a post on a pretty important question: why do things cost so much more these days, without there being any particular benefit to the average person? Like he mentions, there are many people … Continue reading →

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Protesting Pipelines is Worthwhile

Posted on 29 November 2016 by zolltan

Trudeau approved the Kinder Morgan pipeline among others today, and of course the ongoing fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline keeps making the news for the brutal treatment of protestors by police. These are fights that I think activism can … Continue reading →

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