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should we teach kids to be patriotic?

04 July 08 09:05 AM | jtspencer | 2 Comments   

Sometime after 9-11, I lost all sense of patriotism. It might have been the way people used the American flag to sell beer (not unlike Jesus Breathmints and granola bars). Perhaps it was when I first heard a country singer telling me we should stick a Read More...

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first ever video blog post

07 April 08 08:10 AM | John Spencer's Blog - A Billion Blogs of Solitude | 0 Comments   

The following is a video blog post I created. I did this for a few reasons. First, we have to do it for our class. Also, I realized awhile ago that this is such a multimedia culture that this is the language people speak. Like my friend Dustin pointed Read More...

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