Global Crisis

Family Vacation for a few days. Back late Sund...

There's been a lot of focus lately on Crisis Intervention Training for police officers. It's being billed as an antidote to the failures of police to handle situations involving mental illness. Maryland just became the first state to mandate it state-wide for all officers, thanks to the work of the #JusticeForEthan movement. I'll be writing more about...

Yesterday I got a comment on another post from a parent who ended up on my blog. The short version is that at a public play-place her son was hurt by a child with DS and she didn't know what to do about it, because how can you blame a child with DS for anything? I offer the comment...

My i3 REx. Will it now cost me $3,900 more than my contract calls for? It what can only be categorized as a major misstep, BMW of North America has announced that the i3 with range extender is not tax exempt in the state of New Jersey as what was previously reported. Back on January...

Nissan today announced U.S. pricing for the 2015 Nissan Versa Note hatchback, which is on sale now at Nissan dealers nationwide. Following its highly successful debut as a 2014 model, the Nissan Versa Note enters its second year of production with a number of significant enhancements...

I write a lot about privilege and I have a lot of privilege. I've long argued that it's important to be very thoughtful when writing about academic labor while tenured, gender while male, race while white, disability while able-bodied, and so forth.When writing about a given power...

Not Nico's Actual Bus"It's so sad when people have special needs."A caring, sweet, 4th-grader said this to me at the bus stop a few minutes ago. My son and I crossed the street, running and laughing, happy. Then he asked me to go see a dog that was being walked across the grass,...

Charging up at Hampton Inn in Turnersville... but for how long?Ever since the i3 colors were announced, I had thought about doing a custom color wrap for my i3. The colors offered just weren't very inspiring and other than the Solar Orange, they were all white and shades of grey...

A representation of possible intersections. Not representative of Rodger.The murders in California and the subsequent #YesAllWomen hashtag (an overview) have, appropriately, dominated my social media world since it happened. For some, the murder is a clear...

It's Sunday and it's my birthday. Here's my blog post.I wrote good stuff this week. Please go read it and share it. :) I published three essays - Chronicle on being a working dad, CNN on trigger warnings, and Chronicle Vitae on labor identity for full-time...

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I'm working on a piece about the various ways that writers about higher education, especially those within the academy, write about students with absolute disdain. Here are some of the responses to the Trigger Warning and Commencement issue, both filled with scorn and not getting it.Here's the worst, one so bad I am hesitant to even include the link....

Brief rant: 1) Nothing is EVER the "last acceptable" anything. There are multiple types of prejudice at work in pretty much every situation.— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 20, 2014 2) Calling something "last acceptable" is a way of saying no one is paying attention to your cause! But it's not needed.— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 20, 2014...