• visual rhetoric

One of our Master's students, Dan Richards, posted this to our TA blog recently...it's pretty cool.

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• thanksgiving

Be sure to have your tissues nearby before watching this one.

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• Net art

Scott Rettberg posted this link on FB to a cool net art piece by Michael Takeo Magruder about Obama's election night speech.

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• veterans

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• rhetoric
• torture

In today's NYT, Stanley Fish serves up some blame in the torture blame game, and guess where he goes: rhetoric. "The emphasis is not on what is true, but on what works, what gets results even if the results are obtained by torture. If the testimony you are citing has been elicited by torture, just say that 'it was in order to discover the truth that our ancestors wished to make use of torture' ('Rhetorica ad Herennium')."

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• election

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• education
• politics

In "Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe Not" the NY Times reports on a study that counters the widely held conservative view that academia is indoctrinating students with liberal politics...and changing them. Not so, says this study. So much for the pressure to create faculty positions in conservatism and watchdog departments. Now, if those conservatives would just stop stealing our Obama signs from our front yards, come Nov 5th we might just teach them a thing or two about rhetorical ethos.

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• political ads

Soft money ads from places like Neverfindout.org are flooding the airwaves. One series in particular will end with this button image:
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My question: How can 'never find out' be a means to 'think beyond rhetoric'?

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• political rhetoric

I'm so glad my name isn't Joe. Annnnyway.....here's an interesting piece on NPR about a focus group from Pennsylvania asked to analyze the rhetoric of the campaigns. Too bad they won't invite rhetoricians on CNN, rather than the pundits (and/or fundits on SNL).

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• visual rhetoric

NPR has visualized Palin and Biden's words here. Interesting.

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