HuffPO

Another daily source I look at is the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)
. While HuffPo tends to be anti-Republican (even though Ariana Huffington used to be a Republican!), and a bit anti-Hillary, it is still a great website due to the great variety of correspondents who write for the sie, and the huge number of links.

Check it our for yourself. My favorite columnist at HuffPo is a Stanford lawyer--Lawrence Lessig!

First Read

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

The first Political Website I check everyday is MSNBC's First Read. There are several reasons I follow this blog. One reason is Chuck Todd--he is MSNBC's political director, and one of the most astute political analysts around. Another reason is that they post several updates during the day, and will post when they learn of any new commitments by Superdelegates. Now that Obama is about 5o delegates from the nomination, I like to watch the delegate count to keep track of his inevitable march to the nomination!

I'm beginning to get back into the blogging swing of things.

One of my students has already posted four blog entries in the first week of class!!! I'm behind the curve!

Back to the Blogs!

It's been more than a month since I finished blogging--my research methods class finished also. I was really, really happy with the research projects done in the class--some very interesting work! You never know in this class what you will get as a final product--I wasn't disappointed!

My one disappointment in the class was that I did have to fail two students. I always feel as if the failure is partly mine when a student fails (an attitude I developed as a military instructor), but there is not much you can do when the student just disappears from class. That doesn't happen much in the military--the penalties for going AWOL are a bit more severe than an "F" grade!!!!

My summer online course is W331, Business and Administrative writing, and my students are already setting up their blogs for the course. Already some interesting topics--ethanol, fashion design, advertising.

As usual, I'll blog alongside my students. I think my topic, given the political season, will be political blogs and websites. I'll link to some of my favorite political websites and blogs, and give you my review of them.

Sunny Day!!!!!