The Fourth Estate

All,

I would like to encourage you to post, in addition to lolcat pictures and Onion articles, news pieces of interest. As you hopefully noted given the midterm topics, the course materials are directly relevant to much of that which is going on in the world on any given day. Also, as a fan of the Constitution, it is not a privilege but a duty for the citizenry to remain informed in a democracy. In other words, there is much to be learned.

NB: (1) Although posting and commenting on news articles will not count towards your course assignment responsibilities, it will add to your participation on the blog (relative to that which you post, of course). (2) Naturally I will expect the type of decorum and consideration that we maintain in class discussion. I am not interested in, and will not suffer, partisan (either side) tripe on the blog. I think you know the difference.

Cheers,

-W.