About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
Rindercella
The next day, the prandsom hince went all over the coreign fountry looking for the geautiful birl who had slopped her dripper. Finally he came to Rindercella's house. He tried it on Rendercella's mugly other ... and it fidn't dit. Then he tried it on her two sigly...
Gold Star
From: I don’t recall all the details. But my memory of my uncle’s ranch in Wisconsin is a mixture of nostalgia (electric fences, recalcitrant goats, mischievous cousins) and horror (12,000 chickens stacked on top of one another, electric fences, potent...
Inventing Value: Collectibles and the Grotesque
I think I saw it first as a friend and I were killing time in a mall before the beginning of a forgettable movie: The Barack Obama Collectible Plate. I stopped, considering the design and realizing that probably 51 companies had created 132 different designs of...
I Am Responsible for the BP Oil Disaster
The last two months has been little but news-clogged media around the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We are immersed in apologies, ladled with blame, and are tuned in to 24/7 HD coverage of the leak 5000 feet below the surface (watched online by literally tens of...
The Genie is Out: How Some in Iran Understand Democracy Better than We Do
Everywhere but my classroom, media literacy dominates the lives of our American (and global) public. The average college-bound student may read eight books each year, but will read nearly 3000 web pages and 1200 Facebook profiles. Students may write 40 pages of...
The Mythology of Violence
No matter how many layers of language and manners we paint over our selves, at our centers, implies Joseph Conrad, is a desperate selfish hunger, a need to account for ourselves by defining the "I" against the "Other," to lash out in violence. At some levels, our...
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