MicahBrwn's Xanga

Friday, October 24, 2008
MicahBrwn's Xanga My Civic DutyIn the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.Law & Order has it partly right. There are actually three parts to the criminal justice system. The third part is the jury. Twelve (o...
Sat, Oct 25 2008

Sunday, February 04, 2007
MicahBrwn's Xanga Blog/Vlog Conference at GallaudetYesterday, on a whim, I decided to attend the conference on blogging and vlogging in the deaf community at Gallaudet. Since I've been posting on this thing for a good two years or so, I figured that I was one of the elite, yanno? According to the schedule, the conference was made up of four panel discussions … and I missed the [...]
Sun, Feb 04 2007

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
MicahBrwn's Xanga Today I had planned on touching on the kickoff of the 2008 Presidential race. However, something that I came across today forced me to post about something different. Tomorrow, I'll post about President Bush's final State of the Union Address before Congress. Thursday will be about the presidential nominees, I promise!DeafRead Blog Award nomineesFor the second year [...]
Tue, Jan 23 2007

Monday, November 06, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga Zero Hour...Tomorrow is Election Day. The day when we, as a people, go to the polls and choose who should represent us for the next two years. As you can see from the predicted makeup of the 110th Congress courtesy of electoral-vote.com on the left side of your screen, things look dire for the Republican Party. It's all but a given that the Democrats will take the [...]
Mon, Nov 06 2006

Saturday, November 04, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga Three days left...Damn, am I on pins and needles. As you can see on the left, www.electoral-vote.com is predicting a Democratic sweep of Congress. The Senate's still a tossup, fluctuating between a 51-49 Democratic majority, a 50-50 Republican majority, or a 49-51 Republican majority; but the House ... wow. As of today, it's a 240-195 Republican majority [...]
Sun, Nov 05 2006

Sunday, October 15, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga My final, FINAL Word...I realize that I said that my previous post was my final word on the protests... but after re-reading it, I had a bit of a regret. I want to be clear that I do support many of the aims of the FSSA. Obtaining a voice for future decision-makers is absolutely a necessity. The entire point of my previous posts was that I couldn't support many of [...]
Sun, Oct 15 2006

Sunday, October 15, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga Civil Disobedience at Gallaudet: My Final WordG-d willing, things will approach normalcy on Monday. As it stands, this will be my final blog post on the subject of the lockdown, the protesting of Jane Fernandes as President-designate, and everything else. In a few days (yeah, I need a break from this, too), I'll be back to posting about the national politics once [...]
Sun, Oct 15 2006

Saturday, October 14, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga DISCLAIMER: Oh, hell. You know what it is. Just read it in the last two previous posts.Lockdown, Day Three: Mass Arrests at GallaudetYou know... once again, I wish I didn't have to write this blog. Last night wasn't how I wanted the standoff to end. Last Friday, in an attempt to really be "heard" (if you'll pardon the audio-centricism), many students threw the [...]
Sat, Oct 14 2006

Thursday, October 12, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga Disclaimer: As always, thoughts about this particular situation are my own, and have no bearing on my position as an Adjunct Professor at Gallaudet University. You wanna disagree, fine. Disagree with me, not what I do.Campus-wide lockdown, Day Two Wow. A lot has happened since the last time I blogged about the goings-on on campus. And once again, I wish I didn't [...]
Thu, Oct 12 2006

Friday, October 06, 2006
MicahBrwn's Xanga LOCKDOWN???DISCLAIMER: The following views are my own, based on what goes on within the two square feet inside my skull and what I personally have observed. They do not have any bearing on my professional capacity as adjunct professor in the Government Department at Gallaudet University.::sigh:: I'd give anything to not have to write this entry. I much prefer to [...]
Sat, Oct 07 2006