The Labor Degree

I like the way our Trustees think. One of them wants to see a series of classes on Labor in America. I am truly intrigued by this idea, and would love to teach one of them.
I have not seen the details but from what I have heard this is based on a program at LATTC
 Los Angles Trade Tech offers many classes on this topic but a few that we in the social science can take to Curriculum are the following:
U.S. Labor History (3)  (History Department)
Labor and Political Action (3) (Political Science)
Labor in the Global Economy (3) (Economics)
Workplace Gender and Race Issues (3) (Sociology)

  

What is Facebook

This weekend a friend of mine who works for Yahoo dropped down to SoCal.
He had one of those Blackberry phones and I asked to see it. I noticed he had a facebook icon on his blackberry.
We started talking about why would someone use facebook?
He told me that lots of people use facebook as a replacement for their email.
Facebook has an internal, closed network, email system. This closed system prevents spam by being a closed system. If someone spam
other members, they will lose access to facebook.
I have another facebook friend who seems to be communicating with her kids via facebook. In order to monitor her childrens friends she became their friend and is leaving message for them to do their chores. Her children are 10 and 12.

Of course there is the Narcissism and the Stalking features too which my visiting friend did not understand.

I got the above picture from Despair.com via facebook.

Current Events and our Disciplines

Here is something for the Psychologist among us. The DSM-V was reorganized.
Here is one for the Sociologists among us. Dating is Dated!
Here is one for History.
Here is a story grading our new President elects choice for Secretary of Education.
Here is one for Humanities. It is titled "what to drink when love is over".
There is too much Political Science and Economics in the news so you can search for those yourself.