Punt

Okay, I admit it, I punted this morning. Not happy with how my lecture outline was coming together, I instead slid in a dvd for class this morning. Really, I had been meaning to show the video, but it covered topics over a couple of weeks, so it was not a good fit anywhere. Shoe horned it in today, anyway. And to boot, it was a tear jerker.

No actual tears today (have seen them before with this video), but some serious long faces when I dived into the discussion topics after it was over. What was the tear-jerker? The Man Who Knew, a Frontline documentary on FBI agent John O'Neil, who had nearly connected all the dots of the 9/11 plot. Good documentary, but the very definitinition of irony in the end, and incredibly sad irony at that.

I did have a discussion on the relevant issues--organizational culture, interagency and intra-agency conflict, SOP's, goal conflict.

So, okay, maybe I did not earn my keep today. but hopefully the punt will allow me to have more focus on my lectures on unobtrusive and evaluation research. Oh yeah, something about the privilaged position of business tonight. That, and a debate on on bilingual education. Give me an opportunity to whip out some of my mad dissertation knowledge on them young punks.