Jerry’s Blog–Because Wit Happens

The “sweded” version of Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER, by a French director. Could you ask for anything weirder?

Well, I’m headed back to New Orleans–this time to watch son Clint graduate from Tulane.

Meanwhile, here’s the trailer for a new documentary on New Orleans presented by Wynton Marsalis. Looks great!:

A new movie coming out from the Christian Right Crazies:

THE FIRST TIME THAT principal Jim Sporleder tried the New Approach to Student Discipline at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, he was blown away. Because it worked. In fact, it worked so well that he never went back to the Old Approach to Student Discipline. This is how it went down:

A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly:

“Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?” He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?” [Rest of article]

Only one selection today and I’m not particularly enthused about it. Actually, I think that’s because I’m crabby over an opportunity that I see I missed. Back on Dec. 7th, I mentioned having had some interest in Tata Motors (TTM), but not enough to actually pull the trigger on it. It has pretty much doubled in the 5 months since then. Oh, well…

My lukewarm recommendation today is Aircastle LTD (AYR), which acquires, leases, and sells aircraft to the passenger and cargo plane industries.

Tata for now. (Groan…)

I have posted several times on the blog about one of my favorite planets. This is a pretty cool video–I’d recommended clicking through to the actual Vimeo site for a larger format. (And I did have some trouble with it “buffering” slowly…):