Fall Semester Begins: Bring on the popular culture and politics
The fall semester begins tomorrow at Towson University and I'm very excited to begin teaching my new Towson Seminar -- Popular Culture and Politics: Comedy, Entertainment, Celebrity, and Democracy . In anticipation of the semester, I spoke with The Towerlight , the Towson Campus newspaper about what we'll be doing in the course . In getting ready for the course, it seems that new items are popping up daily. Just today, David Brooks offered his humorous version of the Romney narrative over at The New York Times . As the parent of a young one myself, I found the following portion most funny: Romney was a precocious and gifted child. He uttered his first words (“I like to fire people”) at age 14 months, made his first gaffe at 15 months and purchased his first nursery school at 24 months. The school, highly leveraged, went under, but Romney made 24 million Jujubes on the deal. Usually uber serious in his commentary, it seems that even Brooks has decided to jump on the com