T.V.

Pretty Little Liars
Friday Night Lights
Leverage (Season 1)
Huge
Make It Or Break It
24 (Season 4) 
If You Really Knew Me
Covert Affairs
Coming Out Stories

Movies:

Law Abiding Citizen
Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Dear Zachary
Gracie
Women In Trouble
Alice in Wonderland (SyFy Version)
New Moon
Avatar
The Doctor
Fried Green Tomatoes
2012
Hate Crime
Civic Duty
Witch Hunt
The 24th Day
Blindness
Mulligans


Books:

Handle With Care --- Jodi Picoult

T.V.

Bones
Grey's Anatomy
Private Practice
LOST
Friday Night Lights (Seasons 2 & 3)
10 Thing I Hate About You
Dollhouse (Season 1)
Dexter (Season 3) 
Community
Mercy
Lie To Me (Season 1)


Movies:

The Cutting Edge 3
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
Letters To God
World's Greatest Dad
Awakenings
Save Me
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

T.V.

LOST
Private Practice
Grey's Anatomy
Community
Mercy
Make It Or Break It
Friday Night Lights (Season 1) 
House


Movies:

Passengers
The Taking of Pelham 123 (****)
Gossip
Quarantine
Changling
National Lampoon's Vacation (****)
Hide and Seek (aka Cord)
WarGames (****)
WarGames 2: The Dead Code (****)
The Good Student
Philadelphia (*****)
Nine Dead
The Vanishing
Old Dogs
Deadline
Mama Mia
The Proposal
Seven Pounds
The Breakfast Club
The Dead Zone
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Alice In Wonderland (2010)
Better Than Chocolate (****)
Cape Fear
Sex Drive
My Cousin Vinny


Books:

Helga Kuhse's Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics

Demonstrating that that his mouth is in serious of a filter… After our class discussion on the moral status of a fetus and using terminology such as “the unborn”, etc. and the whole train wreck that tends to go along with that type of a discussion even in a classroom that is surprisingly liberal for its location:

Dr. Wiggins: I wish Tammy had been here for this discussion since she’s a Catholic.

Guy in the back: I’m Catholic

Dr. Wiggins: Well, you didn’t do a very good job of defending the Pope’s view did you?



Discussing how ‘the good life’ varies amongst ‘different kinds’ of people but is not unreachable:

Dr. Kolers: Have you ever noticed how children with Down syndrome seem to be exceptionally kind and happy individuals. Do you ever wonder why that is?

Tina: THEY DON’T HAVE TO TAKE THIS CLASS.

Discussing the experiment mentioned in the Baker article in which people that found a dime in a phone booth were more likely to help a person with dropped papers than one who hadn’t found a dime and how this is disastrous to the concept of virtue ethics, etc. …

Dr. Kolers: …then there was the finding a dime in the phone both experiment. You see, there used to be these things called phone booths…



At the end of Ethical Theory last Tuesday, as we were packing up our things and getting ready to leave, someone brought up the concept of roofies. Dr. Kolers, being the ‘Canadian Jew’ that he is, as Heather so hilariously pointed out earlier in the class session, had no idea what we were talking about. This prompted teasing, of course, but the man honest to God didn’t know what a roofie is. …walking out of the building a few moments later with Tina, Tammy and Allie, this failure of pop culture terminology was the topic of conversation. Someone mentioned Dr. Hanson and Tammy, Allie and I were attempting to fill Tina in on the hilarity that takes place in his classes compared to that which has become a common occurrence in Koler’s class when I provided this little gem:

“…but I’m sure Hanson knows what a roofie is…”



Wherein Alex is assigned the task of e-mailing our finished abstract to Dr. Hanson…

Alex: Dr. Hanson’s e-mail address is Stephen.Hanson@ourschoolisfail.net… yes?
Me: Yup. Real creative, that one.
Sarah Jane: It should totally be ILovePancakes2004



At the end of the Capstone Course session last Wednesday, everyone, as is typical, was hungry. While we were finishing up and assigning work for next time; Dr. Hanson called his wife to discuss their dinner plans. This prompted Alex to inform us all that he wanted a family sized bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken all for himself…which led to Sarah Jane asking him if she could go with him. …actually, Sarah Jane volunteered to go home with anyone that had food, heh. At any rate, the following conversation took place after Hanson got off the phone…

Dr. Hanson: We have to either go out tonight or I have to bring something home. We have an infestation.

Alex: Of coyotes?

Pam: Of course, because that’s so common around here.

Sarah Jane: …once those bastards get in the dry wall you’re finished…

Dr. Hanson: An infestation of carpenters

Pam: Like the ants?

*Sarah Jane and myself nodding in indication that we were thinking the same thing*

Dr. Hanson: No. …although as soon as I said that I knew it’s what you’d be hearing but I decided to just keep talking anyway…

T.V.:

LOST
Make It Or Break It
House
Bones
Grey's Anatomy
Private Practice
Mercy
Community
Dexter (Seasons 1 & 2)
THE OLYMPIC GAMES


Movies:

Dorothy Mills
Extract
How to Be a Serial Killer
I Love You Man
Elsewhere
The Life of David Gale
Hounddog
The Alphabet Killer
Instinct
Lean On Me


Books:

Barbara Ehrenreich's Bait and Switch: The (futile) pursuit of the American Dream