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11.28.05

teaching challenge

Try thoroughly conveying the rhetorical significance of Bootsy Collins and/or Parliament/Funkadelic/P-Funk to a roomful of extraordinarily white midwest college students. Bonus points if your ethos is already wrecked due to the fact that you yourself are also rather caucasian (but, in spite of this shortcoming, a fan of the aforementioned). Extra bonus points if you also cover George Clinton or the concept of the Mothership.

I award myself not so many points for my recent attempt at this. At least it was only a small part of my lesson plan.

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George Bush
Bill Clinton

How much better the world might have been if you'd had George Clinton instead.