Sonnet 18 in ActionScript

// Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
// by William Shakespeare
// ported to ActionScript 2.0 by Satori Canton
//
// Original poem can be viewed at:
// http://plagiarist.com/poetry/915/

var summer:Object = {};
var thee:Object = {};

summer.name = "Summer Day";
thee.name = "Thee";

summer.lovelyness = 9;
thee.lovelyness = 10;

summer.temperature = 98;
thee.temperature = 98.6;

summer.lease = new Date(2006, 7, 31).getTime() - new Date(2006, 5, 1).getTime();
thee.lease = new Date(2042, 6, 12).getTime() - new Date(1970, 8, 25).getTime();

summer.complexion = 0xFFCC33;
thee.complexion = 0xFFCCCC;

PCC Expose In Chronicle of Higher Education

I was interviewed for an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read it. It's a shocking expose, although I expected it to be even more shocking. My comments were edited to sound much, much more sympathetic to the school and its followers than I am. It's appropriate that the reporter keep a journalistically neutral tone and let the facts speak of the outrage for themselves.

Many of the prospective students will look at the cult depicted in the article as an acceptable or even wonderful educational choice. Nevertheless I believe it will change a lot of undecided minds. It will have been worth it if the article can persuade even one student not to attend. Even if the institution they choose is a religious school, when a student has the kind of religious passion that is willing to consider Pensacola Christian College, they make a great deal of personal growth merely by abstaining from groveling before theocrats. Attendance at an accredited religious college is the most we can expect.

There is much more to be said about my alma mater, but I've said most of it in my essay "Why Not To Attend PCC." I'll make an additional blog post later on with more thoughts about the article.