Funny there are a bunch of articles floating around this week claiming in large print things like “NASA ADMITS FOSSIL FUELS COOL THE PLANET” seeing these pop up on my feed I thought, that doesn’t seem right, so I…
One of the constant tropes of the conservative populi is some variation of the bread and circus argument. The idea that liberals and Democrats, to lure people to vote for them, will simply offer more freebies to their base so…
In a new op-ed on the Huffington Post, Michelle Rhee goes into a long discussion of the problems with schools in poverty areas: “It’s not easy to complete your homework if your electricity has been cut off, you don’t have…
Lost in much of the talk about our failing economy is the real disparity of income that has existed along racial lines. This is mostly because this information is nothing new. For as long as we have been keeping data…
I got to work later than I wanted to this morning. I was a half an hour behind my schedule because I got sucked into the rabbit hole that is YouTube. No, I wasn’t catching up on cat videos, but…
Accountability is the great buzz word of the new millennium. The powers that be would have you believe that the biggest problem in government is a lack of accountability. They would have you believe that as soon as we have…
For decades public education has been under funded. The schools are under funded in the sense that the increases in funding have not matched the increases in students. There should be no debate about this but I feel the need…
I want you to read something. It’s a PDF of a commencement speech from Hunter high school in New York this year; it truly floored me: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/speech.pdf People are falling over themselves to heap praise on charter schools. They are…
Growing up, i didn’t really appreciate school. Frankly a lot of it always seemed like busy work. Until this morning, I didn’t think there was ever any real reason why I had to read Eugene O’Neill in high school. Today…
Just to pass the day some random stray thoughts Give us vowels or give us death The Kyrgyz are facing political upheaval mostly due to the fact that they have no real vowels in there name. Apparently they are important…