Thanks to @alexlavidge for pointing me to this report on achievement gaps in the US. Haven’t had time to look at details, but it did jump out at me that we spend more per point on math scores than any other country, yet don’t score the highest. Does that mean money isn’t the answer?
Author: Scott (Page 68 of 80)
Twelve Major Brands That Will Disappear in 2009.
Guess I need to stock up on cheap clothes at Old Navy while I still can. Stuff that was cheap to begin with on sale–that’s my fashion style.
Blue Collar Muse takes CNN to task over Susan Roesgen.
I agree with him that their election coverage was top notch.
…thanks to the people who booed their Republican Congressman at the Greenville, SC Tea Party. Didn’t the crowd get the script and talking points? I mean, they were paid to be there right? </sarcasm>
How about this clown’s resilience? I love how he tries to redirect the boos at the beginning of the speech away from himself and onto the policies and legislation he, uh, supported. After that, it’s the same old Republican script…”It’s all the Democrats’ fault!”
The slit up the leg of the wedding dress and the boots are what make me the most proud. I guess the dress didn’t come in camouflage blaze orange? I ran a quick search to see if I could find a camouflage wedding dress. No luck, but I was able to find other clothing items in camouflage
Both parties can go around screaming “they did it, too” all they want, but that does nothing to add to the debate or address the issue. What is on point is when people look at both parties and say, “they did it to us.”
Heh. The Liberty Papers have a message for bandwidth pirates Rush Limbaugh and FoxNews
At least she has a good sense of humor.
Let’s talk about my Knoxville Tea Party wrap up.
I think this may be the beginning of a trend.
More Americans wary of U.S. tax man this year
“Folks are not paying their taxes because they are spending it on necessary living expenses…”
How dare they! What right do they have to feed, house, and clothe their own families?
So call the seat belt a boon to safety — no doubt true — but credit it too with spurring the modern study of risk compensation, which by now has been observed well beyond the highway—”in the workplace, on the playing field, at home, in the air.” When people perceive greater safety in skydiving, living in flood zones, having unprotected sex or even in high finance, they evidently take more chances.
My friend Jerry had a great idea…replace seat belts with huge metal spikes on steering wheels. Build all cars so that any crash will kill the driver. That will make people much more careful.
It goes along well with my idea of requiring every person on a airplane to be armed. Don’t own a gun? You’ll be handed one right after passing through the metal detector–sixteen in the clip and one in the chamber.
In all seriousness, the risk compensation thing explains why rugby is actually safer than football. With no pads you are a little more careful about what you do with your face and shoulders. That, or you have a very short career.
During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America’s founding fathers paid pirates to protect America’s territorial waters, because they had no navy or coast guard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?
There is no doubt more to this than we are being told. This would make an interesting book.
Well, I didn’t make TechCrunch or BoingBoing, but at least my Twitter account did.
More of the story they are talking about over at NewsTechZilla.
The article calls it a depression era idea, which worries me that they’re trying to stir up the idea that we’re in a depression. People were doing it before–I posted about Berkshares a while back. Sounds like a great idea to me.