August 2011
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Following the Charter Dollars « Parents Across... →
The charter school reform emerged in part out of a progressive effort to promote innovation that could be used to improve all public schools, and to open up discussion on the relationship between school and community, particularly in urban areas. It was a movement initiated by Ray Budde, a professor at the University of Massachusetts and envisioned as a school that would gain freedom to...
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corporationsarepeople:
And they want to run your...
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“As John Adams famously put it, the United States was intended to be a government...”
– Dahlia Lithwick, on Dick Cheney’s memoir
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““We have no evidence that C.E.O.’s are fashioning, with their executive...”
– - Many US corporations pay their CEO’s more than they pay in taxes (NYT)
Trickle up economics makes the world go ‘round.
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Verizon, who’s pitching a fit worthy of the most hyperactive and poorly-raised 2-year-old over paying most of its workers decent benefits, is on this list.
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Artist-Writer-Artist: Helen Ferguson Crawford →
An interview with Helen Ferguson Crawford on Praeterita:
“Helen Ferguson Crawford is another artist-writer I discovered on Google Plus. Her biographical information describes her as an artist, registered architect, and professor. I was first drawn towards her paintings, with their strong sense of form and sensitive touch. When I went to her blog, I found that these qualities were clearly...
“The way market fundamentalists react to the turmoil that ensues when their ideas...”
– Slavoj Žižek. (via waitingforbrodot)
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Bachmann Staffer Arrested for Terrorism in 2006 →
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Bachmann Staffer Arrested for Terrorism in Uganda in 2006
Says The Atlantic:
The evangelical organizer who helped Michele Bachmann win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa Saturday was previously charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for…
I’m no fan of John Boehner, but I’m really getting tired of jokes about his “orange” skin tone. He’s looked that way his whole life; he just has slightly darker skin than others in his family. So what? It’s just not funny anymore. Give it a rest already. Maybe I’m just a DFH, and I laughed about this one a couple years ago too, but jokes about skin color...
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98% of Florida Welfare Applicants Pass Drug Test,... →
by Jorge Rivas Thursday, August 25 2011, 1:55 PM EST
Florida’s new drug-tests-for-welfare-applicants program just yielded its first batch of results: 98 percent passed. It’ll only cost the state $178 million.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who rode his own fortune and the tea party’s adoration to office last year, has stated publicly several times that people on...
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The problem with 80’s parties at my age is that it’s too easy to think everyone is actually just really out of style.
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not →
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An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into...
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Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in... →
Partners: As the Justice has assumed an influential role on the Roberts Court, his wife has helped lead the public war against the Obama Administration.
Ginni Thomas’s particular target was the health-care-reform law, which was, in her view, clearly unconstitutional. In Atlanta, in April: “I have been writing my congressman, and going to his office. I waited for the August health-care...
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Tales of the Spiky Eye →
So I helped my son set up a website yesterday.
He’s in 2nd grade, and when he was in kindergarten he decided he wanted to design t-shirts and started drawing on his white ones. I helped him scan, sharpen, and upload to a zazzle shop. The spiky eye was his first one, and this weekend we put up the stories behind some of his designs.
I typed his stories and helped pick the theme. Now he...
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“The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an...”
– John Kerry, on MSNBC (via whiporwill)
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She figured it out
Nora, 3: Where are you going?
Joe, 7: Um, somewhere.
Nora: Well who is gonna stay with me?
Joe: Mommy and Daddy.
Nora: Aww.
Joe: Well I'm going somewhere but I don't think I want to tell you.
Nora: Well...I think you're going to China.
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