The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
What real education reform looks like
Teachers unions aren’t the problem. Poverty and punitive funding formulas for poor schools are
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/what_real_education_reform_looks_like/singleton/
Staggeringly obvious, to me at least. If a school has comparatively fewer funds, it does a comparatively poorer job …
Whose army is it?
The 99 percent has become dangerously removed from the military-industrial complex that controls our remote wars
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/whose_army_is_it/singleton/
I guess there are some small upsides to a draftee army, at least the 1% have to make a …
US: Edging closer towards war with Iran?
The biggest problem for the US is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, but getting it and not using it.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/12/201112411011569936.html
What am amazing thing! In order to get clear …
The higher ed bubble is bursting, so what comes next?
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/12/sunday-reflection-higher-ed-bubble-bursting-so-what-comes-next/1969376
I like this quote best:
……homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc.
Tech firm wants to ban office e-mail
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/05/tech/web/atos-office-e-mail-ban/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
I have never tweeted and never expect to (as you dear readers no doubt know already, I can’t even say ‘Hello’ in 160 words or less) and find text messaging (at least …
Police state this, police state that, I run on and on and on about it. I will probably finally stop droning on about it at some point because I will be arrested for having droned on so much about it, …
Well, I guess it was already dead…
Teen stopped at airport for design on purse
17-year-old missed flight to Jacksonville after agents inspected gun replica
http://www.news4jax.com/news/Teen-stopped-at-airport-for-design-on-purse/-/475880/4858586/-/qijcv5/-/
We might as well have robots running the checkpoints since it seems that humans …