The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
What’s Behind A Temper Tantrum?
Scientists Deconstruct The Screams
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/05/143062378/whats-behind-a-temper-tantrum-scientists-deconstruct-the-screams
I only remember Don throwing a single temper tantrum. He had a melt down in the Harrisonburg Home Dept when he was a couple of years old and was lying …
From a Democrat!
Why the GOP field is so weak
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/08/opinion/carville-gop-field/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
It is a very sad litany, but the really really sad thing is one of these clowns probably has at least a 50% chance of becoming President!…
I haven’t written much about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, I think largely because I am not convinced this leaderless organization with diffused demands can make any impact even if it wasn’t marginalized by the mainstream media. I figured …
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 …