The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Is it time to embrace climate change?
Some scientist believe we’ve already created a new geological epoch — and it may not be a bad thing
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/is_it_time_to_embrace_climate_change/singleton/
Reading the comments was quite instructive. It seems the clear tilt is against …
I don’t like to endlessly post from the same site because then it looks like I only spend my time on a single site all day. Thus, as much as I like the site Cracked.com I don’t want to clutter …
Poll: Voters want to throw ’em out
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/09/poll-voters-want-to-throw-em-out/?hpt=hp_bn3
Sounds like a clear referendum on Congress, eh?
……76 percent of voters said most members of Congress do not deserve to be re-elected, the highest percentage Gallup measured in 19 years of
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 …
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 …
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, …