Sayonara, Rev. Paperboy. Make maximum use of improved textbooks : Editorial : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri). Still, the problem remains finding ways for teachers to make really good use of the beefed up textbooks. After all, if they try to teach everything, the amount of material may overwhelm the children’s capacity to absorb it all, consequently returning to the much-criticized “cramming” style of education. Yet teachers are expected to have the competence to proceed with lessons after sorting out what part of the textbooks are to be taught, while accurately gauging the level of their students’ comprehension. ===…
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… coming from the Dopey Strangey thing is even more clueless than usual. UNLOAD! #fb Sarah Palin Tells Tea Partiers To Stop Drivers With Obama Bumper Stickers « Alan Colmes’ Liberaland. Less than a week after a man was driven off the road for sporting an Obama bumper sticker, Sarah Palin told a tea party rally in Searchlight, NV to stop cars with Obama stickers on them. (and demand to know how that “hopey, changey thing” is working out for them)
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A reminder from long ago – Procter and Gamble being accused of Satanism. I remember a neighbor kid’s mom earnestly telling me to let my mom know how to read the Satanist symbolism on a box of Tide. Thing is, I think this was well before 1980, when Snopes and other websites claim the rumor took hold. I remember it in Utah in the mid-70’s… from a lady who I think used and sold Amway products. Hmm. – Salon.com What we have here is less a political than a community mental-health problem. We’ve seen it all before. Paranoia blooms whenever…
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I voted for Scott Lee Cohen, because I am a total idiot. And even though I hang out with political junkies online in Second Life, and constantly read newsfeeds, I failed to educate myself about local political races, and didn’t read the Chicago Tribune’s excellent election special section (because that bit wasn’t in my news feed, and I don’t read the print version anymore). I just left it too late, and on election day, I heard a radio ad (the only commercial station I listen to is WXRT) that made it sound like Cohen was a fresh newcomer with a…
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Palin pops the literary pooper Nov. 17th, but a ghostly midwife will probably fade into the background. 400 pages in 4 months? Really? Sarah Palin finishes 400-page memoir, 'Going Rogue,' to be released Nov. 17 — chicagotribune.com Palin, 45, spent weeks in San Diego shortly after leaving office and worked on the manuscript with collaborator Lynn Vincent, a person close to her said. She was joined in San Diego by her family and her top aide, Meghan Stapleton, then spent several days in New York working around the clock with editors at Harper, said the person, who wasn’t authorized to…
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[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/QJ-CqT5orEI" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] This card was waiting for me when I got home – THANKS, DEBBIE!!! I love it! It was a really early start – I had to be in the office by 7am as I’d switched shifts with someone. And it was my birthday, and it was my day to keep an eye on queues and emails, but of course we were short 2 agents and we had lots of calls, so forget keeping and eye on emails and queues. In the middle of all the chaos, some pretty flowers arrived at my desk, courtesy…
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I just used their website to highlight the “Max Tax” story for several reporters, including David Brancacchio of NPR’s Marketplace. Emptywheel » MaxTax Is a Plan to Use Our Taxes to Reward Wal-Mart for Keeping Its Workers in Poverty Sent via The Spotlight Project
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How “hundreds of thousands” became “tens of thousands” in Washington today. This just in: Bring Reagan Back Now!! (Not That Bush Guy, Apparently).Anti-Government Demonstration Draws Tens of Thousands to D.C. – washingtonpost.com A loud, rambunctious crowd gathered at the foot of the Capitol. Invocations of God and former President Reagan by the speakers got loud cheers, echoing across the Mall. On an overcast and windy afternoon, hundreds of yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flags flapped in the breeze, mingled with U.S. and Texas state flags. “We own the dome,” the crowd chanted loudly, pointing at the Capitol. Most signs were…
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It’s become a confederation of sovereign dunces, fantasizing about forming their own free state and cheering for their media champions, and regurgitating their hysterical screeds, from couches and basements across America. Progressive blog One Utah has been getting a lot of comments on their recent post, “The right has truly gone insaneâ€. Predictably, there’s some crazy stuff to investigate. I’ll look at just one from a contrarian commenter, in a laundry list of statements about Obama administration “czars” (such as FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd) that need a little scrutiny. Science Czar John Holdren has written extensively about forced…
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A video shown to Utah elementary students urges them to pledge allegiance to the united funk of funkadelica. Typical wingnuttery ensues. Parents upset over ‘leftist propaganda’ video – Salt Lake Tribune Gayle Ruzicka, president of conservative Utah Eagle Forum, said the video was blatantly political. She said other offensive pledges included, “I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama,” “I pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of funkadelica,” and pledges to not use plastic grocery bags and not flush the toilet after urinating. “It’s very inappropriate to show a radical, leftist propaganda piece that political to…