In every real sense, the Chicago teacher's strike was as much an attempt to arrest the tightening grip of oligarchy as anything that ever happened in Zuccotti Park.
A Cow Dung Festival Queen is selected - not perhaps an accolade you would readily put on your list of accomplishments. Then there is the highlight of the day - cow dung bingo. A field is divided into squares. When names are gathered and bets placed, Betsy - the festival cow - is ushered in.…
Pointer Pointer website points at your cursor - Crave
Pointer Pointer is quite possibly one of the most useless websites we've ever seen…
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Early apple buds means early pickings across Southern Tier | Shreveporttimes
I saw this headline and I thought it was a story about headphones.
US media angrily marvels at the lack of Muslim gratitude | Glenn Greenwald | guardian.co.uk
One prominent strain shaping American reaction to the protests in the Muslim world is bafflement, and even anger, that those Muslims are not more grateful to the US.
While on vacation in the beautiful state of Alaska, 16-year-old Kate Curtis caught a giant halibut.
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Renée Zellweger stars in this remake of a 1956 rock & roll comedy about killjoy adults trying to ban a teen-dance TV show. This update, made as part of Showtime Cable's Rebel Highway series, is similarly set during rock's late-'50s primordial beginnings.
Obama’s Double-Speak at the DNC » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
In this well-crafted, though wholly misleading statement, Obama strongly suggests that the Taliban attacked us on 9/11. This is, of course, not true. The Taliban never attacked us. Their only crime was to insist upon proof of Osama bin Laden’s culpability for the 9/11 attacks before handing him over to the U.S. (And, the Taliban’s request in this regard was not purely academic. Thus, as explained in a little-known article in the Ithaca Journal by Ed Haas — so unknown that it won the Project Censored Award — the FBI admitted that it never included the 9/11 attacks in Bin Laden’s “Ten Most Wanted” rap sheet because the FBI had “no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”).
The idea of posting or finding jobs online isn’t new. Craigslist, the pioneering Internet bulletin board, allowed the primitive, gentle folk of the 1990s to find day work, not to mention cheap dates. These new services are different…
Fed Announces New Round of Bond Buying to Spur Growth - NYTimes.com
The Fed said that it would add $23 billion of mortgage bonds to its portfolio by the end of September and then announce its plans for October as part of a new process that aims to prioritize the Fed’s economic objectives.
Can you spell "fat chance"?
OK, maybe it's been going on all this time and I just didn't notice. That's possible. I could miss something like that. But still. It's weird.
Speaking of weird, here's a weird update: Portland went with the fluoride, I understand. Which just might make this town here, where I live, the only town anywhere that still doesn't have it. What would we want with one of the great public health advances of the 20th Century anway?
We're pretty much against everything here, which is why everybody in town has to drive 20 minutes (in any direction) to get to Walmart. We're against having one here. And other stuff.
The Bears are supposed to play the Packers tonight, on a Thursday. I still don't get that. They played on Sunday, didn't they? (Answer: The Bears did and I don't care about the Packers except in the playoffs when there are no Bears. which is pretty often. Deal with it.)
Come to think of it, let's get it on. Go Bears.
Chicago Teacher Strike - Let's Strike Against People Who Don't Like Teachers - Esquire
If I have to read one more smug, Ivy League writer from Slate talking, as the big strike goes on, about public-school teachers as though they were unruly hired help, I may hit someone with a fish.
"On, Wisconsin"…
President Obama's re-election campaign on Tuesday added Wisconsin to its list of targeted states.
[But] just as Mr. Romney’s views on some other issues evolved over the years, his public assessments of the Vietnam War shifted markedly.
His pro-war sympathies at Stanford changed four years later, when he recanted and called the war a mistake.…
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3 college cheerleaders use their martial arts know-how to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extra curricular activities a secret in order to make it into an Ivy League school.
What Are Your Chances of Catching Bubonic Plague? - Spring Valley, SC Patch
So here's an article involving the Colorado girl who recently came down with Bubonic Plague that helpfully notes the symptoms of that disease:
Fever Headache Chills Decreased appetite
Wait. You mean it's not just a cold I have, it's the BLACK FREAKIN' DEATH???
Remind me quit reading this "internet" thing.
Wikipedia told Philip Roth he’s not “credible source” on book he wrote | Ars Technica
American novelist Philip Roth is so famous that there's a Wikipedia page about his life and numerous Wikipedia articles about individual books he's written. But by the sometimes strict editing process enforced at the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia, Roth himself was recently unable to fix what he calls a glaring error in the Wikipedia page about his novel The Human Stain.…
When Roth tried to give Wikipedia the true origins of the novel, he says he was told by a Wikipedia administrator on Aug. 26 "that I, Roth, was not a credible source."
Chicago Tribune - Front Page - Amtrak passenger numbers surge in Illinois
The number of people using Amtrak rail service in Illinois jumped by 5.5 percent over the last 11 months.
We're still waiting for the High Speed Train From Vermont. We have our station built and everything. In fact, all we need now are the tracks.
Think New England cargo cult.
Public Policy Polling has a new survey suggesting that six percent of Ohioans, and 15 percent of Ohio Republicans, think Mitt Romney "deserves more credit" for the killing of Osama bin Laden than Barack Obama.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American and NATO training missions in Afghanistan have told United States government investigators that more than four years of financial records covering about $475 million worth of fuel purchases for the Afghan National Army may have been shredded, raising concerns about potential fraud.
