More on that outrageous educational malpractice in North Carolina.
[Update a few minutes later]
The teacher has been suspended, with pay. She should be canned. I’ll bet this isn’t a first offense, just the first time she got Youtubed.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Today’s Questions For The President
Heh:
Do you and Elizabeth Warren have the same literary agent?
Did you tell your literary agent you were born in Kenya so you’d be invited to a luncheon to meet people like yourself?
Is Elizabeth Warren your composite girlfriend?
Did you and your staff proofread the Obamacare bill as closely as you proofed your bio?
(Thunder)Birds of a feather.
Not A Bank Run
It’s a bank jog, in Greece. Welcome back drachma, and maybe several other European currencies (even eventually including the franc, given the proposed policies of the new socialist president).
Kickstarter Funding Progress
Things got off to a good start late last week, but donations slowed down over the weekend. I’m a little less than a third of the way, at $2160, with a three and a half weeks to go. That’s plenty of time, but I fear that I’ve already plucked all the low-hanging fruit, so spread the word, please.
I’m flying to DC tomorrow to go to the Global Exploration and International space Development conferences, so I may try to get face time with potential larger donors for matching donations. It also might help if folks would comment over there to entice new donors who come across it.
Winning Wars
Can we do it any more?
Not when the leadership of one of the major parties sees US weakness in the world as a feature rather than a bug.
The Unteachables
What our “self-esteem” movement and the public schools have wrought. It’s been over thirty years since that commission on education issued the report that said that if a foreign power had imposed this educational system on us, we would rightly consider it an act of war. It’s true today more than ever.
Send In Your Nominations
…for the first Walter Duranty Prize for journalistic mendacity.
Is Keith Olbermann a journalist? I think that Tom Friedman deserves at least a nomination for his China worship.
The Occupiers At The NATO Summit
…are no match for capitalist pigs like Jonathan Hoenig. Heh.
Mere mockery is too good for them, but it’s too much fun.
Lipids
Interesting, and slightly dismaying. If true, the HDL/LDL ratio isn’t really important; all that really matters is the absolute LDL level. Still, a high ratio and reduction of total would reduce LDL. But the most important takeaway from a dietary standpoint is that you are not what you eat — there is little correlation between cholesterol intake and serum cholesterol. A failure to understand this over the decades has resulted in a lot of terrible dietary advice, including the kind that probably killed my father in the seventies.
The Barbarians Of Chicago
And I’m not just referring to these people:
I’m also referring to the barbarians in public office there (and DC, and New York) who defy Constitution and the Supreme Court, and the age-old right of the law-abiding to arm and defend themselves, because they willfully enable the barbarism.