Germany is going to jail people for video game violence. Will they also send them off to reeducation camps?
Expect some loony legislator to attempt to do the same thing here.
A Novel Approach
Rick Brookhiser has an alternative plan to Jim Baker’s–kill the enemy.
Abolish The Education Degree
That’s been my position for years, and Andrew Ferguson agrees, in this piece on the miserable state of math education in the US:
Mr. Levine’s research shows that even the students themselves know how weak their programs are. Sixty-two percent of ed-school alumni say their training didn’t prepare them to “cope with the realities of today’s classrooms.” Surveys show that school principals agree.
What’s to be done? A constructive fellow, Mr. Levine spends considerable time showing what works in the nation’s exemplary education schools. There are some. The examples are so compelling they just might shame other universities into following their lead, removing a major obstacle to educational improvement in America.
Education schools, for example, shouldn’t treat “education” as a major in itself. Good education schools, Mr. Levine finds, require their students to master a given subject
Doomed?
Is the end of the Euro in sight? I’m actually surprised that it’s lasted this long.
A Tough Woman
Go give your best wishes to the fun and funny Cathy Seipp (and her daughter Maia), who has a not-so-fun-and-funny problem–she has been fighting a long battle with lung cancer, but is still hanging in there, and still blogging.
Slow Down, You Go Too Fast
Jane Galt writes about speed reading. I’m a fast reader also, and find it frustrating and painful to have to read something aloud–the baud rate is just too low.
Kofi Talk
Iowahawk has dredged up the first draft of Kofi Annan’s deranged US-bashing speech.
First, in today’s world we are all responsible for each other’s security. Against such threats as nuclear proliferation, climate change, global pandemics or terrorist accountants plotting UN audits from their safe havens in failed superpowers, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over others, and their private financial records. Only by working together can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves, and perhaps a nice comfortable villa in Switzerland. Let
What Does Success Look Like?
“Neo” has some troubling thoughts on the nature of twenty-first-century warfare, defining what winning is, and whether we’re capable of doing what must be done to win.
The Allende Myth
With Pinochet now in the grave, Vladimir Dorta republishes his 2003 historical essay on Chile and the fantasies of the left.
If Only…
…more Muslims had this man’s attitude:
We are all creatures of passion. This fiasco has stirred the passionate cry of victimization from the Muslim activist community and imam community. But where were the news conferences, the rallies to protest the endless litany of atrocities performed by people who act supposedly in my religion’s name? Where are the denunciations, not against terrorism in the abstract, but clear denunciations of al-Qaida or Hamas, of Wahhabism or militant Islamism, of Darfurian genocide or misogyny and honor killings, to name a few? There is no cry, there is no rage. At best, there is the most tepid of disclaimers. In short, there is no passion. But for victimization, always.
Only when Americans see that animating passion will they believe that we Muslims are totally against the fascists that have hijacked our religion. There is only so much bandwidth in the American culture to focus upon Islam and Muslims. If we fill it with our shouts of victimization, then the real problems from within and outside our faith community will never be heard.
Until his voice becomes the dominant one heard from, instead of those of the terrorism sympathizers like CAIR, there’s little hope of solving the problem.