Archive for January, 2011
Rick Santorum And The Fertility Clinic Conundrum
Blogger Mike Stark called into Bill Bennett’s radio show when Rick Santorum was hosting and posed the fire in the fertility clinic question.
Civility Watch
Civility watch is an occasional series to assess our new era of civility in politics.
Tony Bagels and the Rest of the Mob
Seems that there was a big round-up of suspected Mafiosi the other day. I don’t think these were your Tony Soprano types. These guys were allegedly the real deal. In my childhood neighborhood, the local rackets were run by the Smalldone brothers, Eugene (“Checkers”), Clarence (“Chauncey”, and Clyde (“Flip-Flop”). I met Checkers and Chauncey a […]
Jason’s 3 Simple Ways to Create Jobs in Delaware & 2 Simple Bonus Ways to Create Jobs in America – Part 2
So here are items #2 & #3 for creating more jobs in Delaware. (Get thee to your fainting couch teabaz.)
Jason’s 3 Simple Ways to Create Jobs in Delaware & 2 Simple Bonus Ways to Create Jobs in America – Part 1
Ever since Jack Markell’s State of the State Address, I’ve been trying to think of ways the government could leverage its resources to create jobs. The internet was not much help. For example I found teabagger now Senator Marco Rubio’s “23 Simple Ways” to create jobs. 9 of the first 10 simple ideas involve shoving money into the pockets of wealth people and hoping they hire another housekeeper.
That plays well for the misanthropic Florida geezers who he represents, but bitter experience tells us that tax cuts are not the magical job creating unicorn that conservatives still imagine them to be. SO what then?
Books Will Be Very Rare in Schools in Less Than Ten Years
Not because every school will be like St. E’s with its new IPad lab. And not because all schools will be issuing lap tops to their students (although many will). But when broadband is ubiquitous, and schools stop being concerned about what screens (smart phone, lap top, eReader, desktop) students use to access their lessons […]
More proof that the internet is the most awesome thing ever!
The Awesome Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is given upfront in a paper bag full of cash by a group of ten self-organizing “micro-trustees,” who form autonomous chapters around geographic areas or topics of interest. The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports.
Parents who won’t vaccinate their kids should pay MUCH higher insurance premiums
Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing links pediatrician Rahul K. Parikh, writing on CNN: Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially […]
** UPDATED** Whoa. Keith Olbermann Announces His Resignation
Keith Olbermann just announced that today was his last show.
Tatooine
You know, maybe all this 2012 End Times talk was not far off the mark. So yesterday, I seen an article on the Huffington Post about the Earth getting two suns. One of my favorite “childhood” movies was 2010, the little known sequel to the classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In “2010,” the big black […]
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