February 2012
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“Did you know that family income is the single most reliable predictor of student...”
– Diane Ravitch in Do politicians know anything at all about schools and education? Anything?
If you’re interested in such things.
“Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical...”
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Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, writing in his 2005 book It Takes A Family, essentially saying that women have no role in the workplace.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is...
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hey yall: on an unrelated note →
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marieyall:
What is with all these southern people not seeming to know what a pool truck is? And acting like it’s some new/hilarious/ridiculous thing? Where have you been?
But seriously, where? Is it just people who live in…
I’m tempted to get into a discussion about city vs. more rural parts of the South because I find it...
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on an unrelated note
marieyall:
What is with all these southern people not seeming to know what a pool truck is? And acting like it’s some new/hilarious/ridiculous thing? Where have you been?
But seriously, where? Is it just people who live in like, the ‘burbs/Atlanta or do other people really not know about this?
I honestly had never heard of such things until someone (was it you? might have been) posted about...
Watchnpr:
nprmusic:
In honor of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, his daughter invited Jay Farrar (Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-Matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Jim James (My Morning Jacket) to find lyrics from among Guthrie’s archives that spoke to them and put the words to music.
You can feel loneliness and heartache in every note of the Jim James-led “Empty Bed Blues.”...
Watching teacher week on Jeopardy
It sort of worries me that all three teachers didn’t recognize “so it goes” as a famous quote from Vonnegut. I know the show is really more trivia than knowledge (a sort of vague concept), but I mean…c’mon!
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Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992-2011 →
bestrooftalkever:
This feature in New York Magazine is one of the saddest things I have ever read. Danny Chen remains an enigma to me as a young person who openly decides to join the armed forces.
I am amazed that he was able to endure as much torture as he did and I hope that his death has some positive effect on hazing and racism in our military.
fuckyeahexistentialism:
“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers...
Fuck's sake, Skins
isnteverything:
Pick a direction and stick to it. Why give us a season and a half of Mini lusting after Frankie if she’s going to fuck Alo, get knocked up, and forget that she’s struggling with her sexuality?
I’d apologize for the spoilers but this is SO FUCKING STUPID that there really isn’t anything to be spoiled about.
This! A thousand times this! I could write paragraphs of complaints...
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Yikes!
My glasses broke, so now I’m stuck in the back up pair (which keep falling off my face). Not fun. Not fun at all.
Whitney Houston just died.
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BREAKING: Publicist Kristen Foster says singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 12, 2012
Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap. More updates as we get it.
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Things I am absolutely terrible at
Networking. Even the word makes me feel slightly sick. I’ve said all this before, of course, but I’m reminded of it whenever someone sends a request to connect to my woefully incomplete LinkedIn profile.
For all would-be academics. Please reblog widely. →
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phdork:
This may well be the best use of the internet ever: crowd-sourcing adjunct working conditions as way to introduce transparency to and positive pressure on institutions that exploit the holy hell out of their highly skilled and dedicated workers.
Get on it.
$6,800 per 3 crédit course would be heaven since I 1,700 meant forgoing...
Karl Lagerfeld Guest Edits Metro Newspaper →
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womensweardaily:
Karl Lagerfeld sketched himself wearing globe-shaped glasses for the cover of Metro International’s edition today, which he guest edited. He also depicts himself handing out copies of the free daily, dressed, as is his present custom, in a tailcoat.
Is this the one where Karl calls singer Adele “a little too fat”? Because that’s the only thing Adele or any...
Tomorrow is Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
mentalflossr:
Ice cream waffle image via Shutterstock
Here are some other reasons to celebrate this month: 15 Bizarre February Holidays
Will be celebrating. Also: World Nutella Day is Sunday, so prepare yourselves accordingly.