Tuesday Open Thread
Bookworm on Feb 16 2010 at 3:43 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’m not anywhere my computer and, with the best will in the world, I cannot blog on my iPhone. We’re also listening to Sondheim’s Into The Woods while we drive, and it’s messing with my brain waves. Sondheim has his moments, but I’m not a fan. I find his work busy, but without pleasure. I’m in good company, though, because Mark Steyn doesn’t like him either.
By the way, the dust bowl that is the Central Valley, at least the part that borders the freeway, is depressing. But at least the smelt are happy.
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Hot Button Topics – First week in February according to PEW. It confirms to me that we are living in 4 separate worlds and which one I obviously prefer. Blogosphere World I have no idea what blogosphere the researchers entered for the top 5 – Top 3 below: Anti-abortion (all things Tim Tebow) Healthcare Gay Rights Mainstream Press World(whoever they are) Top 3 below: Economy Toyota recall Haiti Twitter World – a world I have not visited – Top 3 below Gay Rights IPad Twitter Fourth world … Bookworm Room World and sampling below: What is it with this man bowing? Help wanted regarding immigration statistics. What do you get when you cross a Bratz doll with a Smurf? Politics and parenting styles. About the ‘R’ word. How far does a democracy have to go to accommodate minorities. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1493/blogs-twitter-abortion-tebow-commercial-gay-rights-pope
YIKES, my formatting was shot to pieces between preview and post.
Knowing Books fondness for things British, this comes from Hot Air.
“Single mother-of-six finds £2m mansion on the net… and then gets YOU to pay £7,000 a month rent”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250993/Single-mum-finds-mansion-net-gets-YOU-pay-7-000-month-rent.html
So long England, it was nice knowin ya.
That’s not rent – it’s jizya!
Uh-oh… the FDIC is hiring 500 temporary workers . This cannot be a good ‘stimulus’ sign.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-fdic-office-in-town.html
A little theme music … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55NuWQCh78
..to do your reading. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069520491303964.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
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Why “regular” people need to pay attention to what their local school board is doing…
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1971-LOCAL-Government-WASTE-DDR-Now-A-School-Function.html
The Boy(s) that Cried Wolf
If everything is an emergency, how do you determine the real thing? The Dems are ‘junkies’ addicted to spending. Even when they’ve run out of dollars, they stoop to becoming professional pickpockets – OURS!
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/81405-pay-go-gets-passed-then-it-gets-bypassed
One feel good story of the day:
In one Rhode Island town … one Super-superintendent earns a standing ovation from me.
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The school superintendent has responded to the union’s stubbornness by firing every teacher and administrator at the school.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/16/rh-school-superintendent-fires-entire-staff-at-failing-school/
Good article on schools and unions:
http://creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/education-too-important-for-a-government-monopoly.html
Every dog owner knows a pooch can learn the house rules—and when she breaks one, her subsequent groveling is usually ingratiating enough to ensure quick forgiveness. But few people have stopped to ask why dogs have such a keen sense of right and wrong. Chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates regularly make the news when researchers, logically looking to our closest relatives for traits similar to our own, uncover evidence of their instinct for fairness. But our work has suggested that wild canine societies may be even better analogues for early hominid groups—and when we study dogs, wolves and coyotes, we discover behaviors that hint at the roots of human morality.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-ethical-dog