Archive | September 2010
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Say what?
Gail Collins has apparently never heard how difficult it is to get a bad public school teacher fired: In his new film, the American Federation of Teachers, a union, and its president, Randi Weingarten, seem to be playing the role of carbon emissions. The movie’s heroes are people like the union-fighting District of Columbia schools [...]
Stoking racist paranoia, Limbaugh-style
On Sunday night’s telecast of the Dolphins-Jets game NBC aired a commercial in Spanish, sending Rusty Limbo into full Cassandra mode: RUSH: I ought to do a monologue about this. I think this is symptomatic of a whole bunch of things that are happening on our culture, the feminization of our culture. I see it [...]
A bad (or is it good) year for celebrity deaths
Notice how few famous people have died this year? Dennis Hopper, Rue McClanahan, Gary Coleman, Corey Haim, Boner from “Growing Pains,” the lead singer from LFO, the psychic from “Poltergeist” … that’s about it.
Who needs solutions when we’ve got problems?
As you’d expect, the Republicans’ Pledge to America is light on specifics and, admits John Boehner, absent any solutions. WALLACE: Congressman Boehner, as Willie Sutton said about banks, entitlements are where the money is. More than 40% of the budget. Yet, I’ve looked through this pledge and there is not one single proposal to cut [...]
Teachers unions can’t handle accountability
National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked by their effectiveness in raising student test scores. “It is the height of journalistic irresponsibility to make public these deeply flawed judgments about a teacher’s effectiveness,” said a [...]
What’s worse: Beating dogs or beating women?
Chris Brown beats the hell out of his girlfriend, escapes with a slap on the wrist, plays the victim and is quickly forgiven by the suck-up entertainment media and a culture that doesn’t take domestic violence seriously enough. Michael Vick tortures dogs (an awful thing, no doubt), serves prison time, makes a concerted effort to [...]
Watch a wannabe McCarthyite squirm
What a bitch! Congressional candidate Renee Elmers (R-N.C.) distorts facts and history to score cheap political points, making the proposed Park51 mosque near Ground Zero the centerpiece of her campaign. Unable to answer Anderson Cooper’s tough questions, she retorts: “Are you anti-religious?” No, ma’am, but your fear-mongering is anti-American, though, sadly, it may prove effective.
David and the LongFellow
Bishop Eddie Long compares himself to David. Remember in the Bible when David rammed Goliath with a Bentley. http://bit.ly/9cnLkl about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by 1 person andishehnouraee
Where’s the accountability?
I can’t help but enjoy all the wailing and gnashing of teeth from UGA fans following last night’s embarrassment in Starkville. Get your schadenfreude fix at DawgPost.
Starving rhino looks for shade
Another bleak reminder of the zoo that was, courtesy of Atlanta Time Machine:
