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What Are You, Illiterate? - Pullout - Back to School - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
"Are you reading Atlas Shrugged? Don't you know it'll turn you into an asshole for at least two years? When you're college-age and your parents are paying for everything, you're likely to be a big believer in people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Ayn Rand appeals to your age group for that reason, but the problem is, once you actually have to pay your own way, bootstrap-pulling gets a whole fuck of a lot harder, and Rand sounds more and more like a creepy Republican. If you're over 25 and you still think her books are great, you're (a) white and (b) an asshole."
DCblog: On aren't I
A discussion of where the technically erroneous locution "aren't I" might have come from. Very fascinating.
Twitter posts cheering George Tiller's killer
A few examples: "UPDATE... Doctor George Tiller was aborted today in his 204th trimester - aren't paybacks a bitch," (Punch), "oh HAPPY DAY! Tiller the baby killer is DEAD!" (Samantha Pelch), "George Tiller the baby killer was shot dead this morning. God bless the gunmen who hopefully won't be caught" (readnwatchchris, Creedmor. NC), "was George Tiller the baby killers brain scrambled the way he scrambled full term fetuses.. one can only hope" (Brad S), "Infamous baby killer George Tiller gunned down at (irony) church. Why do I not feel sorry for him? Have fun at Judgment Day." (James Fiddler). Via Ayse's Tumblr.
Teaching for the Future - Open Source Alternatives for the K-12 Windows User
Another great list of open-source teaching resources.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Closing Down Main Street
TomDispatch's Nick Turse on the plummeting fortunes of small towns across the U.S. It's a very, very depressing read. Thank you to Bufflehead Cabin for pointing me to this bummer-fest (http://sn.im/cgukx).
Bible put on top shelf in move to appease Muslims - Telegraph
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Some critics have expressed concern that the books will now just be treated as
objects to revere rather than books to read.
Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank told The Daily Mail: "Libraries
and museums are not places of worship. They should not be run in accordance
with particular religious beliefs.
"This is violating the principles of librarianship and it is part of an
insidious trend.- This is the key issue, I think: what is a book -- an valued object, or a source of information? And what is a library -- a treasury of valued and honored objects, or a utiliarian repository of data? - on 2009-02-21
Lee Iacocca, "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" (NY: Scribner, 2007) - book excerpt
Lee Iacocca says throw the bums out. Via http://snipr.com/3bwg8. "Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy."
FFFOUND!: bookmark your cool images
Sweet social-bookmarking site for images. I think it's Japanese. Via http://snipr.com/1n8lf.
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