January 2011
14 posts
“For some time now, the U.S. has, in effect, been drawing crappy, smiley-face...”
– Elizabeth Kolbert
PSA: Fuck Ben Roethlisberger →
and props to terry bradshaw for saying so
“The bloodbath in Tucson completely obscured a momentous development in Mr. Obama’s executive sphere, when he brought on JP Morgan factotum William Daley as White House Chief of Staff, for Gawdsake, and nobody in the news media so much as coughed into his (or her) sleeve. He also hired recent Goldman Sachs errand boy Gene Sperling to direct the National Economic Council.…
“Last...
“It’s kind of scary to think about how some of these things will affect our students.”
—mi amor, as quoted in today’s Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, on superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard’s proposed “reforms” for the Rochester City School District
“Be careful what you say.”
—her principal, this morning
New Mountain Goats song is good! →
woundedgalaxy:
Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools
I feel like I should post this once a week.
“Guggenheim seems to believe that teachers alone can overcome the effects of student poverty, even though there are countless studies that demonstrate the link between income and test scores. He shows us footage of the pilot Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, to the amazement ...
“The last road car that might legitimately be considered a true Ferrari was the...”
– Brock Yates, Enzo Ferrari
(and nobody can argue with Brock Yates)
Watchthe new destroyer album might be the best music i’ve ever heard
“Today’s US government is almost completely gridlocked – and astonishingly...”
– Sounds awesome!
/via 20 things we learned in 2010 | The Observer
(via Instapaper)
whoooooo! (it’s okay, the chevy volt is gonna turn this all around, just you wait and see)