StickWithANose

You see, it works like this: Poor people benefit from Walmart’s ability to push down prices on its suppliers which leads to the out-sourcing of jobs and unemployment which creates more poor people who benefit from Walmart’s ability to push down prices on its suppliers…  Simple really….

Flush with success in utilizing an economic disaster to ram through corporatist education policies, Pres. Obama announced today that he intends to make his ‘Race to the Top’ nightmare a permanent feature of the Department of Education by requesting an additional $1.34 billion in funding for continuing the program.
President Barack Obama will seek $1.35 billion [...]

Dr. King must surely be rolling over in his grave…
It is ironic, at least, that today on Martin Luther King Day, the Governor of Massachusetts, an African-American himself, signed an education bill that assures the continued intensification of resegregation of American schools and the renewed oppression of minority children in the poorest neighborhoods of the [...]

Here’s one to file away for the next time you encounter a talk radio listener making noise about federal deficits and “entitlement” cuts: Angry Bear
[L]et us suppose that Krasting were right (he is not) and that we have depleted the [Social Security] Trust Fund. Would this be a catastrophe? Would Social Security be “broke.” Would [...]

You would think that the meeting of these two minds would have caused some irreparable tear in the time-space continuum. Alas, all that we get for sitting through this most painful of interviews is vague references to changing an ambiguous “system” that is never quite defined just as how these two public intellectuals fit, or [...]

Looks like the only way to motivate the children of the bourgeois to take to the streets is when they feel betrayed by a football coach…
Sad, really… With all that is wrong with the world you would think that the hope and idealism of the young would be an active force in politics, but the [...]

I was not alone in condemning Google in 2006 for agreeing to censor search results in order to gain access to that long-time fetish of corporate America: the Chinese market. For a supposedly new kind of corporation bandying about the slogan “don’t be evil“, the agreement to censor search results cut to the core of [...]

I’ve noted here previously the next piece of anti-scientific legislation moving its way through our esteemed congress: the LEARN Act. It is the continuation of GW’s education policies through and through, and it has no empirical basis to justify the kind of structure curricula is seeks to codify into law. I urge each and every [...]

First up, Pirate Hominids!
Low Down on the Jobs Report
Neanderthal Body Paint?
Labor Push-back on Health Care Reform
Six Questions on Yemen
Anthropology at War
China is not a super-power
Watching Timmy Cry…

Happy Birthday No Child Left Behind!
After pushing through this disaster of a leveling program which has ensured that all kids are treated the same, whether they can barely read or are ready for a college-level curriculum, [Bush] dropped it like a steaming bag of poo, leaving it spread across the country like explosive diarrhea.
And yet [...]