Archive for 'General'
Not Too Big To Fail… Too Big To Exist
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under General.
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Billionaires for Wealthcare
Posted: August 31st, 2009 under General.
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Programming Note
Stick is on the road….
Posted: August 8th, 2009 under General.
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Links 7/27
Many Charters Are Now Unionizing: NYTimes
EdWeek States the Obvious:‘Race to Top’ Guidelines Stress Use of Test Data
Marketing Research Is Becoming Increasingly Sophisticated: NYTimes
The Kurdistan Issue May Pull Us Back Into Iraq: Juan Cole
Become A Libertarian! Wired
Taco Bell Goes Green: America’s Finest News Network
The Pickering Diaries: Harpers
Posted: July 26th, 2009 under General.
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Links 7/22/09
It is Make It or Break It Week: Lykins
Ignore him at your own risk . . . Barry Ritholtz
The Ugliness of For-Profits: Education Optimists
Why is it that we should care what Bill Gates has to say about education? Schools Matter
Losing the Moral High Ground: Juan Cole
Updating Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics: Wired
Big Estimate on Bailout [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under General.
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Social Security Deficits & Wealth Polarization
The dirty little secret behind all of the political machinations over the un-funded liabilities of Social Security is that there is an easy fix to the whole mess: raise the cap on payroll taxes. With the wealthiest Americans now taking home a third of all income, the amount of income that exceeds the SS wage [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under General.
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Links 7/14/09
On the Mythology of Adam Smith’s Political Economy: prosebeforehos
Hey EdWeek, the Overall Trend is Flat: NAEP
The Dismal Science will never leave Crazy Land: Economist’s View
Save Dragon Tank Jobs: Lawyers, Guns & Money
More evidence of High Teacher Turnover in Charters: Schools Matter
Using the Madness of Ayn Rand to talk about the Decline of Popular Discourse: Gin [...]
Posted: July 14th, 2009 under General.
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GTT
As many a good Tennessean has said before me: Gone To Texas!
The Stick Institute will return on the 29th! Happy Summer Solstice!
Posted: June 19th, 2009 under General.
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Note To Friends
The next time Stick loudly proclaims: “To the wine bar!” followed by a regal hand clap… Cut him off! [Physical restraint acceptable]
Head hurts too much to even consider making a real post…. See you tomorrow.
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under General.
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Links 6/8/09
Educational Bribery in Action: Tennessean
Advocate of Arbitrary Torture Shows Lack of Ethics: LGM [aka. A primer on why people blog under a pseudonym.]
Selling Computers in China Means Selling Soul: NYT
What’s Wrong with Financial Television: CJR
How to Fix Financial Television: Big Picture
What’s Wrong with Financial Television [redux]: Big Picture
1984: Wired
Posted: June 8th, 2009 under General.
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