Archive for
September 2011
Sep 7 / 4:24pm
The supercommittee’s K Street connections - The Washington Post
Nearly 100 former aides to members of the new budget-cutting "supercommittee" now work as K Street lobbyists, often representing clients with a vested interest in the panel's decisions. A half dozen former lobbyists are also currently employed by the lawmakers. The connections mean that many lobbyists are now trying to convince their former employers to go easy on their corporate clients.
Sep 7 / 4:19pm
Koch Brothers declare "the mother of all wars" on Democrats.
We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother host twice a year. The 2012 elections, he warned, will be "the mother of all wars.
via motherjones.com
Sep 6 / 4:34am
...And this is why teacher-training & Educational "theory" is such mind-numbing fluff.
Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
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Do you see the disconnect here? Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor.
Sep 5 / 6:23am
The GOP War on Voting | Rolling Stone Politics
In a systematic campaign orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council – and funded in part by David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who bankrolled the Tea Party – 38 states introduced legislation this year designed to impede voters at every step of the electoral process.
via rollingstone.com
Sep 5 / 6:15am
Google Correlate is Google Trends in reverse.
Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a series of its frequency (over time, or in each US state). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern.
via google.com
Sep 4 / 2:41pm
How football helped me to live with depression | The Guardian
Good as it sounds in theory to be a Manchester United fan, guaranteed to collect at least one piece of silverware each season, there doesn't seem to be much joy to be found there. One regulation win after another, with no one really needing to break sweat. Least of all the supporters. Where's the fun in that? Indeed, in a moment of weakness, my mate Kevin the Bright – he is very bright, despite being a Chelsea fan – recently confessed he rather missed the old days at Stamford Bridge, when his side was slipping to a home defeat to QPR on a crap pitch in front of a crowd of about 25,000, because then he was at least aware he was alive and watching a contest and not just a cog in a corporate machine bankrolled by a Russian oligarch.
via guardian.co.uk
Sep 1 / 8:39am
