I just saw a list of the fifty US states, ranked in order of the quality of their public school systems.
I thought I’d color the list in for you. (View the full article if this doesn’t show up in color in your blog reader.)
States with the smartest schools at the top:
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Vermont
New Jersey
Wisconsin
New York
Minnesota
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Montana
Maine
Virginia
Nebraska
New Hampshire
Kansas
Wyoming
Indiana
Maryland
North [...]
Driving home this evening I heard a short piece on All Things Considered about how the New York Times ran a correction on a obituary that ran 13 years ago.
Here’s the summary:
On Monday, The New York Times ran a correction on the obituary it published for the late William G. McLoughlin. McLoughlin died in [...]
Simply amazing! I can’t believe I got this transcript before Al Jazeera did.
I bring to you an excerpt from a speech given no more than two hours ago by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, self-proclaimed leader of the resistance to the American occupation in Iraq.
From al-Zarqawi:
We have more work to do, and there will be tough [...]
I just saw this over at Russell Beattie’s site. Now, I don’t read regularly read a paper that carries Boondocks, but when I do, I find it to be one of the more spot on and intelligent strips out there.
Here’s today’s strip:
Funny, right?
Well, too bad you won’t see it if you read the Chicago [...]
Who says computers aren’t capable of intelligent thought?
My co-worker (the Mrs. Grumpy Gamer) noticed this on Google News a few minutes ago.
[M]y fellow Americans, my invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost thousands of lives, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and provided a recruiting boon to Al Qaeda across the world.
I [...]
There are a million things a person can say right now. But perhaps the best response is one of breathless optimism.
Perhaps, now that George W. Bush is freed up from the considerable burden of marathon campaigning, he will have more time to spend with his economic, domestic, and international advisors. He will be able to [...]
I just had this wonderful mental picture of an Army Sergeant, veins bulging out of his tree-trunk neck, standing over a prostrate, 20-year-old George W. Bush, screaming “I don’t give a shit who your daddy is, maggot! Now drop and give me 20!!”
Of course, it was the National Guard, not the Army. And they did [...]
Oh, I almost forgot to mention my new favorite site. My father pointed this out to me a few weeks ago. Electoral-Vote.com shows a quasi real-time map of the United States that indicates, based on recent poll information, the likelihood that either Kerry or Bush will carry a particular state’s electoral votes. Right now it [...]
Matt Drudge is running an exclusive on Dennis Hastert’s reported call to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. Hastert will apparently “push for replacing the nation’s current tax system with a national sales tax or a value added tax.”
Interestingly, I’m not entirely opposed to this idea. I think there is tremendous waste in government, particularly when [...]
As news is beginning to break worldwide (though not registering at all domestically, funny that) about how the United States has been not only torturing prisoners in Iraq, but torturing children in Iraq, I am trying to find the words to describe the situation.
Wait, I know this… They are on the tip of my [...]
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