Let’s start off with Ten Important News Stories That The Media Doesn’t Cover.
New study suggests that public school students do just as well on math tests as private school students, once they unleveled the playing field by adjusting for background and used a small enough sample size. I think what this study shows is that the government can prove anything it wants to prove badly enough. See also: global warming, War on Terror.
Compare and contrast, 50 points, essay question: “US plans to ‘fight the net’ revealed” dealing in “information operations,” versus Congressional staffers re-write Wikipedia entries to suit their bosses. Exceptional answers may be submitted to Wikipedia.
Next up, Most Americans think President Bush’s eavesdropping plan is a risk to their civil liberties. Also they think that by the end of the Bush Administration, the economy will be the same or worse, the health care system will be the same or worse, and the Federal budget deficit will be bigger.
Grim reading on the fact that if Roe v. Wade falls, abortions will not stop just because they may be illegal. Wealthy women will always be able to get one, and poor women will die trying. The way to prevent abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
How many years have we been told that the key to getting ahead in this increasingly knowledge and skills based economy is to go out there and get the best education we possibly can? Yeah right! An alarming number of people who took that advice are buried under “another mortgage” worth of student load debt.
And on a final, happier note — pun intended — Jukkou-san brings us the Virtual Armonica.
Ahh, fifteen minutes? thank you SW thank you Mr. Warhol! I’d also like to thank the members of the academy…
oh yeah… I’d like to commend the gov (of WA) for her appointment of Billy Frank Jr. to the commission aimed at curbing Puget Sound Pollution. (perhaps too little too late given the “new” hypothesis about the global warming “tipping point.” but at least there is lip service for change…