The world dominated by humans operates outside of our frame of reference. No matter how hard you try it’s hard to think about the muddle when you are surrounded by it. It thinks you. Forgive…
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Palm Beach County School Board Considering Shady Charter School Applications
What do Florida and Indiana have in common? They are both laboratories for the New America. Which explorer in history did the most damage to an indigenous population? Pick any one, right? When the pirates…
United in Dissent: A Platform Against Corporate Technocracy
This is a skeleton key. Please use it; if for nothing else but to open up to this author the errors of his thinking. It is a beginning, but in urgency. “Going Local” is an…
Betrayal Merits the Deepest Pit: John Gregg Supported by Corporate Ed Reform Funders
Doug Martin offers an open letter to Indiana gubernatorial candidate John Gregg. Calling himself a democrat–what we might now call the Secular Corporate Party if we’re trying to “define terms” (for you bobby v)–Gregg is…
The Flavors of Our Mindless Totality
Okay, here’s what we now have for political parties. I base this on the two things I’m most aware of: the privatization movement in education (long-standing but now on the brink of take-over) and our…
Travels with Tony; Race to Coerce; ALEC as Paramilitary State; Land of Goshen Teaching “science”
Here’s a bit of a news round-up from stories picked off the Doug Martin Wire Service. The number one story is kind of a jaw-dropper for me out of Goshen, Indiana. Tim Thiery, the author…
Parent Revolution: Not Your Parents, Not a Revolution
INDIANA CORPORATE SCHOOL UPDATES FOR JANUARY 22, 2012 Once again, ISTA’s Nate Schnellenberger wishy-washes around fighting off the Indiana corporate school reformers, this time in response to the fake parent trigger bill. Nate says “We think…
The Keynote: Everything Was Fact
From Chapter V of Dickens’ Hard Times. THE KEYNOTE. COKETOWN, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind…
120 Years Too Late
William Morris in an 1896 address to the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising: Next, we have to remember that the enormous majority of the people of the country do not care one…
You Say Sharia, I Say Shulchan Aruch and Ave Maria
This post, “English Citizens Increasingly Turning To Sharia Courts,” by noted Law Prof. Jonathan Turley is a little short (well a lot) short on substance but it basically says many Muslims in England are “circumventing the…