Yesterday, our Sunday paper ran a usual column. Our paper reserves Sundays for the opinions of luminaries and liars–it depends on your point of view how you might class these scriveners of quotidian hierarchy. This…
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Noble Charter School Network’s Taking It To The Bank
When word recently broke that Chicago’s Noble Network of Charter Schools was raking in $386,745 over the last three years by charging students fees for everything from chewing gum to not looking teachers in the…
Tenure Perches in the Soul
I. “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the…
Calling the Police or Pointing the Gun
Or, If your white and wealthy, do both. Then call your lawyer. Political Science Prof Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, on C-SPAN’s After Words with S.E. Cupp….
Autism: The Next “Specialty” Credential?
Or, The Uses of Autism For your juxtaposing critical consideration–a business opportunity or a neurological disorder…or something yet known. From Shaky Ground by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books (below in normal text)…
Girls Do Science!
Or, Learning Meaningless Utilities Today, via the local newspaper (Bloomington’s The Herald-Times), comes an illustration of the modern mind “on science.” My friend Monkeywrench is in my ear…slow down, find some common ground. It’s not…
What Can the Maths Tell Us?
Darwin, The Origin of Species It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling…
Bury These Nostaligias
Is there a better way to demonstrate the absolute vacuity of America and its “gifts” to the world than the Academy Awards? This morning I read a critique of the telecast on Salon by their…
The Mind Trust’s “Opportunity” for Indianapolis Corporate Schools
As Bart Peterson and David Harris’ Mind Trust sells its “Opportunity School” agenda (PDF) to the City-County Council Community Affairs Committee this week, it is time to get one thing straight. The Mind Trust plan…
Desertification, or Living Nowhere
Here are things I cannot change that make me angry and perhaps you might share a similar list: War; anything that is war dressed up under other terms; fraud; exclusionary self-interest; that same interest commended…