It is clear by now (by now, by now, right?) as Goldman Sachs continues to rake in cash and continues to occupy top government roles determining policy, as Oil companies continue to destroy land and…
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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…
Jay Greene and Roland Fryer–Clearing a Path for “Liberal” Eugenics
First, Jay Greene makes 150k per annum from WalMart graft through his assignment as the Chief for Change in the Educational Propaganda Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; likely he gets “scholarships” and…
Martin’s Monsters–Highlighting the Latest from the Education Apocalypse
Doug Martin, always on the look-out for “news” from Liar’s Club, Education Division, sent us a few links to explore. What becomes clear, or is always clear, is that these folks are rank propagandists–simply look…
Respecting a Hymn While Degrading Being, OR Right-Wing Morality Bred in the Bone
Yesterday I attached a brief note to the post on the Parent Trigger (turning public schools into charter schools via parent vote) about proposed legislation in Indiana to limit and penalize “embellishment” when singing the…
Indiana’s David Wolkins: One of ALEC’s 2011 Legislators of the Year
Below is by no means a comprehensive accounting of the flippant Duke Energy puppet, David Wolkins, but it should serve to illustrate why the system will never be fixed but likely must be burned to…
Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
The Principal is not your Pal: Backstabbing as Pedagogy
From the Bloomington Herald-Times this morning (1/9/2012) comes this betrayal of learning and education. I had intended to simply excerpt but it is too valuable as an example of the way the Project Loving Capital…
The Loss of Soul: Corrupting Language and Stealing Common Understanding
Today our newspaper editorialized that the “fight’ over “right-to-work” legislation “should just go away” (seriously, that’s the headline). Here’s their primary argument: The so-called “right-to-work” issue has already disrupted the Indiana General Assembly. The Republicans’…