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Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions … Continue reading
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My Problem With WhiteGrlProblems
The Twitter account @WhiteGrlProblem has become something of A Thing recently, thanks first to re-tweets by actress Emma Roberts and later to Time Magazine, who named it number three on their list of 140 Best Twitter Feeds. For those who … Continue reading
If You Overemphasize Test Scores, Don’t Be Surprised When People Cheat to Raise Them
Last Monday, Michelle Rhee condemned a USA Today investigation of the successes that Washington, DC, public schools achieved under her tenure. From 2006 to 2010, most of which saw Rhee as chancellor, the percentage of students in Crosby S. Noyes … Continue reading
Where Are Your Grocery Dollars Going?
In March, the USDA released the newest figures in a series of data entitled The Food Dollar; an annual breakdown of food prices that tracks where each dollar spent on groceries actually goes. The results are startling. For 2008 (the … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Food, Geopolitics, Labor, Technology, The Economy
Tagged corn, Ethanol, Farm Bill, Farmers, Food Commodities, Food dollar, local food, oil, small farms, Supply and demand, Sustainability
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Freedom of Offending
“Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.” –Staffan de Mistura, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, who is wrong about that. It feels weird having to defend a bizarre, craven Christian-supremacist.
Posted in American Politics, Geopolitics, Religion
Tagged catholicism, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, Hillary Clinton, Islam, Joe Klein, Koran, Rudy Giulliani, Staffan de Mistura, Terry Jones
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Because We Like Our Tofu Well Done
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, “Son, go work today in my vineyard.” He answered, “I will not,” but afterward he changed his mind, and went. He came … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Geopolitics, War
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Honoring Our Educators
“Part of compensation is public esteem. When governors mock teachers as lazy, avaricious incompetents, they demean the profession and make it harder to attract the best and brightest. We should be elevating teachers, not throwing darts at them.” — Nicholas … Continue reading
Conscientious Consumerism (or Why I’m boycotting Target, but still eating Chick-Fil-A)
The CEO of Whole Foods is a libertarian who doesn’t support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Target gave $150,000 to a conservative Minnesota Political Action Committee that endorsed an anti-gay candidate for governor. S. Truett Cathy, the founder … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Sexuality, The Economy
Tagged Boycott, Conscientious Consumerism, LGBT, Money, Target
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Religion is Here to Stay (or Physicists Should Only Model Particle Behavior)
In the 1950s and ’60s, social scientists predicted that organized religion would give way to secularism. Among the leading proponents of that theory was Peter Berger, well-known sociologist of religion, who in 1968 predicted that “people will become so bored … Continue reading
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