Far afield…
- Young Obama made fun of himself (BuzzFeed)
- Bad news for fans of the Arctic Shelf (i09)
- 5 things we must rely on gov’t to do (Prospect)
- Togolese women want change, so no sex for you! (bbc)
- Experience beat Materialism, and why it’s good to seek more (PeerReviewed)
- Ants invented the internet, sorry Al Gore (io9)
- Amazon makes an electoral map by books (Amazon)
- This history of monetary policy is worth a look (Ritzholtz)
- Why you should kill your robot twitter followers (BuzzFeed)
- Ferrari is losing a generation of buyers (jalopnik)
- Tampa Loves their wandering Monkey (NYTimes)
- Niall Ferguson thinks facts are for flunkies (Atlantic)
Closer to home…
- Kroger hates when you give away cans (AJC)
- Atlanta to homeless: don’t handle that pan! (AJC)
- County versus city tax fight needs mediator (SavannahMorningNews)
- New House Member, to liberty and Paul he caters (MDJ)
- “But they are dumb” a cheating teacher retorts (AJC)
- Emory nows tries to suppress its rankings report (AJC)
- A TIA post mortem focuses on facts (SaportaReport)
- And millennials aren’t interested in cars or housing tracts (Atlantic)
Your 8:30 Update:
- Fort Valley makes a decision it will regret (MaconTelegraph)
- David Brooks has a Romney bio vignette (NyTimes)
- North Fulton holds a transportation forum (you’ll have to drive there, folks!) (MDJ)
- George Bush plays Columbus State (he’s got jokes!) (ColumbusLedgerEnquirer)
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As an Emory grad, I’m really chuckling how fast Emory is moving to cover-up their mis-reporting.
In all of their classes, they talk about ethics, integrity and how they are so much better than conservatives and corporations. Expressing a conservative view gets one labeled as an uncaring greedy homophobic racist bitter and clinger who wants to rape the earth and enslave the poor. (you can tell I had lots of fun playing with the Marxist professors )
We are now seeing what Emory’s core values are.
Emory is going to be in a Lance Armstrong defense position soon -”but everybody is cheating!”
In Lance’s case “everybody WAS cheating” is a fact but he has not played that card…yet.
In Emory’s situation it seems the ends justify the means as social issues/diversity/international appeal trumps academic excellence.
He has not played that card but his surrogates have. That’s a fair point though.
I noticed the brief reference at the end of the piece to the ongoing scandal of law school post-employment numbers. I was shocked; I had no idea Emory had fallen so far in the rankings, apparently on that basis (especially given that in fact, every other law school IS doing it too).
As an Oxford grad, I’m pissed that Emory did this. And speaking of the conserative items you just ticked off, that was my experience, too. They never met a Marxist they didn’t swoon over! That includes President Peanut, too. I went in to my sociology professor the Wednesday after Reagan won his first term and gloated my conservative ass off. He was a good sport and didn’t flunk me!
I think someone hacked David Brooks column. I read that this am and was pretty stunned.
I forgot how well he puts together a sentence. It is more evidence that the intellectual wing of the Republican party is adrift and looking for a good place to land.
What a shock! David Brooks is the House “conservative” of the New York Times.
The Amazon political book map is interesting, but weird.
Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly is red. Truman by David McCullough is blue. Really? Really? Maybe they’re simply history books. Howard Zinn being an obvious exception.
Truman was a Democrat and Lincoln a Republican. But then again, it’s about killing Lincoln…
Or maybe history, like truth, has a liberal lean. I kid, I kid.
I find your humor acceptable. Carry on.
DeKalb school news just keeps coming:
“Dozens of DeKalb County school bus drivers are threatening to go on strike over pay cuts.
Some teachers, cafeteria workers and custodians also participated in the protests.”
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/Dekalb-school-bus-drivers-threaten-strike/nRLjS/
Shouldn’t be hard to replace them as many school bus drivers are there for the health benefits.
That seems odd – I don’t think driving a bus is particularly good for the body.
+1
(Well, driving it’s healthier for you than getting tossed under it.)
NRC nuclear licensing freeze won’t stall Vogtle
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-08-10/nrc-nuclear-licensing-freeze-wont-stall-vogtle?utm_source=GaPundit.com&utm_campaign=2e8c68d829-August_28_20128_28_2012&utm_medium=email
Well, they weren’t named in that complaint, but I would say that the ruling means they should be on alert for the rule change. Here’s the Commission order:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/orders/2012/2012-16cli.pdf
This was an interesting comment to the article:
“Dingy Harry Reid was all for the Yucca Mtn project while it was employing 10 of thousands of contractors and suppliers in his state. When the project was 98% complete with billions of tax dollars spent and only needed several hundred to operate the facility, he and all of his liberal cronies and eniromental whackos in Washington pulled the plug.”
Cato warns charter school will hurt public schools budgets and tax payers…………
………..While most students are drawn from traditional public schools, charter schools are pulling large numbers of students from the private education market and present a potentially devastating impact on the private education market, as well as a serious increase in the financial burden on taxpayers.
Private school enrollments are much more sensitive to charters in urban districts than in non-urban districts. Overall, about 8 percent of charter elementary students and 11 percent of middle and high school students are drawn from private schools. In highly urban districts, private schools contribute 32, 23, and 15 percent of charter elementary, middle, and high school enrollments, respectively. Catholic schools seem particularly vulnerable, especially for elementary students in large metropolitan areas.
The flow of private-school students into charters has important fiscal implications for districts and states. When charters draw students from private schools, demands for tax revenue increase. If governments increase educational spending, tax revenues must be increased or spending in other areas reduced, or else districts may face pressures to reduce educational services. The shift of students from private to public schools represents a significant shift in the financial burdens for education from the private to the public sector……
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/impact-charter-schools-public-private-school-enrollments
Makes you long for the days of Zell Miller and duels, Chris Matthews making an ass of himself yet again — http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80190.html?hp=r17_b3
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