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Where Do They Find These People? Oklahoma Edition
Forget Tokyo, can I go to OKC? It never ends. Just when you think you've heard it all, just when you think you've reached the end of the crazy, and they can't go no further, it's just like a geologist:...
View ArticleRIP, Pete
Others will tell the story better than I. Tonight, I'll leave you with the music.More below
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College Football Players Attempt To Unionize
Kain Colter, shop steward?Well now, this is interesting.Today, several football players from Northwestern University, with the backing of the advocacy group the National College Players Association and...
View ArticleFarewell, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
One of the icons of my youth passed away this past week. Arthur Rankin, Jr. wasn't a huge movie star, or stage personality. He was a producer, writer, and director. But he worked mostly with...
View ArticleAK-Sen: What Are They Putting In The Water?
This story is just...no. Just no.Kathleen Tonn, a Some Dudette running for the Republican nomination for US Senate from Alaska, is the longest of long shots. The fourth of four running in that...
View ArticleBREAKING: Yanukovych Flees Kiev, New Elections In May
In a stunning turn of events from the week's violence, the Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych has fled Kiev for the eastern city of Kharkov. Reports are coming in fast and furious, but here are some...
View ArticleThursday Classical Music: Les Sœurs Boulanger
"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion." ~Nadia Boulanger I am going to...
View ArticleThursday Classical Music: Saint, Healer, Scientist, Theologian, Woman
This month I'm doing a special series of Thursday Classical Music diaries focused on female composers. Last week, I explored the music of Lili and Nadia Boulanger. This week, we're setting the Way-Back...
View ArticlePi Is WRONG!!!!
Today is March 14. 3/14. 3.14 Internationally known as "Pi Day".I'm here to tell you that Pi is wrong.Listen to a real mathemusician for the truth:Learn the Truth. Celebrate TAU Day on June 28:
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BREAKING: Flight 370 Could Have Landed In Central Asia
Bombshell news coming out of Kuala Lumpur:In a press conference, the Malaysian PM not only confirmed that what happened was deliberate, but that the plane ended its flight in a volatile part of Central...
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This Is How We Win In 2014: GOP Congressman Believes Civil Rights Act Is...
As usual, Think Progress has the story:And increasingly as usual, Ted Yoho (R-FL) is the one responsible. At a town hall meeting recently, while Presidents and Pundits alike were praising the Civil...
View ArticleShameless Plug: Help Send Me To Netroots Nation
Vote for me hereIt's Netroots Nation Scholarship time again. This time, I've applied. I haven't in the past, because I haven't felt like I've done anything worthy of it.This year it's different.I have...
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Phyllis Schlafly Gets Schooled By A Twelve Year-Old
One pint-sized can of rhetorical whup-ass OK, not just any twelve year-old. Those of you who follow the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina may remember Madison Kimrey, the twelve year-old who...
View ArticleNetroots Nation Scholarship Voting: Shameless Begging
Pleeeeeez vote for me?As you've no doubt heard, it's scholarship time over at DFA for Netroots Nation. 30 people will be chosen to receive scholarships to NN to mix, mingle, and learn to be better...
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Donald Trump Complains About How The President Walks
Look at Obama being all athletic and stuff. He must be impeached! The Donald. What can you say that hasn't already been said? I guess he has an addiction to being in the news, because every couple of...
View ArticleThe Art Of CYA: Charles Krauthammer
Conservative reaction to Cliven Bundy this morning:All over the Wingnuttosphere conservative heads were exploding today. Turns out "Murricin HEE-ro" Cliven Bundy is a full-blown sheet-wearing racist....
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President Obama Throws Teachers Under The Train
Not content to want to destroy the profession of teaching by emphasizing union busting charter schools, and after Washington state got its "Race to the Bottom" funding pulled because it wouldn't tie...
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Houston Teachers To Sue Over Evaluations Tied To Test Scores
How do you measure a "good" teacher?I wonder what her value-added score would have been? It was going to happen eventually. A group of Houston teachers this week will be filing a federal lawsuit...
View ArticleYale Graduate Students Petition To Unionize
Yesterday, graduate students at Yale University presented a petition with over 1,000 signatures to the administration asking for a vote to unionize.The petition was presented by several hundred members...
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