I think it is a big mistake to fire Karl. We want Bush to keep Karl, because Karl represents everything repulsive about the Republican party. To fire him or demand an apology would be to say that Karl is an outlier within the Republican party, when in fact he is the party. This is . . . → Read More: No, Keep Karl
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No more needs to be said about the motives of Republicans. Karl Rove is the soul of the their party, and that soul is lying, dark and corrupt. Any Republican who supports or even tolerates his words deserves not an ounce of respect nor a moment of quarter because Americans have to be better than that. The democratic process has to better than that. . . . → Read More: Fire Karl Rove So while the administration looked upon Iraq as the lead domino in the democratization of the Middle East, the war may well have made it the lead domino in the destabilization of the region. It’s this sort of demonically brilliant stupidity that once brought out the villagers with their pitchforks and torches. In our time, we settle for exasperated sighs and headlines like, “ Washington Note proprietor Steve Clemons has been at the forefront of the fight against Bolton’s nomination, and has probably done more than any other single individual to raise the nomination’s profile both inside and outside Washington. . . . → Read More: Obstructing Bolton: A dirty job, but someone has to do it A couple of weeks ago I made a brief aside on home schooling which generated a lot of negative comments. I thought this was kind of neat, since I am a very tiny blogger and enjoy getting comments of any kind. I thought: These people sure are sensitive!Maybe if I write a whole post . . . → Read More: More on Home schooling BTC News White House correspondent Eric Brewer, the first correspondent to introduce the Downing Street Memo at a White House briefing, has been following the number of results returned by a Google search for the phrase, “Downing Street Memo.” On May 1, the number was near zero. On June 18, the number had reached 1,320,000 in a search for the exact phrase and 1,510,000 for the three words. . . . → Read More: “Downing Street Memo” climbs the Google charts Florida Governor Jeb Bush has requested an investigation into what he said was an unexplained delay between the time recently the late Terri Schiavo collapsed and the time her husband, Michael Schiavo, called emergency services. The long-running court battle waged by Mr. Schivao to have his brain-dead wife’s feeding tube removed was at . . . → Read More: Florida’s future assured, Gov. Jeb Bush returns to Teri Schiavo case A (London) Times story about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture yesterday The Media: Public Interest and Common Good exposes much that is flawed in daily news reporting. “Archbishop Hits out at web-based nonsense” screams the headline. Followed by the thrusting:
Now, I know you need a headline, I know you need a lede, I know you need an angle, and I know you need to keep the reader reading (are you still with me reader?). But do you really need to twist a 4,500 word speech which concentrates on the media’s role in society into an attack on “web-based nonsense”? Wasn’t a large section of Dr Williams’ lecture actually an appeal to the media not to oversimplify and antagonize? In fact, once the Times story moves away from its headline-grabbing lede, it settles into the thrust of the Archbishop’s argument, which as The Times quite rightly says:
Well, yes. He called for a “more realistic, less fevered” approach to stories. So why aren’t we getting one in this story? And could you also be a little more blunt? He didn’t also extend his wide-ranging critique. He spent most of his lecture telling the media to reassess the way it treats stories and readers/listeners/viewers. Continue reading “Archbishop Hits out at web-based nonsense” is a nonsense One of the basic conservative smears of American liberalism is to tar it with the supposed failures of Europe’s Social Democratic left. Essentially they look at Europe’s social welfare system, with its higher unemployment and lower growth rates, and assert that if Democrats had it their way, America would be a similar sort of . . . → Read More: Bashing Europe |
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Life-Long Self-Learning
Motivations for moving toward self-learning and abandonment of traditional public schooling are many. Perhaps the most prevalent is parental concern about the loss of control of the learning of young children. Many families want to take direct responsibility for their curriculum, approach to learning, and the principles and values upon which these are based. Some parents believe that the public school system instills values which run contrary to those of their family. Some are explicitly guided by their religious beliefs to direct the education of their children. Others have had disturbing experiences with schoolyard bullies, unfeeling teachers, or misdirected bureaucracies. A few hold that government support is inherently controlling, and that their tax dollars are binding families to a failing system. . . . → Read More: Life-Long Self-Learning