October 2008
13 posts
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The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science... →
It didn’t seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But they did last Friday, when, at a speech in Pittsburgh, Gov. Sarah Palin denounced wasteful expenditure on fruit-fly research, adding for good xenophobic and anti-elitist measure that some of this research took place “in Paris, France” and winding up with a folksy “I kid you not.”
The 10 worst ads of the season - Ryan Grim and... →
Ours was no exercise in truth squadding. We weren’t looking for ads that were unfair, fact-flouting, insensitive or commercials that otherwise injured our civil society. We asked for those that were poorly executed, dopey, misguided or just plain weird. Narrowing the list to 10 wasn’t easy.
City hopes to shuttle people in futuristic... →
“In the podcar … it creates the perfect blend between the privacy and autonomy of the automobile with the public transportation aspect and, of course, it uses clean energy,” Roberts said.
(skeptical cat is skeptical)
Chicago may get 'gay-friendly' high school -... →
“The School for Social Justice Pride Campus, which officials say will not be exclusive to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, is aimed at being safe and welcoming for any student looking for another school option, said Josh Edelman, executive officer in the Chicago Public Schools’ Office of New Schools.”
Separate? Equal? I don’t even know.
“You want to talk dirty politics? Oh, we’ll talk dirty. We’ll talk...”
– Stuck In the Muck - washingtonpost.com
(this is funny)
Our Town - washingtonpost.com →
“The other secret about our town, obscured by its distortion in political campaigns, is that the real Washington is a good place in which to live, despite the snarled traffic and a jumble of political jurisdictions.”
Former Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr.’s brief defense of Washington, currently making the circuit around my sister’s TJ generation on Facebook.
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Critter City - washingtonpost.com →
“Several Pairs of Interesting Little Animals to Be Set Free Among the Trees” read a 1901 headline in The Washington Post, announcing plans by the Architect of the Capitol to introduce squirrels to the grounds. The Capitol was just the start. ad_icon “Why could we not have more squirrels, and in other parks?” a writer asked in a 1904 Post opinion piece. “Certainly...
Bank Limits Fund Access by Colleges, Inciting... →
“In a move suggesting how the credit crisis could disrupt American higher education, Wachovia Bank has limited the access of nearly 1,000 colleges to $9.3 billion the bank has held for them in a short-term investment fund, raising worries on some campuses about meeting payrolls and other obligations.”
Incidentally, essentially the entire Olin endowment is managed by Commonfund. Eggs,...