Politics vs. Justice

Via Americablog, a story in the Washington Post regarding Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s decision to try and stay in the Senate.
Craig is the person who initially pled guilty to attempting to solicit sex from an undercover male cop in an airport bathroom. He is now fighting to withdraw his plea and seems to be [...]

Truth, Journalism, and Stuff

One of Lebanon Truth’s most recent posts got me thinking about journalism.
Specifically, the following passage from this post:
So that is why it is disturbing that the journalism program at the high school seems not to be teaching reporters ethics and good manners. The statement in the school paper is libelous — it recklessly [...]

Qualified Support

From the BBC, an interesting story out of New Zealand:
New Zealanders have been given the chance to write their own laws, with a new online tool launched by police.
The “wiki” will allow the public to suggest the wording of a new police act, as part of a government review of the current law, written in [...]

Get Off My Lawn, Pretty Please?

Hering’s editorial for today isn’t actually that bad… except for one giant, glaring error.
Well, there may be more than one. The beginning:
The case of Brandon Mayfield is a poor test of the secret searches and surveillance authorized by the Patriot Act. It’s a poor test because the man was no terrorist. Instead he turned [...]

Borders

From the New York Times, a story on the newly redesigned citizenship test:
Federal immigration authorities yesterday unveiled 100 new questions immigrants will have to study to pass a civics test to become naturalized American citizens.
The redesign of the test, the first since it was created in 1986 as a standardized examination, follows years of criticism [...]

The Real Reason for Diversity Training

According to one person, anyway.
I tend to agree.

This Thesis Topic Won’t Make it Out of Committee…

The Rhetorical and Sociologal Analyses of White-Supremacist Barbershops

Overheard at a recent gathering of friends:

“It’s a pyramid scheme. God makes out, and everybody else is screwed.”

Get Off My Lawn, or I Make You Take an Introductory Logic Class

This editorial by Hering is so predictable I would have only been surprised had he not written it.
It suggests all the intelligence of a really mad squirrel.
And all the critical thinking and analytical skills of a squirrel, too. I’m just going to assume that Hering did not actually write this, but instead farmed it [...]

Reinstatement Board Meeting Notes and Thoughts

I know this is really horribly out of date, but I’ve had….issues….with the Internet for some time now, so this is just now getting out. Apologies for the the lateness; also, given said lateness, this is almost more for my interest than anyone else’s, as this certainly isn’t news.
So I attended the most recent [...]

I’m Never Too Busy for Hasso Hering

I don’t have time for this… but I can’t resist.
In the Sunday DH (what is it about Sunday that produces some of the most obnoxious opinion work?), my good friend Hasso Hering has a commentary piece on politics.
Let me preface this post by saying that if this had written by someone with a different history [...]

Someone Needs to Lay Off the Meds

Rate Your Students used to be one of my favorite sites, but the farther I get from school, the less interesting I find it.
Normally, I can identify in some way with just about every post and point of view I come across.
There’s this one post, however…and it’s strange. Really, there are times when I [...]

Oh, Crap

Now what?

Maybe It’s Time To Take That Government Class

In the DH today, there’s an article….well, here:
LEBANON — The president of the Lebanon teachers’ union won a preliminary decision this week in an unfair labor practice claim against the Lebanon Community School District.
An administrative law judge for the state Employment Relations Board decided the district was wrong to discipline Kim Fandiño for communicating with [...]

Idiotic

Sometimes that’s the best word I can find to describe the work of Hasso Hering.
One of his latest is a bizarre piece on the future of Iraq. Near the end, he says something that prompted me to post about it.
Except that when I opened Blogger, I found myself staring at my hands and [...]