[Journalism] What Do You Want in an Industry?

Found at Notes From a Teacher, this…
I don’t want to work for an industry that is content with the status quo.
I don’t want to work for an industry that is afraid of innovation.
I don’t want to work for an industry that blames its readers when things go bad.
I don’t want to work for an [...]

[Old Media] Since When is Open Sexism Acceptable in the Pages of the Democrat-Herald?

A letter to the editor in the DH:
Flying in style
I have a suggestion on how we could save the taxpayers of this great country money on jet fuel costs for Air Force One.
Vote for Hillary; she could travel on her broom.
Donald A. Parker, Albany
Let’s be clear: The fact that this is a letter in [...]

[LCSD] Interesting Letter to the Editor

From Sunday’s DH:
I am writing in response to all of the articles that are currently in the paper regarding PIE and the Lebanon School District.
As an employee of Sand Ridge Charter School (which is operated by PIE) in the Lebanon School District (I hold a valid Oregon teaching license and have a master’s degree in [...]

[Hegemony] The U.S.’s Slow-Motion Swan Dive

From the New York Times, some good Sunday reading:
Turn on the TV today, and you could be forgiven for thinking it’s 1999. Democrats and Republicans are bickering about where and how to intervene, whether to do it alone or with allies and what kind of world America should lead. Democrats believe they can hit a [...]

[LCSD] Numb From The Shock

No one said running a school was easy:
In an interview after the meeting, Alexander said, “What we need to do is give the charter school more money so they can hire more office help. They’re trying to do too much with too little of funds.”
Welcome to public education, jackass. Now let me find something shiny [...]

[MLK Jr.] Quotes From MLK

Found via Feministe.

I really liked #10.

[Higher Education] An Article From The Nation: "Repress U"

I would’ve gone with “Repression State” myself, but hey….
Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus.
From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to “violent radicalization and [...]

[Hate] Sometimes I think I See the World A Little Differently…

For example, this letter, as published in the Lebanon Express:
To the editor:
We as a nation are allowing the far left liberals and media newspapers to destroy our nation from within. History has shown that the allowance of bilingual, multilingual and biculture societies cannot survive the conflict and antagonism of two or more competing languages or [...]

[Maternity Leave] High School Students in Denver Petition for Four Weeks

Via Feministing’s Weekly Feminist Reader, this story out of Denver:
Pregnant students in a Denver high school are asking for at least four weeks of maternity leave so they can heal, bond with their newborns and not be penalized with unexcused absences.
That is amazing. And smart.
HS counselors gets at the reason:
Two counselors from East High [...]

[Oregon Politics] State Representative Andy Olson Lays a Stinker

[Note: I am too lazy to format this properly.]
I almost thought this was written by Hasso, it’s so far from honest.
Anyway, State Rep. Andy Olson, a Republican, had a column in the DH about the most recent legislative session. He painted it as something of a disaster for Oregonians, but I have issues [...]

[Higher Education] US Education Funding Bill Contains Crappy Copyright Clause

Found at Slashdot, but the main points are covered best at EFF:
Last November, we reported on H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, which includes misguided anti-piracy requirements for universities. For the most part, the massive, nearly 800-page bill refreshes existing legislation about federal financial aid. But the bill also includes a [...]

[Hering] Please Don’t Let Him Near Public Policy

Lest you think I’ve stopped venting in regards to DH Editor Hasso Hering’s editorials, entirely, I’m here to inform you I’m not quite done yet.
Hering on inflation:
Indexing for inflation is what government likes to do because it wants the money and has the power to collect it.
This amazes me. Again, I am confronted with [...]

[Whiteside Theatre] An Interesting Comment From a Regal Tool

I’m a little behind on blogging, so this story isn’t exactly new, but I wanted to highlight something.
The background: A local group is trying to put together a bid to buy the Whiteside Theatre in Corvallis with the intent to remake into “performance space.”
I have no issues with that, though I trust Darkside owner [...]

[Food Politics] Issue Manufacturing 101

I’m not coherent enough at the moment to comment on it, but this seemed pretty accurate:
The conundrum for the Republican party has always been that they speak for the actual interests of minority of Americans, but they need a majority vote to win. They need just enough of the people they intend to screw over [...]

[meme] The Soundtrack of My Life, or How To Waste Friday Night While Your Friends Watch The Wire

I wasn’t tagged, but I’ll do this anyway – I have so much music I could do this dozens of times and not get a repeat, so I’m really curious to see what happens.
“This,” of course, is a meme – set your preferred music player to shuffle and write down the song that shows up. [...]