A lovely five hour drive through a snowstorm. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my Subaru?
Archives for October 2011
No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom
No, the kids are not alright under GOP rule in Michigan. City fire marshal investigators plan to inspect every Detroit Public Schools classroom after receiving complaints this week about overcrowded classes with more than 50 students. Detroit Fire Department representatives met Thursday with district officials to determine the maximum number of students for every classroom …
Layer cake
Kthug touches on one of my favorite topics: What I found myself thinking about, however, is the way the inequality debate illustrates some typical features of many debates these days: the way the right has a sort of multi-layer defense in depth, which involves not only denying facts but then, in a pinch, denying the …
Afternoon Open Thread Type Thing
College football appears to be happening around the country, also some sort of localized winter death storm in the Northeast where brimstone and/or razor sharp obsidian is falling from the skies. TNC on Up with Chris Hayes this morning was a nice change of pace, but then Mort Zuckerman showed up to blame everything economic, …
“Why Our Generation is Screwed”
I’m at a conference where a twenty-something student is giving an OWS presentation with this title, and he included this graph (click to embiggen). I can’t really argue with him. Last night, Rochester Police arrested 32 protesters at Occupy Rochester. I have to believe the violence in Oakland influenced the police approach, which included multiple …
Open Thread: “In Republican campaigns, the difference between an “issue” and a “distraction” is whether the Koch Brothers have busted out the checkbook yet.”
Wherein I once again give thanks to whatever aspect of Murphy, the Trickster God, inspired the NYTimes– owned suits busily destroying the last worthwhile parts of the Boston Globe to give Charles P. Pierce his freedom. The un-mealy-mouthed precincts of Esquire and the boundaryless generosity of regular blogging have given him the chance to produce …
Five Bucks, Chucked
After being rightfully pegged as the poster child of Wall Street greed in a lousy economy, Bank of America is reconsidering that whole $5 a month debit card fee for its customers. Bank of America is considering softening its controversial policy of charging some customers for making purchases with their debit cards, according to a …