We have a crisis in US education. Many of our most prominent school reform industry leaders and politicians are not proficient in basic critical thinking skills. I’m concerned, troubled, even, that they may not be prepared for the education landscape of the 21st century when public schools are completely deregulated, privatized and fragmented and there …
Don't Trip, Organize
No one said it was gonna be easy
Michigan is the new Wisconsin: Gov. Rick Snyder said at a news conference today the Legislature will proceed with right-to-work legislation for public and private employees and he will sign the bills when the land on his desk. Only police and firefighters will be excluded, he said. The legislation is about “freedom to choose,” and …
Ro-mentum is the new austerity is the new Iraq War
one wonders why media orgs have been spending so much money on polls all these years if we could learn more from goat entrails — Atrios (@Atrios) October 31, 2012 Joe Scar wusses out on betting Nate Silver Romney will win. Halperin admits that Romney people think Romney will lose but want the useful Village …
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Barack you like a hurricane
We’ll handle the debate tonight the same way we handled last night’s: I’ll liveblog here, Joe Patrice will liveblog (I hope) here, and we’ll do a Coveritlive things where everyone can participate. The comments will be turned off here. Please people: no bedwetting tonight. I don’t care what happens, I’m saying Obama crushed it (football …
Trying to keep your spirits up and your fever down
The New York Crank and commenter schrodinger’s cat note that all the serious people are upset that Biden laughed in Paul Ryan’s punk-ass Nickelback-loving ghostly pale face. Fuck them. Fuck all the “oh noes, Obama blew it”, fuck all the “my friend David has a good point about why we should turn the country into …
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And as for compensation, there’s a little he would ask
We don’t get paid here, but give some money to the Obama campaign. We clocked over 5 Gs last night, let’s keep it going.
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Maybe it’s much too early in the game
I’ll be down in New York City the weekend of November 10, and I was thinking of another Balloon Juice meet-up. What do people think? Too close to the election? Also, too let’s make sure that one way or another we’re all in a good mood that weekend, by continuing to move the thermometer for …