[Update I:] Gatesgate. Digby expresses herself on this much better than I can. – This is all in my ‘not so humble opinion.’ I just posted this on Facebook: Sgt. James Crowley refuses to apologize to distinguished Professor Henry Louis … Continue reading
Doc shortages to deficits: Reform reality check – Breaking Bioethics- msnbc.com "awesome debunk of health reform scare tactics used by rightwing" via Mic Check Radio (tags: healthcare reform)
Good books? | Danny Postel | New Humanist "What can humanist parents use in the battle against religious indoctrination?" (tags: education books kids religion philosophy secularism humanist)
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / On July 20th, 1969…by Pamela Sargent “Over the years, I have increasingly felt that the world I live in has somehow diverged from the continuum that I lived in then, … Continue reading
Our Best and the Brightest Led us to the Moon and Now We’re Leaving Them Behind by Thom Hartmann It is not surprising that it would take Forbes, the magazine that, for years, had as its slogan “Capitalist Tool,” to … Continue reading
I have goose bumps 40 years on… OK, it’s live! Apollo 11 landing on TV as it aired 40 years ago today. http://kottke.org/apollo-11 Not much happens until 4:10pm EDT. But just load it up and let it sit until then. … Continue reading
At 20:17:40 UTC Neil Armstrong said, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” At 02:56 UTC on July 21 He became the first human to walk on the Moon. I was 13 years old and had been glued to … Continue reading
Or, README twice, click ‘upgrade automatically?’ once. I knew — somewhere, just not front and center — that the auto-upgrade feature of WordPress would overwrite any code you may have inserted into the ‘classic’ or ‘default’ themes. I knew that. … Continue reading
Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com "Tellingly, his most celebrated and significant moment (…) was when he stood up and announced that Americans shouldn't trust the statements being made about the war by the … Continue reading
Autism as Academic Paradigm – ChronicleReview.com Unh huh. Questions?!? "It turns out that the American university is an environment especially conducive to autistics. Many autistics are disadvantaged or overwhelmed by processing particular stimuli from the outside world and thus are … Continue reading
