Monthly Archives: August 2014
QUIZ: Is This Headline From Vox Or TMZ?
I only managed 6 out of 10 (barely more than you’d get by random chance), but then I don’t keep up with the rot that is TMZ’s bread-and-butter…or is it Vox’s? Pop “culture” in its current form is pretty much a sewer either way. The article is more an indictment of Vox’s unseriousness than anything else:
Scott Alfter
26 Aug 2014
What could possibly go wrong?
Your Tax Dollars Are Funding a Database of Political Tweets, ‘Misinformation’
One of the comments links to the homepage of the lead investigator of this ostensibly “non-partisan” project. I suspect this project is little more than AttackWatch 2.0.
Do as I say, not as I do
Yet more Democrat hypocrisy, as 0bama BFF Warren Buffett kicks in some of his billions to enable Burger King to buy out Tim Hortons and move its headquarters to the Great White North:
Obama Pal Warren Buffett Helping Burger King Exercise ‘Unpatriotic Tax Loophole’
Running: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:09:18
- Activity: Running
- Distance: 3.02 mi
- Duration: 00:34:46
- Average Pace: 11:30 min/mi
- Calories Burned: 545
- Activity Link: http://runkeeper.com/user/salfter/activity/421331329
- Start Time: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:09:18
The Struggle for Stupidity
On Common Core and the dumbing-down of America:
Bill Whittle: The Struggle for Stupidity
Reference is made within to a high-school reader (which may have been mistakenly identified in the title as sixth-grade material) from 100 years ago:
This looks like it could be an interesting read. (Interesting technical aside: just bought a copy, and it’s being sold without DRM. w00t!) If you have school-age kids attending the government-run indoctrination centers that are called “public schools,” it’d most likely be a good antidote for the PC mush they’re going to get there.
Scott Alfter
25 Aug 2014
Scott Alfter
25 Aug 2014
Scott Alfter
24 Aug 2014