17 Feb - BlogRoaming
Wednesday, 18. February 2009, 01:11:15
Good news on the ocean front for a changeCare2 Jollygirl
Zimbabwe's health issues worsen
Facebook users protest retention of information
Former A.G. held up torture report
Alter : Bipartisanship is all but dead
Cold bloodedness no protection in warming tropics
caerta.ie - irish for rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Follow-up Conference
Serendipity - one of my favourite blogs meets one of my favourite radio programs
Blessed are the cheesemakers
(Handel/Messiah fans will recognize this garbling "For the mouse of the Lord hath spoken it")
The Rushdie fatwah 20 years later
Joseph Raz on 'innovative interpretation' ( let's find the precedent )
Fault in contract law ( back to the basics )
Critical Mass
'Ask God what your grade is' - breakdown in 'self-policing' of faculty leads to suit
New frontiers - notices the flogging of gun carrying on campus
What we talk about when we talk about love - quick notes on a movie and 3 books
The way education was - "compared to the 1970's, today's students are uneducated and unfit for a college education."
( Even though a perennial habit of geezers is disparaging youth, this one made it into book form. Since I believe 'No Child Left Behind' an act of educational sabotage, I pointed out http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
Forgotten Lincoln ( I despised memorization. Some remember it still, evidently. I can't say reading Pauline Johnson or Longfellow was engendered in me by the practice. )
That will leave a mark - Balloon Juice
"Republicans need to re-establish credibility as the party of fiscal responsibility"
( Juan has a horselaugh -with graphs - but the koolaid keeps mindwiping the masses - or I should say a segment of same. )
Obam and liberals :a counter-productive relationship
( The U.S.A. HAS liberals ? Quick - who's a liberal ? Now go to my usual standard of comparison - and stand in the corner with the conical cap on Molly's Blog Unrealistic, you say ? Consider it pushback for MSM moving the Overton Window: tit for tat.
Think about the gist of the post, too. Lack of a popular left. Oops.
Remember Streisand/Redford in 'The Way We Were' ? That was an attempt to reintroduce the notion of perspective. Can you imagine the courage of Charlie Chaplin, who stood against open Nazism ?
Always in the USA - beware the rabid Left! Notice the mouthpiece - the rabid Reich. )
Unions are making the big turnaround we've been waiting for
White recession, black depression : let's make black inequality a piece of black history
Tapping the Power Within : Psychology Today














