karma

I would say I believe that karma is the result of Tony Snow's cancer & the Dick's DVT. Not wishing death or disease on anyone, just thinking about it.

Anna Nicole

Poor Anna Nicole... Remember when my car was named after her?

So why is the news so focused on tragedy lately? Is everything that tragic right now, or is it just the way the media is spinning things. I don't know, but chew on this:

Could the John Edwards family be the next Kennedy's? (see politics, tragedies)

Free Coffee

Dunkin Donuts has free iced coffee today, if you are lucky enough to live near one, drink one for me. I can imagine back in Mass that you could get your coffee fix on the free cups - just go DD hopping and get a few on the way to work.
We are not that blessed down here, until I can open a franchise the closest one is 1.2 miles from the office, and it's not warm enough to go that far to get it.
Boo.

-Medium Iced Vanilla, Cream No Sugar

Because Lewis 'Scooter' Libby taught us nothing

I love that Bushie (aka President Bush's son) is letting his aides testify. Sort of.

WaPo (& the Merideth Viera clan) says "The White House, however, limited the kinds of questions the aides would answer and said the interviews may not be conducted under oath or transcribed. The conditions enraged congressional Democrats, who vowed to go ahead with plans to issue subpoenas as early as today that would compel the aides to testify."

Good for the Congressional democrats.

In other news, PB's son also plans to veto a bill to give DC a vote in the house... Because it is... UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/20/ AR2007032000111.html

"Islam doesn't mean peace, it means killing everyone for peace"

Teacher Charged After Uproar Over Arabic

A substitute teacher was charged with disorderly conduct Monday after she allegedly lashed out at a group of Gaithersburg high school students for using words in Arabic while practicing a commemorative speech to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/ AR2006091201401.html

assalamu alaikum :)

Oh goodness, what an idiot. Honestly I would love to meet someone of her caliber and spout lovely arabic poetry just to get her riled up or something.
I bet she still eats freedom fries.

Football

Someone out there knows: What did Materazzi say to Zidane????

Edu-BORING

The edu-bloggers are slacking because of July 4th holiday... This makes my life at work boring because trolling the edublogs usually takes a nice relaxing chunk of time from my day. Granted, they're not really exciting on a day-to-day basis, and I tend to find the same info on like 8 different sites, and they get into petty eduwonk cat fights.

And they're still going nutty about mentos & coke--it was on letterman last night, let's get over it.

Yawn.

Read this if you have the time.

Interesting city paper article on a school in Dupont.
Most brain-tickling part of the article is in the last paragraph re: closing the school because of it's size.
DC obviously is not in on the small schools argument.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cover/2006/cover0616.html

HAH

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/06/18/oranges_to_oranges/?page=1

Don't go organic. a) there's no proven positive effect
b) the more people going organic, the more overtaxed organic systems will be... thus causing... something something i read a while ago. :-/

(And the whole foods lobster thing, totally PR, no one cares)

I must be hearing things

The acoustical society of america says not to use voice amplification in schools, instead renovate to fix the acoustics. Read about it here:
http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060615-042818-1064r

Where should the schools get the money to renovate poor classrooms to adjust acoustics?

That might be buried somewhere in their policy on noise here:
http://asa.aip.org/amplification.pdf

intern season

Wow, probably the dumbest article I've ever read. Interns paying $1250 a month for a tiny bedroom in a shared apartment?
You are very very obviously getting ripped off.
And another one complaining that $250 is too much per month for a dorm room?
WHAT IS GOING ON!?!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061501963.html?nav=hcmodule

troglodites

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402155.html?nav=hcmodule

YES. I think this is a good idea, and a way for metro to generate revenue, because they could charge people to apply for permits to play in the metro. Use just about any other subway system in the world and you will find people playing music. Oh DC, get with the times baby.

english immersion

Bob Slavin weighs on on Ron Unz... I think Unz is a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and I wrote a paper about what a bad idea this was a few years ago for public administration with Prof Nostradamus.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0613/p01s01-ussc.html

I am an ISTJ.

Whatever that means.

More for the Edu-Sationalists

How Bad Do You Have to Go?

At Some Schools, It's Bathroom Breaks vs. Grades

The Washington Post does it again, fueling the edu...blogger crowd and chastising NCLB for making us bring lice to school and pee our pants and not protest...

But if there's a kid in an AP class who can't respect class enough to only pee when necessary, s/he is probably not mature enough to be in a "college level" class, let alone go to real college......

"It should be like college, especially for seniors. We can vote. We can go to war. We should be able to pee whenever we want."

More on the gym

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060500826.html?nav=hcmodule

I did used to get up at 4:30 for practice, but this is insane...

election-year ploy to placate conservative voters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060500085.html

Oh Bush reviving gay marriage... Ahhh bringing this up again?
Can't we all be pro-choice on gay marriage? (Hey, and less abortions right?)

sadly we won't all agree to disagree when John Roberts is in charge of the Supreme Court

"Be realistic, demand the impossible."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/world/americas/05chile.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Read this article about students in Chile, then think about what you could be doing!

Imagine if students in the US staged a walk-out because they didn't agree with NCLB--And schools would have to deal with lower attendance rates (Sensationalism in the News to all the Edu...Bloggers for their recent posts about lice and recess and all that nonsense) which would undermine the NCLB deal on attendance.


In protests that began in mid-May, more than 700,000 teenagers have walked out of classes at public high schools, demanding the overhaul of an education system they say is inferior and discriminatory. They have occupied several hundred schools, sleeping there overnight with sympathetic parents bringing them meals, and last week thousands marched in the streets of the capital here and in other cities in this nation of 16 million. ... Since the return of democracy, financing for public education has tripled and poverty has been reduced by half. But inequalities persist, both among regions and between public and private schools. On average, according to one recent study, private schools spend at least five times more per pupil than the poorest public schools do.Since the return of democracy, financing for public education has tripled and poverty has been reduced by half. But inequalities persist, both among regions and between public and private schools. On average, according to one recent study, private schools spend at least five times more per pupil than the poorest public schools do.

girl's got weltshmerz

Aww, poor Canadian girl with a German speaking father, spelled weltshmerz wrong by 1 letter, she put a v instead of a w (sound phonetic with v, like veltshmertz i think)... rule 1 in german (i made it up as rule one, but) v sounds are w's.... f sounds are v's.
I really wanted them to battle head to head and be co-champions.

haha

About the Gym.