from Le Monde Diplomatique Keeping calm and carrying on Like others in Sendai, he’s focusing on dealing with the damage nature has done, not the damage nuclear fission might do, though of course it’s a concern. The situation at Fukushima was almost immediately incorporated into the calm and orde[...]
Archive for November, 2011
November 5th, 2011 - 10:54 am § in Misc.
American Unexceptionalism
Two third of the Americans are unconvinced that US is the sole remaining superpower . The poll, released by Time magazine and the Aspen Institute also indicates that Americans, due to their sense of threat from overseas waning, want their leaders to focus more on challenges at home and less on matte[...]
November 5th, 2011 - 8:40 am § in Misc.
REMEDIAL PHD?
More than one-third of all entering college students need at least one remedial course, and the proportion is much higher at most community colleges. That means that college students may be more likely to take a remedial course than a class in most academic disciplines. But who teaches the courses? [...]
November 4th, 2011 - 1:30 pm § in UW
Seattle Childrens Gets $50.000.000 Gift for Research
Seattle Children’s Nabs $50M Donation for Research, Plus $15M for Nursing, Clinical Care Luke Timmerman 10/31/11 Seattle Children’s Hospital probably has more fun than most hospitals every year on Halloween, but this year it has something really big to celebrate. The hospital said today it has [...]
Report claims Boeing paid no taxes over past three years
Readmore at the PI.[...]
November 4th, 2011 - 8:57 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: Who is Ataturk in Egypt?
Why aren’t the media reporting on this in the USA? Ataturk, the founder of Turkish democracy, used the Turkish Army to enforce a secular democracy on an Islamic polity. Egypt, so far, does not have an Ataturk. The revolution was not led by the army, but by democratic actgivists &#[...]
November 3rd, 2011 - 9:57 pm § in America
Steve Jobs, the cartoons
Cartoon: Steve Jobs Reincarnation Cartoons by Matt Bors, Steve Breen, The passionate debate about Steve Jobs is amazing. I wonder if we are seeing the beginning of a religion? Read some of the debate here. Of course when an entrepreneur is equated to Franklin and Edison, one begins to wonder [...]
November 3rd, 2011 - 7:27 pm § in America
HUMOR: 575-pound Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies
by Weldon B. Johnson – Mar. 3, 2011 05:16 PM Blair River was a big guy with a big heart. River, who stood 6-foot-8 and weighed about 575 pounds, gained a measure of fame in the past year as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, a west Chandler restaurant that specializes in thick hamburgers an[...]
November 3rd, 2011 - 10:19 am § in Misc.
SOURCES: How to learn what the F is going on?
http://www.aslanmedia.com/ Aslan Media is the most objective but liberal persepctive source I know for what is happening in the Islamic World. The author of this site, Reza Aslan, wrote a unique history of Islam … explaining a lot that I did not know about the roots of democracy and uniq[...]
John McKay: The residual remnant of the rational republicans
Is John McKay the remnant of promise in the Republican Party? The Seattle Weekly has a long paen of praise for John McKay, mostly centered around his support for regulated but legal sales of pot. The article, however, says something else. Nina Shapiro describes something quire important, a rationa[...]