Listening to the carrion worms of Fox tonight and to liberals insisting on balance …… Among the evasions of the Fox right, has been the claim that their rhetoric had nothing to do with the Arizona massacre. They claim to be fair and balanced. Yet, somehow, the violence we have seen[...]
Archive for January 10th, 2011
January 10th, 2011 - 2:20 pm § in Misc.
Calendar:Mt. Zion Baptist: Jim Crow Prisons
THE NEW JIM CROW: PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX see details at TA calendar click book to see Dr. Alexander’s book. DATE: Monday, January 24, 2011 – 7:00pm LOCATION: Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1634 19th Avenue at Madison, Seattle The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Serie[...]
January 10th, 2011 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
WA State Colleges Go Online!
With a $750,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is developing low-cost, online instructional materials for its community and technical colleges. The first 43 courses, which are as varied as “General [...]
Hate Rhetoric Moves On.
David Brock, former right-wing ring-leader of the anti-Clinton movement, writes of the oncoming torrent of right wing hate speech. See full article at The Daily Beast: …..I’m struck by how little we have learned from the political traumas of the 90s. The anti-Clinton craziness had nothin[...]
January 10th, 2011 - 12:13 pm § in Misc.
If all students pay $500/year, some students get to sit on the 50 yard line.
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January 10th, 2011 - 11:22 am § in America
A Call for Moderation
Email from Gabby Gifford to to Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, calling for moderation . enuff said.[...]
Carlyle: Merge State Colleges into a UW/WSU System?
Rep. Reuven Carlyle (edited from his blog) ….. Recently I find myself looking at the large scale structural issue in higher education with a recognition and acknowledgement that despite my private protests governance does matter. But I don’t mean governance in the Olympia sense of whether to[...]