Woody Allen’s son to join UW Rhodes Scholars! NEW YORK (AP) — The son of actress and activist Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. Ronan Farrow is among 32 American students who will be awarded scholarships to study at Oxford University. It’s not the[...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
Rhodes Scholars from WASTATE and the Udub!
This is a big event for the UW’s new South Lake Union Campus. Cameron Turtle, a student in Mike Regnier’s laboratory at the UW Center for Cardiovascular Regernative Medicine is one of of two UW students to win a 2012 Rhodes Scholarship! Cameron and Byron Gray, another UW senior w[...]
November 14th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Good News for Harvard
Harvard Raises $639M Despite Tough Economy 1 By Tara W. Merrigan and Zoe A. Y. Weinberg Despite a shaky economy, Harvard raised a record setting $639 million during the 2011 fiscal year, the third-largest amount ever accrued in the University’s history.[...]
November 6th, 2011 - 4:49 am § in America
SUNDAY REVELATION: Christian roots, trunk and branches for the Third Reich
Hitler was a True Christian™ from PZ Meyers on Pharygula. If you tuned in to that local debate on Christian radio, you know that one of the points the Christian fool trotted out was the tired old claim that the Nazis were no true Christians — no True Christian™ would ever commit such horrible[...]
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 [...]
October 22nd, 2011 - 5:23 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
The Foundering Fathers vs Public Education
Mike Lee, Utah’s new Tea-Party Senator, tells us that: “…Congress has no business regulating our nation’s public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so.” Senator Lee … not sure where your founding fathers did their founderi[...]
October 21st, 2011 - 5:53 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
An AVE Endorsement: Richard Mitchell
Take a look at this debate between incumbent King County Council member Jane Hague and her challenger Richard Mitchell for the position from Mercer Island. I was lucky enough to have dinner a few weeks ago with Mitchell, he is VERY IMPRESSIVE! He is that all to rare bird, a fellow who could ob[...]
Worship of Steve Jobs.
On last Friday’s “Real Time,”Bill Maher painted Steve Jobs as “not a corporate type” only to minutes later accurately note, “Apple makes their s–t in China. And they could still make it here and make a big profit, but they make more of a profit by making i[...]
People of color should not vote with everybody else!
Majority-minority? by N in Seattle at HorsesAss has a great post on the effort to increase a “majority minority” Congressional district south of Seattle … you know where all of those black, yellow, brown, people live unless they are Korean, Indian, Lummi, or Chinese. The proponents[...]
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[...]