This Yahoo article is one of the best non-partisan reviews of the last decade of economic failure. The take-away point is that investors are sheep that will follow whatever cookie crumbs are left hoping to find a pot of gold at the end; the ones leaving the crumbs are corporate gangsters who know the crumbs are the small leftovers of a meal already finished. Intuitively we all know this, but apparently someone spiked the kool-aid because how quickly we forget what we "learned".
Leia Mais…Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sale....Sorta?
So the shopping season has begun (but really when did it "stop"?) and sales are popping up galore - or are they? "Why Orange Juice is More Expensive on Saturday" discusses that stores are moving to prices changes hourly! And lo and behold, if you shop online, those pesky cookies are going to make you pay more if you have looked several times at an item!
Just one more reason to delete you browsing history, your cookies, and possibly start shopping flea markets or the classifieds for true bargins.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
It May Hurt But It's The Truth
Roland Martin is defending President Obama because he used the word "lazy" in context of discussing American work and employees. I have no problem because it is the truth even if it is politically incorrect.
For the past 35 years or so, we have been accepting the 800 lb pink elephant in the room because no one wanted to move his fat butt. So if we now find ourselves disgusted with his foul smell, unfortunate waste, and rude stares from others, it's clearly our fault.
Stop promoting unlearned students, stop hiring/keeping people that aren't good at their jobs, stop giving bonuses to executives simply because their employees are good, and stop with the political correctness - use our English language to be perfectly clear!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Absenteeism
"High Absenteeism plagues IPS' New Intercession Program" - I have to comment on this when I have more time to put coherent thought into it and not just preach from a soapbox. Needless to say, I'm fired up!
Leia Mais…
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Finally
Finally someone offers concrete solutions to failing education. It's time for real solutions not political fighting.
Leia Mais…
Saturday, August 6, 2011
American Politics As Usual
The media has spent the last few weeks cringing over the U.S. debt debate and now it seems to be a case of overreacting; it is not a worst-case scenario and (surprise!) other countries have their own issues to worry about, like say Norway and Sudan, with those pesky home terrorists and civil war and all. But Americans are playing politics as usual, thinking everyone....well, cares.
CNN is reporting that world reaction is mixed, because American debt has not been totally downgraded to "junk" status like Greece but simply down to AA. The dollar is still the world currency reserve (although China is complaining about this). But the overarching theme is that EVERYBODY blames American political fighting as usual for the escalation of the debt problem.
For all the enlightenment and democracy, we Americans only have two sides: "right" and "wrong" and we are increasingly unable to see anything in between as this is somehow caving in and selling out our ideals. Maybe it's time to take an objective look at our behavior; perhaps we'll see this childish anti-compromising Congressional process as the rest of the world does.
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Trenches Are Really All The Same
Indiana Senator Tim Skinner and his wife, both teachers, are leaving their profession due to legislative changes. Although the Great Debate is the constitutionality of vouchers for private religious schools, the underlying debate is the professionalism of teaching and the functioning of public education.
No one should deny the fact that "bad" teachers exist; there are "bad" ____ in every field. But no one should also imply that just because some are public educators that they are hard to fire, in fact, it's very simple...rather it's very easy to move them around, encourage resignation/retirement, or hide their incompetencies, just like any other field. (Actually how many principals are fired for being "bad" at their job? Good statistic to try to find ;) Yet, it's blasphemous to compare teaching to "normal" careers, isn't it?
Being an educator has become a circus job: you need stamina to endure the grind, practice year-around to stay agile, and you have to jump a lot of hoops...and hoops...and hoops.
The Skinners point out that older, experienced teachers are in much better positions that the upcoming troops, whose concept of education will definitely take on a different perspective and set of expectations than their ancestors. I'm all for reforming education (it clearly doesn't function properly now), making more schools and teachers available everywhere, competing for students to attend a fitting school for their skills, etc. But we can not keep attacking the people in the trenches or one day we will find those trenches empty.
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