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A second look at Washington school rankings finds signs of statewide decay
February 11, 2011 – 8:38 am | No Comment

Last April, the Washington State Board of Education published its Public School Accountability Index, a measure of how the state’s 2,000-plus public K-12 schools are educating more than half a million children. Earlier this week, …

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Hundreds of blonde women march on Latvian capital
May 31, 2009 – 6:41 pm | One Comment
Hundreds of blonde women march on Latvian capital

Maybe I missed this item on Hot Air’s headlines section; it’s the kind of news item that would ordinarily be right up Allahpundit’s alley.  The lighter-haired segment of the recession-ravaged country of Latvia banded …

CNN steps over line of decency and toward necrovoyeurism
May 13, 2009 – 11:26 am | No Comment
CNN steps over line of decency and toward necrovoyeurism

Sometimes a news story simply jumps out at you and makes your soul ache with empathy for those involved.  In the case of a recent article that appeared on CNN.com (which gave lurid and …

Stretching the boundaries of political ambition, literally
May 2, 2009 – 4:34 pm | No Comment
Stretching the boundaries of political ambition, literally

I have to profess a deep and abiding affection for the British press.  They typically wear their partisanship on their sleeve while still providing a manner of relevance in reporting that rivals the subterranean …

Jim Carrey shocked me twice today
April 23, 2009 – 2:23 pm | 4 Comments
Jim Carrey shocked me twice today

The first shock came from the incredible clarity and intelligence with which Carrey wrote in Wednesday’s Huffington Post on the topic of possible links between some forms of autism and the MMR (measles, mumps …

Join the ‘bucket brigade’ to keep Roesgen tea party video alive
April 20, 2009 – 9:03 am | 4 Comments
Join the ‘bucket brigade’ to keep Roesgen tea party video alive

Ray Bradbury put the words in his Guy Montag, his hero’s, mind: “Fahrenheit four-five-one is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and starts to burn.”  Although we don’t know how much heat …

Is your conservative Twitter pal a Daily Kos mole?
March 31, 2009 – 9:24 am | No Comment
Is your conservative Twitter pal a <i>Daily Kos</i> mole?

Daily Kos engaging in confidence entrapment ‘stings’ of conservatives on Twitter? Couldn’t they devise a better honey-pot than stinky ol’ Kos?