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Re: “Morning report: ExxonMobil caught; city directors get big pay raise; the return of Ken Starr”
Some wag in the NY Times Keller comment section suggests that the Times has been taken over by The Onion.
Keller also, without irony, quotes Peggy Noonan, saying she "blew a gasket" in her WSJ op-ed. Is that what they are calling it these days? I'm more inclined to call it "drunk-typing".
Re: “Morning report: ExxonMobil caught; city directors get big pay raise; the return of Ken Starr”
Link to Lyon's book:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Fools_…
Re: “Morning report: ExxonMobil caught; city directors get big pay raise; the return of Ken Starr”
Regarding Starr in a new special role, Pierce says "Just shoot me now" and also links to Lyon's book, "Fools for Scandal"
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/A_Tr…
Starr could root out "inchoate criminality" like he tried to do in the 90's.
Re: “Honestly, do those who entertain at Walmart shareholders’ meetings really deserve all the press coverage they receive?”
An average wage of $12.67 an hour for full time "associates" does NOT give you bragging rights. You should be hanging your head in shame!
Re: “It Could Happen to You: the open line”
Words fail to describe my feelings about those two lovely young men. I would be proud to be their mom.
Here's a cartoon about our do-nothing congress.
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/overr…
Re: “See a movie open line”
Washington Monthly has an article about education privatization and how it has been a huge failure in Chile. There is a lot that sounds too familiar for comfort. Some excerpts:
"But competition doesn’t really appear to have improved quality.
"These institutions certainly compete for students’ money. Private universities advertise on television, in newspapers, on the subway, on billboards; their ads are as familiar as Coca-Cola’s. But the schools don’t compete in the way Guzmán envisioned. The institutions producing the best research and maintaining the highest academic standards continued to be Chile’s traditional universities, most of which are public and pre-date the neoliberal model.
"Sound familiar? Adjusted for income Chile now has the most expensive higher education system in the world. We have the second most expensive system.
"In 1980 the military regime implemented vouchers. The vouchers would theoretically empower any student to choose between a public school or any of a large number of government-subsidized private schools. The new system was intended to promote competition between schools and to stimulate the public schools to improve.
"But that’s not what happened. What occurred was that the professional families basically exited the public school system altogether
"What’s more, this privatization didn’t seem to make the actual quality of education much better. According to the article, the World Economic Forum ranked Chile’s higher education system 91st out of 144 countries; and math and science education rank 117th."
The Waltons, the Gates, ALEC, the Kochs, Michelle Rhee, etal NEED to read this article.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_g…
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Re: “Morning report: ExxonMobil caught; city directors get big pay raise; the return of Ken Starr”
"A tiny insignificant incident brought down by presidential hubris."---Steven E
Breaking into Democratic headquarters was not a "tiny insignificant incident". It was a felony.