By Mark | November 19, 2018
As of right now, 76 people are known to have died in the drought-stricken Sierra foothills of Northern California, where a wildfire, dubbed “Camp Fire,” has been burning for 10 days. As 1,276 people are still unaccounted for, this number is expected to rise considerably over the coming days, as the smoldering remains of over […]
Posted in energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, Andrew Wheeler, Ben Santer, Brian Rice, California, California Professional Firefighters Association, Camp Fire, Climate Change, coal, cruelty, Department of the Interior, Donald Trump, drought, empathy fail, EPA, fires, forests, forrest management, global warming denial, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Make America Rake Again, Nancy Pelosi, natural disaster, Noah Diffenbaugh, Orange County, Paris Accord, pleasure, prescribed burns, raking, Sauli Niinistö, snowpack, U.S. Forest Service, wildfires, Woolsey Fire |
By Mark | October 19, 2015
Earlier this month, seemingly out of nowhere, references to a new campaign for Frosted Flakes started showing up online. The campaign, called Tony is Back, promised to bring Tony the Tiger back into our homes to address the real-world problems of modern adults with enthusiastic encouragement and sugary cereal in the much the same way […]
Posted in Marketing, Media, Uncategorized | Also tagged ad campaigns, anti-capitalist, brand jamming, cereal, culture jamming, First Breath Films, Food Liberation Army, Gina Ferranti, Jani Leinonen, Kellogg's, mascots, McDonalds, police violence, prostitution, Ronald McDonald, terrorism, Tony is Back, Tony the Tiger |
Continuing our recent conversation on the misguided work of education reform advocate Michelle “we can test our way to better schools” Rhee, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was sent out yesterday by our friend Bill Ayers in response to news that 27 former educators in the Atlanta public school system had reported […]
Posted in Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, abstinence-only sex education, Arne Duncan, Atlanta, Beverly L. Hall, Bill Ayers, Bush, cheating, Chicago, Chicago Laboratory Schools, condoms, Department of Education, dismantling of public education, education reform, EOS, FairTest, Michelle Rhee, National Center for Fair & Open Testing, no child left behind, Obama, Planned Parenthood, public education, Race to the Top, Rahm Emanuel, teach to the test, testing |
By Mark | February 15, 2012
Here, while I’m working on my epic post about the showdown shaping up between Romney and Santorum in Michigan, is a trailer for a new film about those Nazis that have been biding their time on the dark side of the Moon. [You know how we’re always talking about the Finnish education model on this […]
By Mark | August 24, 2011
As you know, I’m not a big fan of the post-No Child Left Behind public education system we have here in America. I believe, as I’ve stated before on several occasions, that the American public school system, which was once the envy of the world, is being purposefully dismantled by wealthy individuals, and the politicians […]
Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged education reform, excessive testing, FInnish Lessons, Olli Luukkainen, Pasi Sahlberg, plutonomy, public education, tax the rich, teach to the test, the exploitation of the stupid, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, threats to the middle class |