Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau (Hugh Hewitt Show) 2009;
[W]hen he was at the [Harvard Law Review] you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
A lot of the time he quote/unquote “worked from home”, which was sort of a shorthand – and people would say it sort of wryly – shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn’t around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He’s the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
What is striking now is a growing sense, fairly or unfairly, that Obama is not capable of rising to the occasion, that he just doesn’t like politics, that he’s disengaged, that despite his soaring rhetoric in 2008 he has a passion deficit.
All the criticism about him playing golf and being at Martha’s Vineyard is kind of a code for his supposedly being unplugged from the job.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Things seen in Ferguson, MO: A TV crew of a to-be-left-unnamed major cable network taking pieces out of a Ferguson business retaining wall to weigh down their tent…
The Sound Of Settled Science
Eventually, everything we’re told to do will be proven to be wrong.
For years, we’ve heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Did I say “wrong”? I meant “bullshit”.
But scientific support for that idea has been surprisingly meager…
The Children Are Our Future
Educators of the past managed to build the Hoover Dam, split the atom, and walk on the moon by doing EVERYTHING WRONG.
In a finding sure to inflame the math wars, a team of neuroscientists has revealed the crucial role played by rote memorization in the growing brains of young math students.
Memorizing the answers to simple math problems, such as basic addition or the multiplication tables, marks a key shift in a child’s cognitive development, because it helps bridge the gap from counting on fingers to complex calculation, according to the new brain scanning research. […]
In effect, as young math students memorize the basics, their brains reorganize to accommodate the greater demands of more complex math. It is a gradual process, like “overlapping waves,” the researchers write, but it clearly shows that, for the growing child’s brain, rote memorization is a key step along the way to efficient mathematical reasoning.
And learning how to make change.
Corner of W. Dundas and Keele
Photo credit: Brick60
Y2Kyoto: Sucks To Be EU
Via JoNova: Consumers warned to “act quickly” before top-rated powerful vacuum cleaners sell out forever
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips two-time Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen teaches Top Gear’s James May how to drive like a Finn.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Terry Sawchuk remembered.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Those Moderate Muslims!
VS the moderate Chinese: “China plans to fight terror with dozens of new cities”
h/t Larry
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the sun never sets on the Islamic Caliphate;
UK Independence Party (Ukip) leader Nigel Farage has called for Britons who have travelled to Syria to fight for Islamic State (IS) militants to be stripped of their UK citizenship. […]
On Wednesday, the party demanded that the Government strips militants with joint nationality of their UK citizenships, while British nationals could have their passports withdrawn. Those who do not hold UK citizenship but have been granted the right to live here should immediately have that right revoked, the party added in a statement.
Ya think?
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
University! College newspaper can’t be called ‘The Bullet’ anymore because it’s too dangerous
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded “means-tested programs” — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.
h/t peterj
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Your Tax Dollars At Work
In a story that sounds almost too ridiculous to be true, both La Presse and the Toronto Star are reporting that John Baird’s Twitter account is being investigated by Graham Fraser, Canada’s language watchdog – after someone complained that the foreign affairs minister’s tweets were mostly in English.
Reader Tips
Q: What happens when guy quits his street gang, starts combing his hair, and stops doing the wild things that he did before?
A: He bores his girlfriend to death.
That there’s The Shangri-Las.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Heat, Friction, Whatever
The Sound Of Settled Science
Science unlocks shocking secret of that big glowing ball in the sky: ‘unexpected link between solar activity and climate change’