And I think I’m done with grad school.
From the Lynn Item’s Controversial course sours Christmas for some students: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. That is unless you are in Irene Dalton’s sixth-grade English class at Swampscott Middle School. A number of parents are upset with a lesson plan taught by Dalton in her English class. Parent Diana Travascio said she [...]
From my friend Dana’s Reflections on a Screenwriting Life: “As I sit in my back yard next to the glamorous $300 blow-up pool that took us five weeks to get level, I reflect on my life as a screenwriter. Not because I necessarily have a life as a screenwriter, but because I was asked to [...]
From Nature’s Time to test time: “The predictions are based on a lower-dimensional view of spacetime: two spatial dimensions, plus time. Spacetime would be a plane of waves, travelling at the speed of light…The third spatial dimension of the macroscopic world would be encoded in information contained in the two-dimensional waves. ‘It’s as if, [...]
From the Washington Post’s Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions: “Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, [...]
From NY Times’ In Vermont, a Bank That People Still Trust: “While many of the nation’s large and midsize banks are staggering under the weight of bad mortgages piled up during the housing boom, the First National Bank of Orwell, Vermont’s smallest bank, founded in 1832, is having its best year in recent memory. Loans [...]
From Salon’s Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic: “As I see it, to date there have been three American republics, each lasting 72 years (give or take a few years). The First Republic of the United States, assembled following the American Revolution, lasted from 1788 to 1860. The Second Republic, assembled following the [...]
From NY Times’s Keep Your Euphoria to Yourself, Soldier: “In a stroke of self-satire, Pentagon officials tried to block Stars and Stripes — the military’s respected independent newspaper — from covering the troops’ plain and honest reactions to the election night news about their new commander in chief. The Department of Defense once again made [...]
M.E.J. Newman has put together a bunch of maps that give a more realistic interpretation of how the country voted on Tuesday. He’s got a bunch of maps to check out, but I like this one the best.
It’s the 2008 presidential election results as a population cartogram, which is a map in which the sizes [...]
From the Onion’s Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress: “Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women and young voters, who polls showed were particularly sensitive to the current climate of everything being fucked. Another contributing factor to Obama’s victory, political experts said, may have been the growing [...]
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