Saturday, November 5, 2011

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Greece will be back in the news.  Remember to vote.

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  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Nov 4, 2011
    Debates Are Slugfests That Promote Extremism - Room for Debate
    The skills required to become president are quite different from the skills required to be president.
    This group is all Republican all the time.  
    The Republican Base is trying to distinguish between extremists.  
    We get to sit outside and cheer them on.
    It is their foot, their gun and their ammunition.  
    They will have to own the injury.

  • TimesPeople recommended a video:
    Nov 4, 2011
    Critics’ Picks: ‘Detour’
    Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Nov 4, 2011
    Presidential Debates: To Spar Is Not to Govern - Room for Debate
    Jimmy Carter's besting of Gerald Ford in 1976 did not foretell anything about his ability to handle the domestic and foreign crises that led to his defeat in 1980.

    • To Spar Is Not to Govern

      Robert Dallek Robert Dallek, historian
      "John Kennedy famously outdid Richard Nixon in their first debate in 1960, and it gave him an advantage in the campaign that helped propel him into the presidency."  That is not the way I remember it.
      JFK let the makeup crew prep him.  He was much better visually.
      "It was of no consequence, however, when Kennedy stumbled at the Bay of Pigs or in helping him win passage of legislative proposals for a tax cut, federal aid to education, medicare, or civil rights."
      There was no stumble at the Bay of Pigs.  The program was left for LBJ.  As a biographer Dallek knows it.
      Nose growth must be a problem for him.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Nov 4, 2011
    Student Debt Plan Compounds the Suffering - Room for Debate
    Predatory lenders are still allowed to victimize borrowers with ever rising costs and penalties.
    They are not allowed to charge while the student remains in school full time.  The deal made at consolidation is the deal that must be lived with
    for the twenty year life of the loan.  
    Stop whining. 
    This is better than it was.  
    Get congress to make the loans dischargable in bankruptcy.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Nov 4, 2011
    More Insidious Harassment - Room for Debate
    Online bullies can wield their power from a distance, which allows them to avoid facing the consequences of their actions.

    • More Insidious Harassment

      Marlene Sandstrom Marlene Sandstrom, psychology professor, Williams College

      "In Massachusetts, the new anti-bullying statue includes language specifically designed to address this issue. Included in the broad definition of bullying is behavior that “infringes on the rights of other students” as well as behavior that “materially or substantially disrupts the education process or the orderly operation of a school.” This somewhat vague wording is designed to include acts of bullying that occur off school grounds (including in cyberspace) but have effects which filter into the school environment. Whether this approach to the problem helps to reduce cyberbullying in the long term remains to be seen."

      Good luck with that. I would like to see some case law.


I had not considered the whole of it.

Please keep me informed.  

The grey fog of ignorant hope
is much worse than the glitter 
of uncertain promise.
         As soon as you can is best. 


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