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You know you’re punchy when….
… a correspondent guesses that no real news on Obama and education will occur soon “outside of a secretary announcement,” and your first thought is, “Inside a cabinet secretary, it is dark and hard to read.” Apologies to Samuel Clemens, of course. Or maybe no apologies necessary. And now, to finish some teaching stuff.
NEWS FLASH: Limbaugh eats other foot
Rush Limbaugh, in an e-mail to Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen October 19, 2008: Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race. OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come […]
Possible boondoggle in broadband build-out?
There’s something possibly important but important to check in the Educause podcast of a May 8 speech by John Windhausen, who runs the Telepoly website. To put his argument briefly, he is convinced that the U.S. will run out of broadband capacity, and he argues for a “national broadband policy” to expand the broadband infrastructure, […]
Small irritations when reading blogs
Not aimed at any specific blog, and if you think this is about you, you’re probably wrong, but if the following discourages you from any of these practices, … If you invite comments, why are you asking people to register using a system that doesn’t work? “This” is obscure text for a link, makes it […]
Top 10 Reasons To Be Glad You’re Not on a Transition Task Force
By Sherman Dorn on December 1, 2008
Speaking for the approximately 300 million of us who are not on one of the Obama-Biden transition task forces, I can say that we’re all horribly disappointed. So to cheer us all up, here’s a list of reasons why we’re secretly glad we’re not among the top movers and shakers in the next two months: […]
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