Now Meeting: Committee To Encourage Use of “The”
Fate must be taking its revenge on me for making fun of universities that put "The" in their official names. A story in this morning's Tampa Tribune that represents my and other union members' views quite well quotes me as saying phrases such as "health of state pension fund" and " it's up to state Legislature." For […]
Groundhogcalypse
I am writing this Far Too Late in the Evening, but I've set it to appear on Groundhog's Day morning. At this point, it's clear that a good part of the Midwest and Northeast is either in the midst of or facing serious prospects of being slammed by a gobsmacker storm, so I strongly suspect […]
Cousin of Senate Bill 6
Florida state Senator Wise has filed Senate Bill 736, the first bill to be filed as a successor to last year's vetoed Senate Bill 6. At a quick run-through, it has performance pay and some state-level evaluation requirements, both of which are more flexible than the language in last year's Senate Bill 6 and, at […]
New York Times indulges in iconographics – ugh!
By Sherman Dorn on February 3, 2011
Today’s America by the Numbers is a set of gratuitous icons next to decontextualized numbers. Cases in point: civil marriages and divorces. The numbers in the Times icon display are crude rates, against the entire population. Of course one would expect a lower marriage rate as a population ages, because young adults are more likely […]
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