I can't stomach the vast majority of awards shows, especially the Emmys. The lone exception to my disdain is The Golden Globes, largely due to the fact that everybody in the building appears to get thoroughly plastered as the evening unwinds. This year's edition of the Globes looks to have significantly upped its entertainment value by assigning host duties to none other than Ricky Gervais. His scathing irreverence will be a welcome bonus to the proceedings...
...would suggest that there are still other, far more important issues for the federal government to address than say, the socialization of health care...
And whatever happened to the whole federal "sky marshal" thing? Why did the paying customers have to subdue this character?
Something for the avid civil libertarians and relentlessly indignant lefties to ponder...you roundly pillioried Dubya for allegedly annhiliating the right to privacy with The Patriot Act ( a bit of legislation that nearly every congressional Democrat supported, by the way)...but in the age of Facebook and out-loud-cellphone conversations-in-public, is there any tattered semblance of privacy left?
Furthermore, does the federal government really possess the competence to do ANYTHING with the information that it might collect through said legislation?
Just a point to ponder, as Reader's Digest would say...
Why is it that seemingly EVERY educational "reformer" who comes along with the latest and greatest utopian proposal for remaking a fairly straightforward process is somebody who is either a) safely removed from the classroom and thus insulated from the real-life consequences of their reform, or b) somebody who has never spent Day One in a classroom with live, flesh-and-blood students?
I'll be even more specific with this rhetorical query...what is it in Arne Duncan's background that qualifies him to opine or pontificate on quality academic instruction? I know he's played a lot of hoops with Obamanon, but aside from that, what classroom experience does he possess that equips him with the right to say that teachers should be hired and fired according to student test scores?
It's been far too long since I've engaged in the fugal form of therapy that is blogging, but now that the holiday frenzy has subsided and I can relax from forced affability, let the curmudgeonly eruptions commence in full force...
