Salt City Sinner

When I took my younger daughter to her Kindergarten registration I knew they would be testing her for placement.  It was overly stressful for me as a mother to see my precious little girl being drilled on her letters and sounds.  PROUD was I when she placed at the top of her class. A year went by and it was time to do placement testing again for first grade.  I sat patiently a few feet away as the teacher held a stop watch and pointed to words for my daughter to read.  An obnoxious beep stops after 60 seconds, and the teacher moves to the next drill. Note: Not This Poster's Child's Results This went on for 10 minutes, drill after drill AFTER DRILL!  My heart was pounding out of my chest as I watched the frustration fall upon Samantha's face.  Finally, it was time to discuss her placement.  To my complete surprise she was below average on her reading drills.  I was then shown the "newest and greatest" measuring system the now use to rank ...

I've written a bit about the People's Library at #OccupySLC's Base Camp. In addition to having an excellent selection of take-one-leave-one books on a variety of topics, the Library also has a big box of zines, also with a take-one-leave-one policy. I've even been sort of "following" the Portland Gospel, a small #OccupyPortland zine that has, by some bizarre underground railroad of #Occupants, shown up weekly at #OSLC's Library. I mentioned in my last post that a lot of the anti-fed stuff I had seen packing the literature table had been gloriously replaced by a fresh bloom of anarchist leaflets. I thought I would show a few of them here, along with one interesting publishing identifier - but we'll get to that. First off, none of the following should be taken as representative of #Occupy, #OccupySLC, #OccupyWallStreet - hell, of anything, really, beyond an open forum where people can drop of leaflets that provides us with a brief snapshot of...

(h/t Pat Bagley )

The lunatic fringe at WorldNetDaily (the site that, more than almost any other, has been carrying the Birther torch for quite some time now) put up a pretty sad little attempt at justifying right-wing consternation over President Obama's pretty bland, middle-of-the-road speech to America's youngsters today about the virtues of working hard and staying in school. This is a topic that is so "Golly, Mr. President!" that previous Republican presidents George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan both felt moved to flog it in national addresses as well. Full disclosure; the Democrats at the time, moved by a similar sense of high moral dudgeon stretched to idiotic lenghts, acted like asses. Note: most of this hysteria was generated before the full text of Obama's speech was even posted, so it can be viewed as a case of shooting first and then asking questions - if questions were going to be asked by the right at all. In the case of WND's article, they've pretty much avo...