...the more they stay the same.

"Das war vorspiel nur. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen."

"That was merely a prelude. There, where they burn books, will they eventually burn men too."
--Heinrich Heine, 1821. Translation mine

you'd think that the newsies, in their desperation for anything that resembled controversy, would champ at the bit for even more possible malfeasance in the Bush administration, but lately a string of news stories have broken and gone....unremarked by even so much as a quirked eyebrow in the major outlets.

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I've long known that many (most?) schools aren't teaching kids sufficiently
to comprehend collegiate or advanced mathematics and science.

What I didn't know is just how deep the problem lies.

Watch this video. Pay attention to what she says, and think about what it ( Read more... )

Samuel Adams is suing Samuel Adams for using the name Samuel Adams ( Read more... )