I have had enough people recently ask me what exactly my problem is with Race to the Top, that I am writing it here.

( Warning, this rant is really, really long. )

So this morning, a contractor from Verizon came to our door and said that workers needed to come into our house to install some wires ( Read more... )

Okay, so apparently it's okay for teachers to risk their lives to get to staff meetings. Our superintendent just sent out an email bas9cally saying (this isn't a direct quote, but it's not as far off as it should be), "If we had classes, we'd cancel them to avoid risk to the students, but since it's just the educators, all meetings are on schedule ( Read more... )

So a journalist in Iraq threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference ( Read more... )

So this is an attempt to reconstruct the entry on the Secretary of Education. Unfortunately, the articles I cited before either a)have been removed, b)are now subscribers-only at their various sites, or c)are in that frustrating group of articles one can only seem to find once ( Read more... )

LJ just ate a long, detailed, and researched (with citations) analysis of the Secretary of Education position and the horrendous job the media is doing of covering it ( Read more... )

So my purse was stolen, a blot on an otherwise awesome Convention ( Read more... )

Please stop making automated calls to my house ( Read more... )

So my schedule for tomorrow looks something like this ( Read more... )

Firstly, the short rant. With perfect consistency, she mispronounced "nuclear" in the same way that Bush does. It creeps me out.

Okay, the long rant. homasse made an excellent point on her LJ when she said that Palin acted like someone who has learned that being pretty gets her things ( Read more... )