May 2011
23 posts
watching the big game...
the barcelona goal just caused our entire street in cannes to come to life in cheers. all the pubs/restaurants and also all the open windows of people watching at home. any chance to cheer against the English i guess…
“Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a...”
– The Great Charles Barkley (via gotemcoach)
the best.
(via fatmanatee)
HOLD PSYCHOLOGY TODAY ACCOUNTABLE →
My colleagues and I have launched a petition at change.org to encourage the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association of Psychological Science (APS) to make a clear statement denouncing Psychology Today’s recent article. And to make clear to the public that Psychology Today is a magazine that in no way is affiliated with APA/APS or represents the best of the knowledge base...
Good News
Psychology today is at least trying to feign some degree of credibility and has removed the offensive pseudo-science tripe from its website. People should not rest, however, I think a full on advertiser boycott is in order as this isn’t the first time they’ve done this sort of thing (creating controversy - regardless of who it hurts - to up page views and stop the hemorrhaging in ad...
Psychology Today: Why Are Black Women Less... →
blackamazon:
navigatethestream:
so-treu:
this is an article. this is an article that exists. and this is where you can go to tell these people how full of racist bullshit they are.
that article was appallingly disgusting on so many levels
equating a higher level of testosterone with unattractiveness- first of all, why is more testosterone magically a bad thing? Are women automatically...
new pew poll:
over 80% of republicans think gwbush deserves some credit for the killing of Osama.
only 60% of republicans think Obama deserves some credit for the killing of Osama.
people be all crazy and stuff.
Really disappointed, but not surprised...
I really cannot believe (well yes I can) that the CIA/Pentagon mission planners for this selected Geronimo for the codename for Osama in this mission.
Just think of how despite their horrible treatment (historical and ONGOING) at the hands of this country, many Native Americans/First Nations tribal members have proudly stood up to serve in the armed services and fight for the U.S. in countless...
“The people who gathered Sunday in the Situation Room know all about...”
–
Time Magazine, “After Uncertainty, A Moment of Triumph in the Situation Room: ‘We’ve ID’d Geronimo’” (via inothernews)
Will someone put in a FOIA request to obtain the video of the operation? Should they?
(via joshsternberg)
The FOIA request would never be approved. It would reveal far too...
for all you conspiracy theorists...
you can doubt the killing of Bin Laden all you want, but if his own organization is vowing to avenge his death, that might be an indication that… you know… they feel they have something to avenge… like his death.
It is time to address inequality in opportunity in...
I propose a “ladder tax”. A federal income tax targeted specifically at supporting investments in early childhood programs and public schools of 5% on all income over $250,000 a year. This would put the highest tax brackets up to only slightly higher than in the Clinton-era, but do so in a way separate from discussion of letting the Bush taxcuts expire. It is a very specific and...
April 2011
22 posts
a child's internal conflict
i bet this balloon would go so high.
oh no, my balloon is gone.
Townsquare needs digital interns! →
andrearosen:
Now that we have a real office in NYC, we want to fill it with interns to help us create content and make awesome websites. Please pass this along to any undergrad/grad students you know who want to work and eat snacks with our super-cool Digital Team.
And for Brian Van’s sake, I should note that we are hiring interns the clean and legal way. Promise.
Ha. Not to start that whole...
medicare: do we really need it? sigh...
Bill Maher: so if you have a voucher to replace medicare and you are 75 in assisted living and you use up your voucher amount in 3 months and that is it, what happens to you?
Michael Steele: we don't know...
Riddle me this...
why do we let the private insurance companies reap the profits from providing insurance to people under 65 years of age, who are statistically far more likely to be healthy and less costly to treat. And then when they turn 65, we, the public, gladly take back the responsibility of covering those people when they would become expensive and not profitable as insurance customers.
we basically give...
House Republican's Vote to Phase Out Medicare and... →
I guess Palin was right…. There really are death panels. I just don’t think she was thinking it would be the Republican House Caucus…
Obama's opening bargaining position...
I liked the President’s speech today and it was refreshing that the revenue side of the revenue/spending equation was put back on the table. My worry, however, is that the President’s position seems to be at the bare minimum we need to do to right the ship, and it is likely (based on past observation of his bargaining style) that it is only an opening offer and we will end up somewhere...
“16 percent of the first 250 DNA exonerations, or 40 of the 250 cases I studied...”
– Who confesses to a crime they didn’t commit: Frank Sterling and mistaken confessions. (2) - By Brandon L. Garrett - Slate Magazine (via jeffmiller)
I would be fascinated to see how these false confessions break down by states with and without the death penalty. My hypothesis would be that...
O(h) Canada...
Federal Election Leader’s Debate changed to accommodate hockey game telecast…
what a final round.
so many of them in the hunt. i smell playoff…
heeee's back
looks like someone found their mojo in augusta…
at least michigan still has one major sport left where we play for championships… this time in the frozen four… Go blue!
Too Cool for School
markcoatney:
Amidst all the fuss of new Tumblrs (Britney! Beasties! State!) over the past few days, we’d like to point another, ongoing effort that’s really great: Tumblr Teachers. The brainchild of Girl with a Lesson Plan, Tumblr Teachers is a self-reported listing of the hundreds of teachers and education students who use Tumblr every day, and as a listing of great Tumblrs in that field it’s...
Justices Allow Tax Credit for Religious Tuition →
The Supreme Court on Monday effectively upheld an Arizona program that aids religious schools, saying in a 5-to-4 decision that the plaintiffs had no standing to challenge it.
The program itself is novel and complicated, and allowing it to go forward may be of no particular moment. But by closing the courthouse door to some kinds of suits that claim violations of the First Amendment’s ban on...
kickstarter.edu?
As an academic researcher, I’m intrigued by the lack of development in the funding mechanisms and channels that are pursued by academic institutions. In my field, child development, people still focus on the traditional funding mechanisms - the NIH (NICHD and NIMH in particular), NSF (for the cognitive types especially), CDC, and the big foundations like WT Grant, Ford and MacArthur.
There...
March 2011
6 posts
“The man says when he tried to take off his suspenders and belt, his pants fell...”
– Raleigh man angered by TSA security screening | NBC17.com
This happened to me once.
(via mikehudack)
mike, you wear suspenders? (via naveen)
All the time. Including right now.
(via mikehudack)
How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can’t even trust his own...
childhood today's parenting advice:
mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be duke fans.
(or lakers fans or patriots fans).
go blue.
“The Washington Post reports that David H. Stevens will be taking over as head of...”
– FHA Commissioner David Stevens Cannot Serve Two Masters: Fire Him Immediately | MyFDL (via robot-heart-politics)
i just got off of a long flight and when i started to read this post i thought it said David Sedaris… now that would have been a great appointment…
