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Jan 10

Education Policy Disagreements in My Household

My wife – a special education school teacher – and I have a bit of a policy disagreement regarding teacher merit pay.

Most can agree that our Education System is broken (see anything by John Taylor Gatto) and some sort of reform is necessary (even if it rankles some of the President’s core constituents).  Sometimes that change can only be motivated through monetary incentives.  On the macro-level, I can see the potential benefits.  On the micro-level, it’s likely that her students may not ever achieve sufficiently for her to earn said bonuses.

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 8th through November 10th

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  • Top 50 US Craft Brewers by Sales (MAP) | Sloshspot Blog – You may have seen the map we created earlier this year using the data from 2007 sales, and we now present the updated version with figures for 2008 sales. Once again, to be very clear, the rankings are determined by sales of those breweries that fit the criteria: small, independent and traditional (see the Brewers Association definition of Craft Brewers here). This is not a list of the best beers, so you won't see your local monastery that receives 101 bottles from Heaven each year. We also included some interesting information regarding recent brewery openings and closings.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 7th through October 10th

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  • There’s No Place Like Home, Americans are Returning to Localism | Newgeography.com – Thriving neighborhood restaurants are one small data point in a larger trend I call the new localism. The basic premise: the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places, and the greater their commitment to helping local businesses and institutions thrive, even in a downturn. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics.
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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 26th through August 27th

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  • Mike Enzi, Gang Of Six Republican, Admits He’s Simply Blocking Health Care Reform – Mike Enzi, one of three Republicans ostensibly negotiating health care reform as part of the Senate's "Gang of Six," told a Wyoming town hall crowd that he had no plans to compromise with Democrats and was merely trying to extract concessions.

    "It's not where I get them to compromise, it's what I get them to leave out," Enzi said Monday, according to the Billings Gazette.

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 24th

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 17th

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Aug 09

The Wonk’s Dilemma with Healthcare in an Ignorant Soundbite Culture

Obama and company are totally losing the war for healthcare reform.  The griefers, birthers, deathers, and teabaggers have claimed the rhetorical high ground with ridiculous cries of SOCIALISM!!!!1 and toilet paper rationing, or that Obama’s legislation (!) will “pullin’ the plug on grandma!”.   It’s not a matter of facts, because in our culture, facts don’t matter.  By nearly every metric, we don’t have the best healthcare in the world.  It’s obvious that the healthcare industry, more interested in maintaining their margins than lowering our cost, are throwing thousands of lobbyists and a quarter of a billion dollars towards defeating reform.  Fear is a helluva motivator – threating old, angry, uneducated, hard-working white people that at best, their tax money will provide brown people free insurance, and at worst, we will perform euthanasia.  Read more...

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 13th

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  • Metro – Obama’s health plan socialist? Think twice – Health care is far from the only issue driving critics to chide Obama for wanting to turn America into a socialist nation. Since the beginning of the 2008 election, Republicans have been warning that Obama plans to institute über-liberal policies. Here’s a look at the policies of some of the world’s countries most rooted in socialism. The United States is a far cry from them.
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Aug 09

Inside Jobs

If you are wondering whether we are seeing a real ‘grassroots rebellion’ or coordinated astroturfing, all you need do is listen for the talking points and observing how well the ‘protesters’ stick to the script.

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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 18th

  • The Simple Dollar » The Truth About Grocery Store Flyers – So, a few weeks ago, when I took a long look at the flyers from my grocery stores of choice, I happened to notice that some of the “big sales” listed in the flyer weren’t on sale at all. The price was exactly the same as what I usually paid.

    What gives? I did some research – calling and emailing a few people I know in the grocery business – and I came up with a few interesting facts about grocery store flyers.

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