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Feral Houses?
Alternate Title: Ruins of the American Empire There’s a very interesting blog on the website, Sweet Juniper called Feral Houses. It is, in essence, a visual sociology on social decay. The images are those of houses and buildings “reverting to the wild.” As is true with feral animals, these are erstwhile domestic dwellings once Read more
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My Students Test Scores Went Up!
And my reasonable reaction to this news Some years ago I sat in on a lecture by the great education reform advocate, Alfie Kohn.¹ During the lecture, Mr. Kohn stated that there are two reasonable responses to the news that test scores have increased in one’s district. The first² he referred to as the Read more
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Why the Power Elite Love Unemployment
So we can expect Congress and the White House to do nothing about it! Where are the jobs? The citizens want to know, where are the jobs? If you listen to the puniditocracy on either side of the great and expanding political divide you hear the same resounding question. Where are the jobs? The Read more
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Red States are Bad for You!
So I decided to take this map of US counties experiencing DECREASING life expectancies And overlay it with this map of Red and Blue states from 2010 I got this I then did the same thing with this map of red and blue counties as of 2008. I couldn’t find one for 2010. I got Read more
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An Unhealthy Triangle: The Democratic Party, Wall Street and the Liberal Base
Wall Street already has a party. They don’t need the Democrats! The New York Times reports that “Obama Reaches out to Wall Street Donors.” So we can look forward to a future in which the Democrats remain in the pocket of the corporate elite, bought and paid for. What else is new? We know Read more
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