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Since the old one isn't opening properly, I'm starting a new one until our tech folks can get to the old one. If possible we'll merge them later.

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New York Times, Oct. 26

This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education a few weeks back, by the teacher of a very unusual writing course at UPenn, has sparked a fair amount of debate among college writing instructors, at least the ones I know. When a writing prof I know first described this article to me, my...

CBS, Sept. 20 Danon I mentioned in another thread a few days ago, he's an author of Israel's recently passed law banning political boycotts and an open opponent of a two-state solution. Zeev has proposed a network of 'rehabilitation' clinics for homosexuals throughout Israel. Hikind is a...

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St. Petersburg (FL) Times, July 31 If it weren't archived, I'd been considering bumping this old thread to post this article in, because the nature of the alleged non-consensuality here reminded me of that (what national attention this case has attracted thus far has, unsurprisingly...

Andrew Sullivan, July 18 A little hard to predict where this lawsuit might go, since there are at least two readily imaginable responses: A) that this is no worse than numerous other notorious cases of local political corruption in recent US history, and none of those municipalities were...

Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 23 San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 23

Regrettable hooliganism of the predictable "anarchist" hangers-on aside--why aren't American students engaging in similar protests, and organizing to put the pressure on their elected officials? Everyone agrees the cost of a public university education here constitutes a crisis. But nothing...

This is a rather long read, and not a new topic for FYM--I know A_W, for one, has posted on it several times before--but I thought this article provided a really interesting, wide-ranging overview of current research in the evolutionary psychology of depression...

Happy Birthday! :hug:

I don't know if anyone else here has been following the World Athletics Championships in Berlin and the story of Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African runner who won the women's 800m gold and is now being forced by the IAAF to undergo a 'gender verification test.' The IAAF say they'd...

Normally I prefer to post an article rather than say, "Just watch the video," but, in this case...just watch the video. David Brooks: 'In Search of Dignity' (MSNBC, July 10) Of course what's probably going to become the focus of blogosphere attention here, from both left and right, is the...

(CBS' website has a video clip briefly reviewing the story followed by the brief interview with the mother--who is clearly also obese, though nowhere near as badly as the boy.) From Googling for a couple other articles on this story, it sounds as if there may still be some dispute as to what...

Fake News Alert: "Hersh Says Cheney, Sharon Plotted Hariri and Bhutto Assassinations" So yesterday several Pakistani and Indian news sites (Dawn, Nation, WebIndia123, Thaindian) foolishly reported without checking--then some morons at Wall Street Journal and American Spectator passed on--a...

Is the World Ignoring Sri Lanka’s Srebrenica? by Robert Mackey The Lede (news editors' blog), New York Times, April 17 As Somini Sengupta reported in the Times earlier this week, despite a two-day pause in fighting, the Sri Lankan government has “rebuffed international appeals to protect...

I've been thinking for awhile about trying to get a discussion going in here on this topic, but haven't been quite sure how to go about it. Maybe since things are so quiet around here right now, and most of us are finding we have little to offer beyond 'Ulp...ohhh shit' concerning the economy...

Lately whenever our electricity temporarily goes out (unfortunately not uncommon around here, especially in thunderstorm season), when we turn our PC back on afterwards, it won't boot up; instead we get a mostly black screen with a color-spectrum thingie and an error message below it saying "OUT...

Haven't had an education thread in here in awhile, and unfortunately I'm not sure how many of our resident teachers are still really with us, but...This story caught my eye because the program it describes in many ways resembles something the public schools in Mississippi, where I grew up, tried...

I almost put this in financeguy's "War on Terror" thread because it's related to a news story I posted in there, but it seemed worthy of its own thread. Reading this almost made me physically ill. What the fuck have we gotten ourselves into, what the fuck have we dragged our allies into along...

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I know there's already a thread for this over in LS, and that many of you are probably already 'out' for the holidays...but, since some of us don't read LS regularly...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I especially hope all of you who were traveling to visit family or friends for the holiday...