(P)rogressivism’s aim is the modification of (other people’s) behavior.
George F. Will, Newsweek, High Speed to Insolvency: Why Liberals Love Trains, 1/27/11
RTWT. It’s short, pithy, and pointed.
Quote of the Day – Geekwitha45 Edition
(A)ll I ever really wanted from my government was a vigorous defense of my natural rights in a package that was safe enough to mostly ignore, instead of the ringside seats at the horror show.
From a comment to yesterday’s post about the documentary Media Malpractice.
Do You Subscribe to Netflix?
I strongly recommend the documentary Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.
Pretty damned fascinating dissection of the Church of the Media. (In the way maggot-riddled roadkill is fascinating.) But it’s something you need to see.
Brilliant!
Remember this?
Well, Chris Muir has taken the meme and run with it:
Really, it’s not an unreasonable question: If Obama actually was intent on the destruction of the Republic, how could you tell the difference?
My Wheelbarrow Full of Cash Finally Arrived!
No thanks to the NRA. Reader Longhornjeff sent me one when he heard I was jealous of Robb’s.
Quote of the Day – Government is Force Edition
Wake up and smell the reality: every time Officer Friendly deals with you in an official capacity, there’s live ammo involved; just because it doesn’t go “bang,” that doesn’t mean it isn’t in use. — RobertaX, “Use Live Ammo”
“A Teacher that Can Be Replaced By a Machine, Should Be.”
Thanks to an email from Robb Allen, I got to watch a fascinating TED talk that bolsters my position that the best way to fix our “education” system is to take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
Please pay close attention to Dr. Sugata Mitra (who blogs here) and his experiments in education around the world. As he says in this post:
My work with self organised learning by children shows that groups of children can learn to use computers and the Internet to answer almost any question. This happens everywhere and is independent of what language they speak, where they live and how rich or poor they are. All they need is free access and the liberty to work in unsupervised groups.
And here he shows that work:
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
As long as we don’t pull the whole thing down around our ears in the next decade or so, there may be some small hope of making it to the Singularity.
Ennui
–noun
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
I haz it.
Quote of the Day – Eric Hoffer Edition
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America. — Eric Hoffer, First Things, Last Things, (1971) pg. 71
Sorry, Sorry
I’m having a great time playing at a message board. Target-rich environments are such fun! But time consuming. (All that cut-n-paste!)