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!)
Quote of the Day – Suckling on the State Teat Edition
The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.
— Linda Bowles, “The Weaning Process,” Washington Times, December 20, 1994, p. A16
See: Public Employee Unions, Wisconsin.
Found here, a source for many future QotDs.
Damned Little Linky, No Thinky
Content here at TSM has been admittedly thin of late. Sorry. I’m working on a piece that is long, involved, filled with links and graphs and quotes…
…and is thoroughly harshing my mellow.
It’ll be a few days.
In the mean time, chew on this: Gun laws, access and background checks must be re-examined
That’s from the one remaining daily paper in this town. Yeah, they’re revving up the “gun control” engines again. By all means, read the comments.
Quote of the Day – Billy Beck Edition
I keep saying it: the basic conflict in American politics is individualism vs. collectivism in all its pretense forms and manifestation. I keep saying it because no arrangements of coalition electoral politics will address this fundamental schism: as the necessary economic implications become real, so-called ‘democracy’ becomes impotent to manage coalition demands, all while the force of ‘law’ becomes more arbitrary at coalition demand.
I’ve been saying it for at least fifteen years: “The pace of this thing is picking up.”
I hate to keep saying it, because I know it’s no fun to hear it and it just wears my narrow white ass out to keep-ass saying it, but the real problem under all this is fucking enormous
I really don’t think it can be fixed before it really goes the way of the pear. We’re really in it. In our lifetimes.
Billy Beck, Two-Four – What Really Happened