cheese it, the cops!

sat your ass down

the fact that they made errors grading the sat is absolutely the least of your worries with regard to the regime of "accountability." the college board (= national supervisor of ed) refunded my son 20 bucks for errors on his grade, btw. the first thing is everyone has to acknowledge what that piece says: that we are in an era of education devoted only to the standardized test, and run with an iron curricular fist by the test-writers. i really think we need to shine the light on the testing companies and their processes: now *that* would be accounability.

girlish hysteria

the psychosis might seem less unaccountable if we allowed ourselves to use the term "genocide." the truth will be told.

no

my piece on mardi gras and new orleans is up at creators. it's a little more "written" than my average column. as those who know us might guess, it forms a contrast to marion's piece in salon.

ain't easy

the poilsci department at dickinson college is an extremely hard place to be a pimp.

3rd

ok. no doubt i begin to think this way at this time in every cycle. but we have got to break the 2 party nightmare. the dems are just idiot enough to nominate hillary. maybe that would be an improvement over the absolutely empty, pointless, contentless campaigns of al gore and john kerry. but it will be an absolutely empty, pointless, contentless campaign nevertheless. meanwhile i don't think the reps are going to actually undergo a revolution, so it's all the slow descent into postmodern fascism from here on in: all surveillance and torture. so now: let me ask a question of john mccain: you've come a long way from prisoner to spokesman for the party of torture. when you lose the nomination, are you you going to go out on the stump with jeb bush to preserve secret interrogation facilities? or are you going to ditch right now? russ feingold: where you at, son? you gonna support another hooray for the patriot act blankman? colin powell: how happy are you to maintain your polite servile uncletom silence? throw these people together with a few more, and you will do in america what they did in israel with kadima: you'll be a majority overnight. and they could do inexpressible good for this sadly fallen country.

the worm turns

only a terrorist would refer to gwb as "the worm." that is plenty to convict.

roiling on the river

so uc irvine is rocking on that cartoon tip. "Tensions quickly escalated when the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the conservative Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, said that Islam was an “evil religion” and that all Muslims hate America." wait. did you say "brotherhood organization of a new destiny"?

choirboy city

yo check out ave maria, the catholic city rising from the glades.

gonzo

well now. you kind of knew this was coming: it's going to turn out that that this admin has a massive illegal domestic spying operation. can we impeach/take up arms yet?