Archive for October 3rd, 2007

Non-existent Center for children who can’t read good

Apparently childrens don’t learn.
Oh Georgie, you’re going to be leaving soon—why don’t you just make it easier on us? By choosing to veto the reauthorization of S-CHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Pappa Bush probably jumped into the deepest hole since he said people “misunderestimated me,” or I don’t know since maybe [...]

Pictures last a lifetime

In what has become the latest Facebook fiasco, a group of college students recently joined forces to parody the Jena Six assault and then had the dramatization published on the social networking site. A freshman at the University of Louisiana at Monroe posted a photo album and a video showing her friends covered in mud, [...]

Vocabulary lesson

How do they teach fifth graders in Tennessee about the history of race relations in the south? They begin with a vocabulary lesson…?
According to AP it goes something like this:
A crossword puzzle assigned as a homework lesson for fifth-graders studying a book about the 19th-century South asked them to use a racial slur the N-word [...]

Billy Harvey’s website

billythumb.pngBilly Harvey’s perfect digital evocation of his indie rock thang.

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