Raising the minimum wage has been getting lots of press lately. Here are some articles I found especially interesting:
Life at $7.25 an hour. And at $6.50 an hour.
Why a higher minimum wage is a good idea.
Young Democrats in Mississippi oppose an state-wide increase in the minimum wage.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Photo of the Week
This is Ndapewa, the daughter (yes, this is a girl) of one of the workers at the Andreas Kurkuri Center in Namibia, where we did all of our initial Peace Corps training.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Quote of the Week
I've decided to change the Tuesday post from "List of the Week" to "Quote of the Week." So, inaugural Quote of the Week goes to Mr. Upton Sinclair:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Monday, January 08, 2007
Links of the Week
A brief (and entertaining) history of American politics.
Great interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire, the highest achievement of film/TV that currently exists.
What is it like being a middle school girl? First Paragraph: Morning brings the invitations. The casual ones. So routine are they that she hardly thinks about them, just waves them away like gnats. Today, for example, a boy came up to her in the hall and asked, "When are you going to let me hit that?" "That means, like, intercourse," the girl explains, with a sort of gum-popping matter-of-factness. She is 13.
High School Principal gets in a fight with one of his students.
Photo of Michael Jordan's house.
Think like a genius.
Best education blogs.
From Father to Son...
Dear son, Charles wrote on the last page of the journal, “I hope this book is somewhat helpful to you. Please forgive me for the poor handwriting and grammar. I tried to finish this book before I was deployed to Iraq. It has to be something special to you. I’ve been writing it in the states, Kuwait and Iraq.
Interview with a former Seventh-Day Adventist on Creationism.
The Barbershop Awards.
Here's an interesting question: Why are America's institutions of higher learning also operating semi-professional sports franchises?
How does Google hire employees?
How do you really know someone? Along the same lines, a teacher in Jackson has been charged with murder.
Great interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire, the highest achievement of film/TV that currently exists.
What is it like being a middle school girl? First Paragraph: Morning brings the invitations. The casual ones. So routine are they that she hardly thinks about them, just waves them away like gnats. Today, for example, a boy came up to her in the hall and asked, "When are you going to let me hit that?" "That means, like, intercourse," the girl explains, with a sort of gum-popping matter-of-factness. She is 13.
High School Principal gets in a fight with one of his students.
Photo of Michael Jordan's house.
Think like a genius.
Best education blogs.
From Father to Son...
Dear son, Charles wrote on the last page of the journal, “I hope this book is somewhat helpful to you. Please forgive me for the poor handwriting and grammar. I tried to finish this book before I was deployed to Iraq. It has to be something special to you. I’ve been writing it in the states, Kuwait and Iraq.
Interview with a former Seventh-Day Adventist on Creationism.
The Barbershop Awards.
Here's an interesting question: Why are America's institutions of higher learning also operating semi-professional sports franchises?
How does Google hire employees?
How do you really know someone? Along the same lines, a teacher in Jackson has been charged with murder.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
Quotes from George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Photo of the Week
This is a photo of Otiile Hashongo, one of my students during my first year as a Peace Corps Volunteer and secondary school teacher in Namibia.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
Links of the Week
Death Penalty by country.
Is teleportation possible?
25% of Americans anticipate the second coming of Jesus in 2007.
Article in the Washington Post. Here's a quote:
Once, they were young men, living in the South, raised by a black community that provided love and sustained attention.
Oprah goes to school.
Can you move out of poverty?
Is teleportation possible?
25% of Americans anticipate the second coming of Jesus in 2007.
Article in the Washington Post. Here's a quote:
Once, they were young men, living in the South, raised by a black community that provided love and sustained attention.
Oprah goes to school.
Can you move out of poverty?
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