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Urgent: Explain budget figures as a fraction of the total

vendredi 18 octobre 2013 à 14:00

Everyone: call on the New York Times to explain budget figures as a fraction of the total.

Suspended from school for bringing drawing of a nonrealistic bomb

vendredi 18 octobre 2013 à 14:00

A student was suspended from school in South Carolina for bringing to school a drawing of a nonrealistic bomb, imitating a video game.

"Zero tolerance" is a damaging practice, and it deserves condemnation in general. What it means in practice is, "We have to be idiotic because we made an idiotic rule and now we have to follow it."

Note how the school officials duck the question of whether their actions are legitimate by claiming to protect the privacy of the victim. That's a standard symptom of abuse of power.

The students now have a great chance to take those officials down a peg with an "I am Spartacus" response. Imagine if 50 of the best students hand the principal similar bomb drawings and say, "I'd like to take a few days off from school, so now you have to suspend me!" They would find a way to change this idiotic rule.

"Stand your ground" laws

vendredi 18 octobre 2013 à 14:00

How "stand your ground" laws give everyone a license to kill.

UK thugs lied

vendredi 18 octobre 2013 à 14:00

The UK thugs who accused a politician of calling them "plebs" seem to have lied in multiple ways.

There are plenty of true reasons to condemn Tory politicians, but that doesn't justify lying about them.

First survey of slavery

vendredi 18 octobre 2013 à 14:00

The first survey of slavery says that 29 million people are enslaved. Half of them are in India.