Category — General

soc-sec-card:

this is where the money goes…..

Yahoo! News – AP: Iraqi Died While Hanging by His Wrists
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in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture — suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

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i am against any officer of the united states of america, military or civilian, treating a human being this way.

it is wrong, a democracy should not condone it.

Rules for papers (it’s always simpler than students think):
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It’s not so much a rule as it is a peeve, but one thing I’d add to that list is “I HATE MICROSOFT WORD.” It’s a bulky, clumsy, ugly program that lards files with so much crap and distracts writers with so many useless geegaws that I think it actively conspires to diminish people’s writing ability. When I ask for papers to be submitted electronically, I do not mean that I want a Word file as an attachment: I want plain text. Don’t fuss over fonts or paragraph formats or borders or margins, just type the words, then copy and paste into an e-mail document. When I write, I always just use a simple text editor (SubEthaEdit is currently the editor of choice), and then if I need to (for instance, because I’ve got to add superscripts or a complicated table), I’ll copy it to Word for final touch-up…but I spend as little time in that wretched mess of a program as I can.

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that’s the ticket… it really is. clean, pure text, that’s the stuff. works much better than anything else i’ve seen.

All right, it’s the “knock the bitch up” contest:

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Adam, Dog, and Cat:
And the cat didn’t care one way or the other.

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nice punchline.

The New York Times > Books > Between Truth and Lies, An Unprintable Ubiquity:
“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much [bull]. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize [bull] and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, nor attracted much sustained inquiry.”

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what is and what isn’t bull— is clear when you actually have time to think, the problem is…. that people don’t make that tim

Pop.: 1 Plus 5,000 Volumes :
Across the Great Plains, towns that have long since lost their schools, their banks and all hope of a future still keep their little libraries going. Volunteers open them for a few hours a week, waiting for readers to come down deserted Main Streets.

Nearly 30% of the nation’s libraries serve communities of fewer than 2,500 people, including almost 3,000 libraries in towns where the population is measured in the hundreds.

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cool little story

retroCRUSH: The World’s Finest Pop Culture Site:
BLOGS It’s a sad day when a gothic kid with an online diary written in his parent’s basement is given the same journalistic integrity as Fox News. Seeing Political Blog commentary during the debates like, “KERRY IZ A FAG LOL” just doesn’t quite do the job.

revising tenure
Giving young professors up to 10 years — instead of 6 — to earn tenure

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this isn’t what is needed. what is needed is a restructuring of the escalation of tenure requirements. one thing that a 10 year rule will do is make people take 10 years 1/4 of their career to find out if they are good enough to keep it. that… creates a new underclass from the untenured. untenured people also don’t have tenure, so they can be fired more easily.