- Meet Twitter’s new thought police. Incredible (but not surprising in this anti-free speech day) that a company that lives or dies on the quality of its public forum of ideas would do this.
- Your brain: it may work better in winter. Now my brain, on the other hand …
- Bernie-ites! You want socialism? Here’s socialism.
- “Media Matters Not.” The big “progressive watchdog” goes after the little old Zelman Partisans, distorting all the way. Bear Bussjaeger says thanks.
- Narcissism.
- And speaking of which: Hillary. (This is actually pretty funny.)
- The Robin Hood of science is pulling scientific papers from behind paywalls and making them available to researchers everywhere in the world.
- The Christian Science Monitor covers free-range education.
Let’s hear it for Robin Hood. Most of those stinking papers were created with public funds in the first place.
Good point. I had mixed feelings when I first read that article. I feel a little sorry for Elsevier, despite their dubious business practices. But to whatever extent the papers were produced with tax funds or other “public” monies … make them freely available.
Failed the narcissism test miserably.
Venezuela’s opposition legislature has declared a “nutritional emergency,” proclaiming that the country simply does not have enough food to feed its population.
“The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
Education – the byline shows the depth of ignorance in America.
“A once-utopian idea – allowing kids to ‘discover’ their own education path while learning at home – goes mainstream.”
This is how children have been educated since the dawn of time. The implementation of the Prussian Military Model to educating children is entirely new. It does feed the collective doesn’t it, for the children of course.
Not surprised to learn about Twitter’s newish development. FB seems to be cracking down a bit, as well. Perhaps a sign of outside coercion.
The free range education piece is from _The Christian Science Monitor_, not _The Atlantic_. It is a good piece.
My late wife and I unschooled our two daughters, now both adults. I am very happy with the way then have developed and indeed with the way they are still developing.
It is true that “It takes a great deal of work to create and maintain conditions under which children can be their distinctive selves.” But we always knew that. It was not a “dark secret” as the article state.
I am glad it is moving more into the main stream. This is definitely something that can help advance liberty in the long term.
Sigh. Thank you for the correction, Jorge. Oh, the things my brain does when I get in a rush!
Some of the most amazing kids I’ve ever met are either unschooled or very, very loosely homeschooled. Your kids are lucky to have had you and your wife for parents. I’m sorry to hear she’s not still around to enjoy them.
Thanks Claire.
And with Twitter:
http://betanews.com/2016/02/15/the-room-had-started-to-smell-really-quite-bad-stephen-fry-exits-twitter-once-again/
When someone like Stephen Fry leaves in disgust it indicates the beginning of the end.
I enjoyed that article counselling Hillary to “be proud” of her Wall Street speaking fees, especially the part about how she “brought an hour or two of joy” into the lives of “those nameless professionals who huddle forgotten in the bottom 90% of the top 1%”. I suspect that the author was being only semi-serious, but he’s basically right: I have no problem with taking what the market will pay you (as long as you’re not selling out the country for which you work in the process). The only issues I have with her speaking fees are: that she took (some of) them while she was serving as a government official; that she won’t divulge the content of those speeches; and that she is pretending to be an enemy of Wall Street despite her history of cozying up to it (those last two are obviously related). Just release the transcripts and the issue should go away (depending upon what she said, of course!).