{"id":20339,"date":"2011-02-27T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/27\/unblogged-bits-sun-27-feb-11-1030.html"},"modified":"2011-02-27T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T17:30:48","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-27-feb-11-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/27\/unblogged-bits-sun-27-feb-11-1030.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 27-Feb-11 1030)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Outrage of the Week: Goggles Banned as Straps Could \u201cSnap\u201d<\/a> – Eek!<\/li>\n
  2. Boob Fight<\/a> – There is a certain measure of “You think the sky is blue? Well, that means I have to say the sky is green!” to too much political rhetoric, mostly on the Right.<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cOnly the dead have seen the end of war.\u201d Who said that?<\/a> – Sourcing quotations is sometimes a great challenge. Google can only get you so far.<\/li>\n
  4. Can\u2019t fire the bums to make a quality school: Principals division<\/a> – There does need to be a mechanism to get rid of folks in education who are doing lousy jobs — and they do, in fact, exist. But kick-the-bums-out whip-cracking is not it, any more than it is in business. And you don’t fire folks when you’re not sure if you can get a replacement who’s better.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Outrage of the Week: Goggles Banned as Straps Could \u201cSnap\u201d – Eek! Boob Fight – There is a certain measure of “You think the sky is blue? Well, that means I have to say the sky is green!” to … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 27-Feb-11 1030)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127510,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/the-academic-sky-is-falling-the-academic-sky-is-falling.html","url_meta":{"origin":20339,"position":0},"title":"The academic sky is falling! 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