{"id":22093,"date":"2011-08-10T23:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/unblogged-bits-wed-10-aug-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-08-10T23:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T05:30:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-10-aug-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/unblogged-bits-wed-10-aug-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 10-Aug-11 2330)"},"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. Cheating report confirms teacher’s suspicions – CNN.com<\/a> – Not to condone teacher\/administration test cheating (and what it does to the kids), but, c’mon, folks – when you incent through bonuses and raises and accolades unrealistic increases in test scores, and disincent through threats and demotions and firings lack of those unrealistic increases … guess what a lot of teachers and their principals are going to do?<\/li>\n
  2. Why did Japan surrender? – Boston.com<\/a> – It’s an interesting hypothesis — though the firebombing of Tokyo was a massive effort, whereas the nuking of Hiroshima was the result of a single plane, and while the resultant destruction and mass death, the apparent ease of the latter would, I think, have still been a contributing factor.<\/li>\n
  3. Who pays for meth lab cleanups? : The Pump Handle<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Fischer’s New Definition of “States’ Rights”<\/a> – “So it turns out that “states’ rights” doesn’t mean that the states have the right to decide the issues as they see fit, but rather that the majority of the states have the right to decide what the minority must do.” Riiiiiight. Tell it to South Carolina.<\/li>\n
  5. Michele Bachmann is worried about the Renaissance – latimes.com<\/a> – Why, yes, of course we should reject the Renaissance (the Enlightenment goes without saying). Then we can party like it’s 1399, like Jesus meant us to.<\/li>\n
  6. 64% Of Americans Can’t Pay For $1,000 Emergency<\/a> – I could. And I know (even more now) how fortunate that makes me. So why are we, as a society, willing to let so many people get overwhelmed by so little? Personal greed? Fear? Apathy?<\/li>\n
  7. Dream Bedrooms<\/a> – My problem with this kind of thing is that some of these look clever, while others just look plain impractical. Which is one of my problems with most “design” setups.<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cThis is as unacceptable as how Egypt\u2019s government…<\/a> – Um … no … the con staff was not beating, shooting, or imprisoning folks seeking tickets. Except, kinda, in lines. Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  9. (Ac)tually, You can explain that<\/a> – It’s difficult to say whether folks who make the same inane comments against evolution say them because they are truly ignorant, or willfully ignorant.<\/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 …. Cheating report confirms teacher’s suspicions – CNN.com – Not to condone teacher\/administration test cheating (and what it does to the kids), but, c’mon, folks – when you incent through bonuses and raises and accolades unrealistic increases in test scores, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 10-Aug-11 2330)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-22093","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":29906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/cheating-at-scrabble.html","url_meta":{"origin":22093,"position":0},"title":"Cheating at Scrabble","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Aug-12 9:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I will confess that, when playing Scrabble (and, um, well, uh, most board games), I tend to be, well, um, competitive.But cheating? \u00a0Crikey, no. 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