Because I do believe I bummed some of my colleagues out yesterday with my early morning post on tragedy and media (what is this, fucking Hannah Montana? What the hell do you want to be talking about in the morning?), here is something that is pure sweetness and light. Behold the little Argentinian girl who …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
USA Today: You don’t need the census (you need DadWagon!)
I’m returning home today from a reporting trip in Kansas City, where yet again, my favorite midwestern rabbi has taken me on a rib-eating tour. Perhaps the worst aspect of the traveling life here in the United States is that the complimentary newspaper of choice at most hotels is the USA Today, which even a …
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Reading Too Young: The educator’s worst nightmare
I read this article in the Times with some interest. It recounts a debate among high power private school parents in Manhattan and educators in their high power private schools over when children should be taught to read. Essentially, the schools think kindergarten is too young, but the parents would like phonics working for their …
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High-Value Targets
This is hardly AM fare–waking up is hard enough these days without downing a shot of awful news–but I, like a lot of people, have been sort of obsessively distressed about the news that CBS correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating”, as CBS reported, in Tahrir Square last Friday. …