-{This post was ported over from Hit Coffee}- John T. Tierney gives the case against AP tests: AP courses are not, in fact, remotely equivalent to the college-level courses they are said to approximate. Before teaching in a high school,… Continue Reading
You know those rude jerks that keep a Bluetooth earpiece in their ear even when they’re not using it? I’m one of them. To me, it falls under the rubric of being the change I want to see in the… Continue Reading
So far, mommy, baby, and daddy are doing well. I am not nearly as tired as I expected to be. That’s partly because we have a reasonably quiet baby. It’s also because a whole lot of the burden has been… Continue Reading
My wife’s fondest colleague is Dr. Kaye. Though they don’t work precisely in the same area of medicine, they both have similarly off-beat personalities. They look a little bit alike, too, in a basic or superficial sort of way. They’re… Continue Reading
The cable in the hotel room only has a few channels for cable. I was flipping through looking for ESPN to watch the LSU/A&M game. Alas, it doesn’t look like ESPN is carried. Due to high carriage fees, I’d imagine.… Continue Reading
On Wednesday night, I was up to about three in the morning. I’d already informed the Redstone school district to deactivate me from their call rolls in the off-chance that Clancy went into labor. It seemed pretty unlikely, but I… Continue Reading
We’ve got our checklists of the things that everybody knows every baby needs. For you parents out there, however, what’s missing from our checklist? What is the one thing that you had never heard about that you discovered after being… Continue Reading
I thank Burt for bringing this up: It’s worth bearing mind when we talk about things like “momentum” and “changing the dynamic” that since well before the conventions, Romney has never been projected to actually win. Very recently there have… Continue Reading
I thought Obama “won” and not by a little. He managed to both (a) soak up more time while (b) looking good doing it. I went back and watched the VP debate and thought that Biden came across as particularly… Continue Reading
I consider Obama’s presidency to be a mixed bag. There are things he has done that I support (Ending DADT, credit card reform, others I’m not thinking of) and things that I oppose (PPACA, Cash For Clunkers, GM Bailout, increasing… Continue Reading