Noam Chomsky On American Education

Learning to obey is far different than learning to think, unfortunately.

Speeding Up In America

The Article: All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup by Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery in Mother Jones.

The Text: On a bright spring day in a wisteria-bedecked courtyard full of earnest, if half-drunk, conference attendees, we were commiserating with a fellow journalist about all the jobs we knew of that were going unfilled, being absorbed or handled “on the side.” It was tough for all concerned, but necessary—you know, doing more with less.

“Ah,” he said, “the speedup.”

His old-school phrase gave form to something we’d been noticing with increasing apprehension—and it extended far beyond journalism. We’d hear from creative professionals in what seemed to be dream jobs who were crumbling under ever-expanding to-do lists; from bus drivers, hospital technicians, construction workers, doctors, and lawyers who shame-facedly whispered that no matter how hard they tried to keep up with the extra hours and extra tasks, they just couldn’t hold it together. (And don’t even ask about family time.)

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There Are Pictures In My Mind Of You

Mellifluous and hazy. Two words that perfectly encapsulate Gypsy & The Cat’s “Bloom”.

Mitt Romney On Pornography

2007: When big government was Mittens’ latest bag.

Oscar Wilde On Telling The Truth

Hence why the GOP is so stone-faced.