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Kids Serving Time as Adults

By Donal on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 2:25pm |

One of my college profs told us that the concept of childhood is fairly recent. In Western culture, children were considered, and depicted, as small adults until the 17th century, which is roughly coincident with the early beginnings of the industrial revolution. Children always had chores in agrarian societies, but were thrust into more dangerous industrial jobs in tanneries and mills, leading to arguments by Rousseau, and later Dickens, that childhood be given special consideration and protection.

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No Gotcha Allowed

By Donal on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 9:38am |

The Daily Dish mentioned a "news snippet" about the Montana governor's race, which led back through The Lost Ogle not to a news snippet, but to FallinFail, a site presumably opposing Republican candidate Mary Fallin.

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Waiting for Zuckerberg

By Donal on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 7:53pm |

In 1994 my former wife and I were snowed in for three days at her teacher's convention in Hershey PA. Afterwards, someone had a t-shirt printed, "I Survived The Paradigm Drift." That was an in-joke because some greybeard had given a talk about his book advocating a paradigm shift in American teaching. Jaime Escalante had also spoken about his achievements in teaching higher math to lower class kids.

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Blowing Gun Smoke

By Donal on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 10:33pm |



We are often advised not to resist armed criminals because our lives are less replaceable than money. Statistically, that is sound advice, but nothing is 100% certain.

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Take a picture, it'll last longer

By Donal on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 12:55pm |




Admittedly goth Jennifer Fastwolf, above, was chilling on her transit ride, when someone snapped a picture of her.

Clandestine photo upsets CTA rider
Request to remove image from Web site met with resistance

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Boudreau does not mean Boudoir

By Donal on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 10:15am |



I can't believe James O'Keefe actually thought he had a shot at Abbie Boudreau, a CNN reporter, err Investigative Correspondent.

Our Documentary Takes A Strange Detour

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Failed States, Vigilantism, Open Carry

By Donal on Fri, 09/24/2010 - 1:07pm |

 
El Diario de Juárez, having lost another journalist to a retaliatory slaying by the drug cartels, released an issue with a direct question to the cartels (Translation):

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Ice Station Zulu

By Donal on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 4:56pm |



Climate Change is opening up a new frontier. In The struggle for Arctic riches, the BBC previews a potential resource war:

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Has Obama Lost the Middle Class?

By Donal on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 11:12am |



At the Atlantic, Joshua Green suggests that Obama's policy wins seem to be addressing the working poor, rather than the middle class. And he quotes Senator Charles Schumer to support his position:

The Angry Middle Class

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Win Ben Stein's Taxes

By Donal on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 7:52am |

Win BS Money

Deadpan actor and pitchman Ben Stein feels put upon.

Ben Stein: Raising My Taxes Is a Punishment

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