“I’m bored.” I see the phrase all the time, usually posted by a teenager online. For some odd, unfathomable reason, young people feel compelled to document their every bowel movement on Facebook and Twitter (although a growing number of adults suffer from the same malady). On all too many occasions, the best that the acne-plagued [...]
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Is Your Child Failing Math? Thank a State Bureaucrat
Posted by BobG on January 21st, 2011
Two years ago, Kathy Cox and the state Board of Education totally abandoned traditional algebra, geometry and statistics curricula in favor of fast-paced “integrated math” classes. In the latest iteration of the “new math,” students are presented with two or three new concepts daily instead of spending sufficient time to master a single concept before [...]
Posted in Global Idiocy, It Must Be Said, Politics & Government 
Tags: accelerated math, georgia education, john barge 
3 Comments »NAACP Confirms Its Irrelevance
Posted by BobG on January 20th, 2011
“How does covering up a statue of George Washington [at a MLK rally] advance the interests of colored people?” asked radio talk show host Neal Boortz. For the annual MLK rally on Monday, the NAACP of South Carolina built a plywood box around a statue of the nation’s first president on the steps of the [...]
The `Bush Tax Cuts` Explained
Posted by BobG on December 6th, 2010
Can I give you the layman’s summary of the ongoing debate over the “Bush era tax cuts”? Most of my readers understand this intuitively, but I offer the following in the unlikely event that an intellectually honest Democrat or “Progressive” might drop by. It really is no more complicated than this: The U.S. has a [...]
