Random links
- How Self-Expression Damaged My Students
- "Every decent human impulse we have as teachers shouts in favor of not imposing rules and discipline on students, but liberating them to discover the power of their voice by sharing their stories. ... Grammar? Mechanics? Correcting errors? Please. Great writing is discovery. ... Like so many of our earnest and most deeply humane ideas about educating children in general, and poor, urban children in particular, this impulse toward authenticity is profoundly idealistic, seductive, and wrong. I should know. I used to damage children for a living with that idealism."
- Sexism? Policy change at Community Legal Aid favours females, stirs outrage
- "Community Legal Aid will no longer represent anyone accused of domestic violence — as long as that person is a man." Community Legal Aid is the student legal aid group run at the University of Windsor so it's somewhat less a "community" group than a university-affiliated one. Given that laws surrounding domestic violence seem to suggest if-male-you're-screwed they might as well be honest about the situation.
- Should there be required labeling of GMOs?
- "I would in fact be more supportive of the GMO labeling idea if renowned food writers such as Bittman, and many others including left-wing economists, would come out and boldly proclaim the science about GMOs to their readers. ... Overuse of antibiotics and animal treatment (both cruelty and environmental issues) — now those are two very real problems, backed by overwhelming scientific evidence. The fact that the California referendum is instead about GMOs — which have overwhelming scientific evidence for net benefit and minimal risks - is the real scandal."
- Why the Death of Mom-and-Pop Pharmacies Has Been Great for Women
- The quick version: being a cog in a large chain, working a job with no long projects and no potential for advancement, allows much greater opportunity for part-time work.