The creator of those materials is, apparently, entities preparing PARCC materials that many states are using for CC. The questions aren't coming from the local folks. Given the unbelievably badly-worded questions that exist on the tests today (I've seen some samples), it's hard to argue that the tests are…

What I'm seeing on PARCC prep materials and homework are the kids being asked to draw very, very specific kinds of pictures for specific kinds of problems.

Part of the issue - and I have a kid in this situation - is that if you have a kid who's good at math, but terrible at drawing pictures - grading becomes about his or her ability to draw out a picture, rather than to understand and solve the problem, which is bullshit. Most of the time he can solve the problem in his…

Let's face it - the part that sucks is waking the kids up. As a parent (and we had standard baby monitors - the kind that you could pull the audio from with an old enough TV that had a UHF band that went high enough), that would piss me off.

It's likely that they can at least prevent him from making any management decisions beyond whether or not to sell his stake in the team. MLB did that to Marge Schott, the late, former owner of the Reds. Once you lose day-to-day control, you're likely to sell.

Sports leagues have a lot of control over who can own and who can run a team. MLB banned Marge Schott from being the managing general partner and the CEO of the Reds after she made comments praising the domestic policies of Nazi Germany. She also disliked the Japanese, Jews, and African-Americans. She sold her stake…

I suspect if you were to take a poll, many Americans think more highly of folks in the adult industry than the folks who run JP Morgan Chase.

The effect where disgust reactions are reduced during sexual arousal? That doesn't generally apply to you, when you return home and have to clean up whatever substances the renters have left around your place. You've got to have a strong stomach or an iron wall of denial to actually want to deal with that.

I have two better theories:

I really wish this had been some sort of Biblical-level rodent incursion, and not just a few mice. Perhaps the back wall bursting open and waves of mice pouring out.

Actually, I'll amend my comment. I suspect the older the abuser, especially if they've done it more than once, the more likely they are to put themselves in a situation where they can manipulate someone.

I seriously doubt it for many of them. Most American students are still teenagers when they go to university. Many don't pick a course of study until after they get there - or they change, and many don't decide to become teachers until they're trying to figure out what to do for a career. Depending on the state,…

Seriously. You'd go nuts. And not just stuff like this - the potential opportunity cost or risk created by every damn decision would drive you nuts if you actually think about it.

I can only think of one reaction to those.

Little known fact: the prevalence of bagpipers in North America is the direct result of a decades-old, planned breeding program. So many have been reintroduced into the wild that they're likely to be removed from the endangered list any year now.

Can you imagine the Snapchats between them? Oh, wait, don't. You'll throw up a little.

The whole notion of selling out vs. a punk/DIY ethos goes back to the early days of the original punk movement. This isn't a new tension. Given the nature of Pussy Riot, I can't blame the remaining members. It's supposed to be anonymous, non-commercial and feminist. This is supposed to be something subversive. A…

Maybe. The point-of-sale malware is being developed rapidly.
If it just changes the tool selection, it's not much good against well-funded, organized criminals.

There have been reports for more than a year about techniques to bypass 'Chip & PIN'style cards in Europe. They're not going to solve all problems.

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