Tennessee's senior U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander has introduced S.659, with co-sponsors Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, which aims "to improve the teaching and learning of American history and civics." A new-to-me blog called the...
Today the WaPo ran an article on how Obama’s new lobbying regulations are hurting nonprofits and advocacy groups in DC. Initially, I was interested because I used to work for an advocacy organization within the Beltway and had a very...
I should have posted this on Friday, but I must gush about my new favorite blog, Barack Obama’s Telemprompter’s Blog.
Friday morning, I saw it posted on Facebook from a DC friend. I immediately sent it to all my right-leaning friends...
Granted Paul Krugman hasn’t been the biggest fan of Obama, but I found his column today interesting.
It’s as if the president were determined to confirm the growing perception that he and his economic team are out of touch, that their...
Hopefully you've noticed some positive changes in Modern Girls Kitchen over the past few months. You might also have noticed that MGK has been pretty quiet for the past few weeks. That's because in true Modern Girl style, life, work...
Oh good, Howard Dean will straighten out lying Larry Kudlow. Erin Burnette, Jim Cramer, Joe Kernen, and the rest of the Milton Friendman worshipping minions at CNBC, your gig is up. There is a fact checker coming to...
Nobel Prize-winning Paul Krugman despairs over the plan as he understands it now (we’ll see if that changes now that we have an “official” unveiling”).
Also-very-smart Brad DeLong shares a less popular but sunnier outlook and offers an FAQ. ...
Because I'm taking part in the Ultimate Blogging Party, I'm visiting about 10,000 new blogs.
I forgot how much time that takes; therefore, I shall not be posting here at PENSIEVE today.
Except for this enumerated list, which really doesn't count, does...
listening to music that makes me want to go out hiking in the heat of the day along dry streams where flies buzz and spiders dangle, feeling the occasional cool pocket of breath along the stream bed-- feeling the...
Quenston Coleman, Thomas Mott, and Jackie Thomas endorsed J.T. McDaniel for the District 9 council seat on Saturday outside of McDaniel’s campaign headquarters. Mr. Coleman said:
Our strong leader should have grassroots support. They should have eyes for what needs to...
Now that spring's here, I can post some winter pictures without feeling cold. Although we did have a tiny amount of snow in Tennessee this winter, we really saw the most on our Christmas trip to Pennsylvania, New York, and...
I’ve had a fun week and a half, but I’m ready to be at home for a while now. Tonight will be the first night since 3/12 that I’ve spent back-to-back nights at home and the first night in almost...
One of my favorite in class activities is writing a quote on the board and listening to students' opinions. Some of the quotes are ones that are interesting for them, but not so much for me. Others have planted themselves...
This is long overdue but I’m finally getting a chance to write again. Harper Emerson Hale arrived, like all of my other children, off schedule on March 5 at 8:13pm. She weighed 6 pounds 4 ounces and came into this......
Is There A First Amendment Right To Fart?
A Lakeland eighth grader, accused of breaking wind while riding a school bus, has been suspended for three days from bus transportation in the Polk County school district.
The 15-year-old boy was written up...
From ESPN: Hopes for ACC may rest on Duke-UNC Saturday, March 21, 2009 Posted by Heather Dinich GREENSBORO, N.C. -- And then there were two. Welcome to the Greensboro Coliseum, the mecca of ACC basketball, where Duke and North Carolina remain the league's two...
From ESPN: Hopes for ACC may rest on Duke-UNC Saturday, March 21, 2009 | Print Entry Posted by Heather Dinich GREENSBORO, N.C. -- And then there were two. Welcome to the Greensboro Coliseum, the mecca of ACC basketball, where Duke and North Carolina remain...
Last week, two Chattarati writers set out to live large on an honest budget—eating out everyday for five days on a daily ration of $8.00. Did they succeed? Find out as Veronique Bergeron gives us a recap.
It’s time for some...
Living the Bible with an Ex-Con
How insects got their wings (?)
This study “makes a compelling story for how [insect wing evolution] would occur in a terrestrial situation,” says evolutionary ecologist Joel Kingsolver of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill....
Since I now have two boys and am the oldest of three myself, I decided to go looking for quotes about boys, I found many good ones, this week I like this one..."A Boy is...Trust with dirt on its face,Beauty...
We’ve all heard of “Muffin Top” when someones pants are too small and they get that “tire” around the middle also known as “Muffin Top”. It’s somewhat the same if a woman wears a bra too small she gets...
I'm not sure if Tut-Tut invented the Music Monday but I am emulating her trend anyway. It's a great idea. Mondays are always so difficult when one is returning to the work week that something is needed to jump-start the...
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