love god and do as you please - Google Search

love god and do as you please - Google Search: "'Love God, then do as you please.' Augustine was not talking about libertarianism, which is the freedom to do whatever ..."

What It Takes to Make a Student - New York Times

What It Takes to Make a Student - New York Times: "In her book “Unequal Childhoods,” published in 2003, Lareau described the costs and benefits of each approach and concluded that the natural-growth method had many advantages. Concerted cultivation, she wrote, “places intense labor demands on busy parents. ... Middle-class children argue with their parents, complain about their parents’ incompetence and disparage parents’ decisions.” Working-class and poor children, by contrast, “learn how to be members of informal peer groups. They learn how to manage their own time. They learn how to strategize.” But outside the family unit, Lareau wrote, the advantages of “natural growth” disappear. In public life, the qualities that middle-class children develop are consistently valued over the ones that poor and working-class children develop. Middle-class children become used to adults taking their concerns seriously, and so they grow up with a sense of entitlement, which gives them a confidence, in the classroom and elsewhere, that less-wealthy children lack. The cultural differences translate into a distinct advantage for middle-class children in school, on standardized achievement tests and, later in life, in the workplace."

Free Services to Inspire Your Cellphone - New York Times

Free Services to Inspire Your Cellphone - New York Times: "Try 800-FREE-411 (800-373-3411) instead. A computer or human being looks up a number for you at no charge, once you’ve listened to a 20-second ad. It’s a classic time-for-money swap.

Or, for an ad-free option, there is a little-known Google service. Send a text message to 46645 (that’s “Google”; leave off the last E for efficiency). In the body of the message, type what you’re looking for, like “Roger McBride 10025” or “chiropractor dallas tx.” Seconds later, you get a return message from Google, complete with the name, address, and phone number.

FREE ANSWERS Google’s 46645 text-messaging service can fetch much more than phone numbers. It can also send you the weather report (in the body, type, for example, “weather sacramento”), stock quotes (“amzn”), where a movie is showing nearby (type “flushed away 44120”), what a word means (“define schadenfreude”), driving directions (“miami fl to 60609”), unit conversions (“liters in 5 gallons”), currency conversions (“25 usd in euros”), and so on.

Every cell carrier charges for text messages — about 10 cents each, unless you have a plan that includes them. But Goog"

Top-Secret Torture - washingtonpost.com

Top-Secret Torture - washingtonpost.com: "BURIED WITHIN a recent government brief in the case of Guantanamo Bay inmate Majid Khan is one of the more disturbing arguments the Bush administration has advanced in the legal struggles surrounding the war on terrorism. Mr. Khan was one of the al-Qaeda suspects who was detained in a secret prison of the CIA and subjected to 'alternative' interrogation tactics -- the administration's chilling phrase for methods most people regard as torture. Now the government is arguing that by subjecting detainees to such treatment, the CIA gives them 'top secret' classified information -- and the government can then take extraordinary measures to keep them quiet about it. If this argument carries the day, it will make virtually impossible any accountability for the administration's treatment of top al-Qaeda detainees. And it will also ensure that key parts of any military trials get litigated in secrecy."

Ken Adelman: A Rat Abandons a Ship of Fools (Harpers.org)

Ken Adelman: A Rat Abandons a Ship of Fools (Harpers.org): "Adelman's hypocrisy is stunning. In 2002 it was he who famously predicted that American forces would enjoy “a cakewalk” in Iraq, and during the run-up to the invasion he derided war critics for their stupidity and naiveté. “There's always the chicken littles, running around and saying 'oh my God, it's terrible,'” he said on Hardball, six days before the war began, when asked about the possibility that things might not go as smoothly as he and his fellow-hawks had predicted.

The following month, he was gloating to the New York Times that his “cakewalk” prediction had been remarkably prescient. Adelman, according to the story, “scorned recent complaints by retired generals and military analysts that the Pentagon had deployed too few troops” to Iraq. “I always thought that was ridiculous,” Adelman told the newspaper. “It turned out they were factually wrong. I never understood what having three times as many troops would have done.”"

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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Get your Democracy Bond and help build a 50-state Democratic Party!

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. . . Beyond the honors, though, are the many stories about Hunter.

One of the most famous was his 1951 Fourth of July story. The city editor told him to dream up a story for the holiday. As Hunter was leaving the newsroom, he saw a copy of the Declaration of Independence posted on the wall.

'I went by and saw it and thought, this is real revolutionary,' he recalled in a 2001 interview with reporter Mike Miller of The Capital Times. 'I wonder if I could get people to sign it now.'

So took the preamble to the Declaration, six of the 10 amendments that make up the Bill of Rights plus the 15th Amendment, typed them up in the form of a petition, and headed to Vilas Park to see if people would sign it.

This was at the height of the hysteria over McCarthy's allegations that Communists were everywhere. Of the 112 people Hunter talked to that day, only one would sign the petition. Twenty of those he asked ac"

Stanley Fish - Think Again - Allison Arieff - Opinion - TimesSelect - New York Times Blog

Stanley Fish - Think Again - Allison Arieff - Opinion - TimesSelect - New York Times Blog: "Announcing your political views at the outset as a way of alerting students to your possible bias makes sense only if it is the business of the class to approve some or other political view at the end of the day; and if you do announce your political views, even in the spirit of full disclosure, you will be sending the message that approving a political view is indeed the business of the class. If, on the other (and better) hand, you start right out subjecting the topic to an academic interrogation – inquiring into matters of structure, history, influence, etc. – the nakedly political questions will never emerge and there will be nothing to insulate the students from. The rule is (or should be) that with respect to academic disputes, the instructor, rather than taking pains to present both sides equally, should steer students in the direction of the side she considers right; but with respect to political disputes the instructor should bring opposing sides into the discussion only as objects of analysis and never as objects of choice. Being biased toward an academic position is a good thing. (It shows that you care.) Entering into a relationship of any affective kind with a political position is not. That has been my message from the beginning, and I declare it once again in the hope that you will"

Shweder -Moral Realism Without the Ethnocentrism: Is It Just A List of Empty Truisms? (conference paper)

Shweder -Moral Realism Without the Ethnocentrism: Is It Just A List of Empty Truisms? (conference paper)

CNN.com - Elections 2006

CNN.com - Elections 2006: "VOTE BY INCOME
TOTAL Democrat Republican
Less Than $100,000 (78%) 55% 43%
$100,000 or More (22%) 47% 52%


VOTE BY EDUCATION
TOTAL Democrat Republican
No High School (3%) 64% 35%
H.S. Graduate (21%) 55% 44%
Some College (31%) 51% 47%
College Graduate (27%) 49% 49%
Postgraduate (18%) 58% 41%


VOTE BY EDUCATION
TOTAL Democrat Republican
No College Degree (55%) 53% 45%
College Graduate (45%) 53% 46%


VOTE BY EDUCATION
TOTAL Democrat Republican
No College Education (24%) 56% 43%
College Educated (76%) 52% 46%
"

How Democrats won the election by stealing wealthy voters from the GOP. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

How Democrats won the election by stealing wealthy voters from the GOP. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine: "The exit polls aggregate votes for the House on a broad geographic basis: East, West, Midwest, and South. Yesterday, the poll for the House vote in the East showed that the 25 percent of the electorate making over $100,000 went big for Democrats overall, 57-42, compared with a 49-48 margin in 2004. In 2006, those making between $150,000 and $200,000 voted for Democratic candidates by a whopping 63-37 majority, and those making more than $200,000 went Democratic by a slim 50-48 margin. That's a huge shift from 2004, when Republicans took the $150,000 to $200,000 demographic 50-48 and rang up a huge victory among the over $200,000 set: 56-40. In 2006, Democratic candidates racked up big wins among college graduates—63-35, compared with 55-42 in 2004—and among those with postgraduate degrees—68-31, compared with 58-38 in 2004."

Must We Talk? - New York Times

Must We Talk? - New York Times: "Consider an experiment last year, when groups of Coloradans convened separately in Boulder and Colorado Springs to discuss global warming, affirmative action and civil unions for same-sex couples. Before the discussions, the people in Boulder were on average more liberal than the ones in Colorado Springs, but there were also moderates in both places whose opinions overlapped.

After the group discussions, the people in Boulder moved to the left, and those in Colorado Springs moved to the right. The researchers — David Schkade, Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie — concluded that “the major effect of deliberation was to make group members more extreme than they were before they started to talk.”

This effect hasn’t been studied much in politics, but it’s well documented in other arenas. When jurors deliberate how much to award in damages, they often end up giving more than the average juror originally thought was fair — and sometimes more than anyone in the group originally favored. The more they talk, the more they reinforce one another’s indignation."

The Difference Two Years Made - New York Times

The Difference Two Years Made - New York Times: "After the revelations about the abuse, torture and illegal detentions in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Congress shielded the Pentagon from any responsibility for the atrocities its policies allowed to happen. On the eve of the election, and without even a pretense at debate in the House, Congress granted the White House permission to hold hundreds of noncitizens in jail forever, without due process, even though many of them were clearly sent there in error.

In the Senate, the path for this bill was cleared by a handful of Republicans who used their personal prestige and reputation for moderation to paper over the fact that the bill violates the Constitution in fundamental ways. Having acquiesced in the president’s campaign to dilute their own authority, lawmakers used this bill to further Mr. Bush’s goal of stripping the powers of the only remaining independent branch, the judiciary."

The Difference Two Years Made - New York Times

The Difference Two Years Made - New York Times: "The current Republican majority managed to achieve that burned-out, brain-dead status in record time, and with a shocking disregard for the most minimal ethical standards. It was bad enough that a party that used to believe in fiscal austerity blew billions on pork-barrel projects. It is worse that many of the most expensive boondoggles were not even directed at their constituents, but at lobbyists who financed their campaigns and high-end lifestyles."

Moscow Police Detain Ultranationalists - New York Times

Moscow Police Detain Ultranationalists - New York Times