In my classroom we have a movie day once a week. This “serves” as a “positive reinforcement of behavior”. I didn’t institute it, let me say that right now. It has varying degrees of “positiveness”, ranging from the lowest, being able to watch the movie at all, (well, I guess the real [...]

People of good intentions and progressive predilection are scratching their heads wondering just how President Barack Obama managed to turn himself into George W. Bush Lite with sugar-on-top just twelve weeks after that fateful walk down the US Capitol’s east stairway to the waiting helicopter. I’m hardly the first observer to note that Mr. Obama’s [...]

Saw these guys tonight at the Union: Big Dog Eat Child. Admittedly one of the better improv groups to hit our area, or at least compared to local improv groups. But still. Their shtick was throwing around “bitch”, The More You Know-esque shorts, old-school ghetto-Nintendo video games, and one of their songs [...]

Or perhaps more accurately, Advertisers to the YouTube Community: You have no value.

Apparently YouTube wants to get paid, son:

YouTube will soon unveil a redesign that clearly separates its premium and long-form programming from the user-posted videos that account for most of its activity.
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The new design will offer four tabs: Movies, Music, Shows, and Videos. The [...]

“When you tell somebody directions how to get to your place you gotta tell them it’s the third road on the left because there’s no sign to tell them how to get to Mullet Place,” said Richard Fleischfresser.
The city’s new solution: put the Mullet Place signs out of reach. Signs are usually about seven feet [...]