President Obama laid out his education plan today, and I’m a little confused by it. Specifically, I’m looking for the part that is completely bizarre and makes no sense. I’m not seeing it. I’m not sure that this will ever be anything but rhetoric, though: he urged states to develop standards “that don’t simply measure [...]
Today’s gold star is actually not here on PeteHoliday.com but over at Roll Bama Roll where I wrote 1,700 words on the latest NCAA infractions nonsense. I will say that the authors at RBR have this infractions case locked down . . . pretty much every detail, from every conceivable angle is covered at length. The [...]
I think the Atlanta Journal-Constitution needs a new headline editor. A few weeks ago they proclaimed “MARTA to run less trains on MLK holiday,” now they’re heralding a local hospital building at $35 facility: Hell, at that price why not get two? I mean, honestly, how hard is proof-reading these things?
I seldom talk about basketball because, Indiana University degree notwithstanding, I don’t follow it very closely. That said, this has got to be one of the most aggravating minor recruiting violations in recent memory, in any sport: According to the report, when assistant coach Roshown McLeod left a voice mail for Muniru on Oct. [...]
If you do not read Stuff White People Like, you are missing out. While it is another example of the kind of thing that could never be written about most other races here in the U.S., it is still hilarious. Here’s an excerpt from today’s new post: Much like virtually everything else that white [...]
I can’t say that I find this particularly shocking: New research shows that, in men, the brain areas associated with handling tools and the intention to perform actions light up when viewing images of women in bikinis. I mean, really? Handling “tools” and “performing actions?” That joke pretty much writes itself, actually. The author of [...]
I’m always on the look-out for ways to motivate me to do things that I want to do regularly but don’t have to do and aren’t particularly fun. Or things I want to do regularly, are fun, but sometimes I just forget. Like blogging, for example. Lots of the big gaps in posting over the years [...]
And you thought Americans were fat, check this out: FIVE new mega-lift ambulances to transport obese people to hospital are about to be rolled out across NSW to meet a growing demand for the vehicles. NSW Health Minister John Della Bosca, who inspected the vehicles on Sunday, said 576 [...]
Okay, so this couple attached a digital camera to their cat’s collar one day a week for a year, set it to take pictures every two minutes, and then blogged them. The pictures were so good that the cat got a freakin’ photo exhibit at an art gallery. Okay, that’s silly enough, right? It’s somewhat funny [...]
So that was a pretty decent game last night. Mostly thanks to what I think was a really poor officiating job, but since I didn’t really care all that much who won, I was happy it was a good game. More interestingly, though, it’s a shame more of the country didn’t get to see the best [...]