Who is Paul Zachary Myers? He’s an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota at Morris and a self-proclaimed “card-carrying” atheist.
Mr. Myers has drawn the ire of the President of the Catholic League Bill Donohue for a blog posting that appeared on the University’s servers. In the wake of a story that appeared [...]

Though it has been forever and a day since anybody in the blogosphere has read a word from my befuddled and now pregnancy hormone enraged brain, I am alive and do (on occasion) get the chance and have the energy to pay attention to what is going on in the world beyond my growing belly. [...]

Those who are buying in to Barack Hussein Obama’s promise to withdraw all troops from Iraq starting his first day in office might want to pay attention to a news report from FoxNews.com. The headling reads…
Obama Adviser Suggests Up to 80,000 Troops Remain in Iraq By 2010
From FoxNews.com:
As Barack Obama continues to criticize John McCain [...]

An anti-union group is offering $10,000 each to the 10 worst teachers in the US. Conditions? They must be union and must have tenure (can’t be fired).
The Center for Union Facts hopes that offering severance packages will thin out the 10 worst teachers because no matter how bad they are, they cannot be fired.
The Criteria:
1. [...]

A California judge has ordered a family to enroll their children into government school or a “legally qualified” private school and the children must attend. The suit was brought by “child advocates” on behalf of the couple’s two youngest children. All of the couple’s 8 children have been home-schooled, the oldest is 29 years old. [...]

First it started out as a prank, then it grew into a protest of the size of their lunches when 29 students from Readington Middle School paid for their lunches entirely with pennies. The school, not being too enthused with receiving 6,000 coins as payment for 29 lunches, issued all 29 students 2 days [...]

This week, John McCain did something risky. He denounced Bill Cunningham’s statements about Obama to buddy up to Independent and Moderates. The Moderates will stay if he don’t pander to them and the Independents are likely to split if he doesn’t. However, by pandering to them, the Conservatives that were starting to get on board [...]

A retired teacher for the Oceanside California School District taught classes for 17 years in spite of the fact that he couldn’t read, write, or spell. That’s right, a person who was responsible for insuring teenagers were able to read, write, and spell was unable to do those things himself. This revelation must horrify the [...]

The other day I wrote a post called “How Much Does Iowa Really Mean Anyway?” which included an error which I was called on. I quickly struck through the inaccuracy (on Gribbit’s Word) without explaining.
I said, “In 2004 John Kerry didn’t do well in Iowa or New Hampshire” which isn’t accurate. Kerry actually won both [...]

The CBS Affiliate in New York, WCBSTV, is reporting that a high school principal in East Harlem has instructed teachers to “dumb down” standards. Now the city is stepping in.
From WCBSTV:
Last month, Principal Bennett Lieberman sent off a stern memo to teachers.
“If you are not passing more than 65 percent of your students in a [...]