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Interesting (if scathing) analysis of the American work ethic as it applies to school-age children. This piece makes a strong case for revamping the American educational system.
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: AMERICANS like to think of themselves as martyrs to work. They delight in telling stories about their punishing hours, snatched holidays and ever-intrusive BlackBerrys. But when it comes to the young the situation is reversed.
Not surprising...
2 FaversShareViewed: 14 TimesQuoted: American adults from young to old disagree increasingly today on social values, creating the largest generation gap since divisions 40 years ago over Vietnam, civil rights and women's liberation.
1 FaverShareViewed: 9 TimesQuoted: WASHINGTON—This baby just needs a little scrub down, said Biden, addressing a tour group as he tucked his sweat-covered top into the belt loop of his cutoff jean shorts.
click to playAmazing. I used to watch this as a kid.
1 FaverShareViewed: 31 TimesQuoted: Watch the free videos of the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited (JLU) this will be your league of superhero. Your resources and reference guide where you can find and review about your favorite justice league heroes.
Fascinating! I smell a blog post in this...
4 FaversShareViewed: 5 TimesQuoted: Americans used to move to where the jobs were. But now home-ownership and health insurance freeze many of them to the spot.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: He asked me where America was going to get the $700bn needed for the splurge. I reminded him that the legislation (at least last I looked) only authorized $350bn upfront and only $250bn of that would be funded initially. I pointed out to Nathan that if we up and left Irag this month and walked away from all of our financial commitments to Iraq and it’s security, we’d save $250bn over the next two years. We could use that money buying the crap assets, holding them through the downturn, and then flip them when things get better, hopefully for a profit. That’s a hell of a lot better than spending $250bn providing a police force for Iraq while they assemble an oil-funded surplus for their own account, not ours.
1 FaverShareViewed: 10 TimesQuoted: Viewpoint: As Washington rushes to nationalize troubled parts of the economy, the inescapable reality is that we're all French now
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