In addition to military bennies comes a likely big boost in pay December 29, 2010 Ike wouldn’t have liked this: Meanwhile the Congress has reluctantly offered better medical benefits for returning vets. If you wan’t to skimp on years… Continue Reading
When you’ve listened to a slick salesman… December 29, 2010 When you’ve been caught breaking the open meeting law, when you’ve been called on the carpet for it there is only one recourse….Payback. Punish… Continue Reading
And for the Editorial reaction December 29, 2010 The Timberjay editorializes about the previous two stories. Continue Reading
How JCI conducts business in violation of the open mtg law December 29, 2010 Again from the Timberjay. At the same time, four board members were found meeting together over drinks in a Virginia bar and restaurant following… Continue Reading
JCI’s dire warning all smoke December 29, 2010 Build our schools or you will die………another funny JCI joke. From the Timberjay. It’s an extraordinary improvement over the estimated $2.78 million budget gap… Continue Reading
And while we’re at it let’s burn reels of Miracle on 34th St. December 23, 2010 I’ll bet he votes a Republican. Continue Reading
a million a second for each second of the cosmos’s 14 billion years December 23, 2010 Forget counting grains of sand. Count the stars. “In his 1988 book Coming of Age in the Milky Way, the science writer Timothy Ferris… Continue Reading
Ipads for Proctor December 23, 2010 I don’t know if Proctor has white boards but they are getting ipads for their students. Oh, and unlike Duluth their school board chose… Continue Reading
“A pretty nice problem” December 22, 2010 Today’s story about ISD 709’S mid-year budgetary fixes prompted a friend to email me this little bit of twaddle from the Trib’s Editorial Board…. Continue Reading
And the band played Waltzing Matilda December 21, 2010 I think I heard Joan Baez’s version of this song a long time ago and found it less than memorable. I found this version… Continue Reading
Beat it December 21, 2010 The Michael Jackson song. If this site doesn’t eat up your time on the Internet nothing will. Just hit “new” and you can be… Continue Reading
If the universe is only 4,000 year … December 20, 2010 …that would then mean that this little reverie about the cosmos has been brought to us by another lying scientist making big bucks to… Continue Reading
Fair like a Fox December 18, 2010 A riposte with teeth. A couple thoughts. Fox News isn’t the same as Fox punditry, not that its all that great. There’s a guy… Continue Reading
Dumb like a Fox December 17, 2010 I always said listening to Limbaugh burned out brain cells. Fox is just as bad. Those who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly… Continue Reading
This will certainly encourage foreign travel December 17, 2010 Very cool. I almost regret that my next vacation is in Australia…….Naw. not really. I mean about the regrets. Continue Reading
Middle Schools phenomenon December 17, 2010 I just heard about this site on NPR this morning. When I saw an example of its use I decided to try it myself…. Continue Reading