One of the things I try to explain in my dissertation is the failure of Taiwan’s current educational policies. What do I mean by failure? This is a question that came up recently when Scott Sommers tried to answer a similar question. Scott did an admirable job of showing how politics has made it difficult [...]
I’ve added it to my blogroll, but it really deserves its own post. Nathan Newman has joined the borg at TPMCafe and is blogging up a storm about labor issues, along with a host of other excellent contributors. TPMCafe already has Warren Reports, under the aegis of Elizabeth Warren, which focuses on the difficulties faced [...]
Don’t blog Andrew Sullivan much around here, but this is a must: One great merit of the Schmidt report – which is otherwise riddled with worrying euphemisms, dismissal of troubling facts, exoneration of almost all commanders – is that we now know that almost every one of the Abu Ghraib techniques was practised and innovated [...]
I haven’t read the book, or seen the movie, but I can assure you that they will be issuing new printings of both versions of Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic. I missed it when it came out, as did Abhi on Sepia Mutiny. But has a post discussing the importance of the book now [...]
This site, using Google maps to show the location of all convicted sex offenders in Utah has me really freaked out. On the one hand, having entered the sample address: “185 S State, Salt Lake City, UT 84111″ to test the service out, I’m shocked at how many people are listed in the neighborhood. But [...]
Have an interesting link you think I’d be interested in? Tag it in del.icio.us with the tag “for:kerim” and I’ll see it when I look at http://del.icio.us/for. Not only does this have its own RSS feed which I can subscribe to (I already have), but its private so nobody else will see that you’ve sent [...]
I’ve been aware of the urban-rural divide ever since I read City Mouse-Country Mouse, but this graphic of the last election really put things in perspective: Found while reading this post by Ed Stephan at The Carpetbagger, which has some other useful links. And this chart: This really seems like the strongest argument I’ve seen [...]
Last week Bill Poser of Language Log had a post about Leo Stoller, a Chicago businessman who claims not only to have copyright over the word “stealth” but over all instances of the sequential combination of those letters. For instance, he tried suing a company whose URL is: Stealthisemail.com. Most people would read that as [...]
While Kevin Drum is worrying about “Doofus Dad Syndrome,” he’s missing the bigger picture. It may be true that today’s TV dad’s are more likely to be bumbling idiots, but they are doing much better than their 50′s counterparts: TV dad salaries have been on the rise. Salary.com’s team of compensation experts studied a sampling [...]
Zonble recently recorded this song, simply entitled: “No, I won’t fix your computer.” It sounds something like what the Ramones would sound like if they were Taiwanese cybergeeks. I liked it so much I translated it. I took a few liberties, but I think you’ll get the idea, although you really should listen to it. [...]