Trying to crank this blog back to unholy life...

A (depressing) report from the frontlines on how the NCGOP are destroying public schools:
https://dianeravitch.net/2016/05/03/stuart-egan-how-the-north-carolina-legislature-and-governor-are-destroying-public-schools-and-the-teaching-profession/

Just a reminder: Do not update your DB on a "GET" request. Ever. EVER.

Breaking: @RealDonaldTrump revealed to actually be Nyarlathotep in disguise.
https://twitter.com/business/status/726124945273708544
CC: @cthulhu4america

Not sure I fully understand him, let alone agree, but this Q&A w/ Hoffman about "conscious realism" is a good read. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/

All too real. // The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/

Tea is coffee.

Leaves are beans.

Scones are donuts.

https://twitter.com/openculture/status/723617658969554945

"It is impossible... to cleave the desire to help people from the duty to respect them." - @emmettrensin

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism

Yeti Bathroom Hysteria by @petridishes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/04/22/keep-yetis-out-of-public-restrooms/