It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.
The media conglomerates cart out these mealy mouth presumptive mouth-pieces because the oligarchical owners want to hear what mouth-pieces want to say in order to assuage their predilections about themselves and what a social construction looks like.
It's convenient, for instance, for the wealthy to believe that they "earned" their wealth and are thus more deserving of privileges, whether or not the underlying assumptions of "deserving" are actually ... true.
Cough cough - elon musk - Cough cough.
Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 1h 38m 22s
The Deficit Myth
This is a decent primer on MMT -- Modern Monetary Theory -- how financial interactions actually work in the "Real" world.
Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 12h 56m 14s
Jon Stewart on the American Tax system
Simply put, we pay taxes and the government gives the money to private for-profit firms to provide goods and services who then often funnel that money through sub-contractors that also sometimes then ask the citizens to pay "service fees" or "deductibles". The end result enriches the middlemen corporations at the expense of shoddy services.
Friday, 25 August 2023 at 4h 17m 37s
And then to get to 1600 posts -- from Tech News Daily
Rich Jerks are gonna get us all killed (sarcasm?).
These dudes are younger than me, live in L.A., and have relevant points and silly banter when they discuss good stuff and truth.
Friday, 25 August 2023 at 3h 15m 31s
Keith Olbermann is the bomb
Keith Olbermann is doing regular new shows in his retirement, using his unique personality, cogent insight, and veritable incisive facts.
Today's show was really good in my opinion.
Saturday, 12 August 2023 at 4h 50m 54s
My response to a sophisticated elitist
My response to a sophisticated elitist that uses IQ scores as scientific fact that their beliefs about racial superiority are supported by (construed and noisy) data
You don't understand confounding factors and multi-variate analysis --Because environmental opportunity is not equally distributed across all groups in our society, social context effects have masqueraded as group differences in research studies.
Friday, 11 August 2023 at 2h 20m 31s
My view of classroom management
When I “discipline” students, I explain to them the reasoning behind my protocols and procedures. It’s not a power trip. It’s not like “you disobeyed me” and therefore there must be a penalty or punishment. Which is ridiculous, because the instinctive reaction for everyone about a perspective of disobedience is resistance ... and resistance can be either active, passive, or both.
However there comes the time when raising the level of insistence becomes necessary, when you have a recalcitrant adolescent brat who only really responds to a brutal verbal take down with wit or rhetorical whiplash.
For example, “So how many times this week are you going be tardy?” – Or – “I don’t know, where might the instructions for the activity be located? Did you read the paragraph on the top of the page?”
However, you do have to be aware of when the above tactics are necessary, because guilt-tripping is not really effective, so you have to straddle the rhetoric with playfulness. You have to couch the rhetoric as banter or the intent will get misinterpreted, and then all you have done is create resentment. You want students to understand that you respect them, but at the same time calling them out on their irrational dysfunctional behavior is an attempt to help them become better people.
True power comes from knowledge, wisdom, and truth. Everything else is an over compensation. If you feel vulnerable because someone presses your buttons or confronts you with a modicum of truth, that is normal. When you over-react, that is a sign of another personal issue or lingering unacknowledged insecurity, and your classroom management issues just get worse.
Monday, 7 August 2023 at 0h 37m 40s
Sten Ekberg on the truth about Eggs and Heart Disease
Excellent simplified explanation of whats going with Cardiovascular Disease, Cholesterol and Saturated Fat.