http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 10:32:09 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:32:09 The Gulf:
A kaleidoscope.

Pale green and gently choppy in a 42-year old photo of a 5 year old girl, being held tightly by her dad who didn't want her to drown. The dad is long gone, but she still has the photo.

Stormy and a tide coming in, on the one and only schoolday skipped in high schoo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/53 Mon, 10 May 2010 03:53:14 How useful it was to the "great industrialists" to oversee the transformation of citizen-based-education to worker-as-a-product education, where children are subjected to sorting for the first 12 years of their self-conscious lives. "Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/52 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:08:48 You've talked about how your mother taught you English at 5:30 in the morning and read to you about the American civil rights movement in the evening. If the Indonesian schools had an extended school day, would you still have had time to learn English and hear your mother's stories? You lost her at ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/51 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:41:33 Reading about UAW workers at GM prompted me to start wondering, why have union auto workers been vilified so much? One sometimes hears that unions are corrupt and that union top leaders (through history) end up taking money.. but America tolerates and even admires plenty of scammers. One hears that ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/49 Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:23 Watering down the curriculum and handicapping kids for the rest of their lives so that they are incapable of learning -- that is a separate part of the Bush plan.

We have a tiered education system where a majority are taught watered down useless trivia combined with rudimentary skills; a smaller... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/48 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:38:03 Tim Geithner is on Meet the Press as I write this, saying that 'we are a nation of laws' as a reason why the multimillion dollar bonuses must be paid to Wall Street even though they are receiving bailout funds. You the reader probably see the hypocrisy of this, for we are not a nation of laws when i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/47 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:17:16 "Those white parents who just didn't want their kids in desegregated schools" -- I tend to think that such people would have been ineffective up until the time that their agenda was determined to be useful by political or ideological elites. There were think tanks writing up papers and making speech... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/50 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:35:42 I sometimes take it as a creative challenge to explain complicated issues in ways that he can understand. On the drive to school yesterday, we talked about what it means to say that 'history doesn't repeat himself, but it does rhyme alot'. [i]"bear, bear, bear, bear"[/i] and [i]"bear, care, dare, fa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/46 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:58:13 A young man. He keeps his eyes open to watch TV. His eyes seem to be listening intently when his wife talks about what their new baby is doing. His hand on occasional will squeeze a yes or a no. On good days, with the right wide-awake-drugs, he might have a few hours of seeming wide awake, and will ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/44 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:54:14 Even if you know about the coup in Chile, even if you know about Argentina's runaway inflation, even if you know about Guatanamo, even if you knew about the CIA experiments on unwilling people with drugs and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, even if you mourned the response in New Orleans, fear the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/45 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:30:04 I am sorry that you had this sad news, but underneath your sorrow you are glad that at least you and yours have known such a beautiful bond. I believe that deep grief is always a sign of a deep and beautiful gratitude.

My son is about to enter 2nd grade, and I [i]want[/i] him to start a new scho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/43 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:56:57 [i]An eloquent [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3128796|thread] now in GD bemoans the current state: "Another “dogs with stars and elected ponies’ show” today, all with straight faces. Another bunch of multi-millionaires commenting on it, all wit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/42 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:41:26 Whatever good, well-meaning ideas get adopted, the bad guys co-opt them, distort, deplete, complicate, turn inside out, and use them for their own purposes.

Want a program to help poor women support their kids? They turn it into an excuse to allow the police to rummage through dresser drawers loo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/41 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:01:35 What is a good citizen? Many people I know who aren't politically knowledgeable (including many Republicans) nonetheless think it's important to vote. So elections become popularity contests or "personality politics", vague undercurrents of biases and identities magnified and further distorted by th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/40 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:32:26 I love your posts, Orwellian_ghost. And "The Corporation" was worth seeing.

Consider also looking hard at the interplay between corporatism and schooling -- not just the incursions of commercialism, but the historical roots and the intentional similarities in structure.

[u]TWELVE years out of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/39 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:07:13 Our health care system is usually faulted for those who DON'T get treated, or who go bankrupt because of medical bills, etc. These things are terrible. But another especially cruel aspect of American health care is what it imposes on those who are facing terminal illness. How would you want to spend... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/38 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:46:42 ought to read the jaw-dropping and eye-opening book "The Underground History of American Education".

Ever ask yourself: "why is our society so passive in the face of authority and authoritarianism?"
Are you very aware of such aspects of American society as
- the class system
- the propaganda s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/37 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:11:00 I'm halfway through 'Underground History'. It's a fascinating perspective. The very structure of schools -- to a great extent, regardless of actual content -- has acclimated us to the insidious expansion of fascism and top-down, centralized power. Where once a few years of schooling prepared people ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/36 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:15:39 Today, a microcosm: a single floor in a single workplace. Seven years ago, their salaries were steadily growing, and gas was less than $1.50.

[b]"I keep the heat off in the winter and wear sweaters and blankets, and leave the car parked in the driveway all weekend."[/b]

Since then, pay cuts, a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/35 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:53:39 The stifling small-town world of yesterday, for all of its many faults, had one advantage in that you largely knew "who you were dealing with" and pretenders could be identified. Prejudice against newcomers was both a tragedy and a defense.

Left-wing groups have a dilemma: how to be open to newco... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/34 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:00:46 I haven't posted at DU for a while mostly because I've got 1 or 2 hours per day of "my time" and I've been digging into my ancestry a bit, and into the ancestry for a couple of friends of mine, also. But DU, you're not far from my mind. I read the Greatest page just about every day but haven't been ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/33 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:12:10 Before logging on to DU this morning, I flip on the TV for a few minutes, and start to be lulled into soft thinking about Gerald Ford. Awww, of all the Republican presidents in recent history, he was the best, I am thinking. At least he was reasonable. Yes, he pardoned Nixon, but at least he also pa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/32 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:15:47 Young man, I didn't know you. I know your girlfriend's father quite well, though. More than a coworker, he's a friend or a "comrade", as we've commiserated over the horrendous decline of our government and even attended a protest or two together. Six or eight months ago, he started talking to me abo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/31 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:43:24 What ought to be common knowledge isn't, or James Baker would be skating on thin ice on charges of treason and fraud. [u]I hope everyone at DU is aware[/u] of the ground-breaking report by Naomi Klein in the November 2004 issue of the Nation, that [b]Baker was trying to convert the power of the US g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/30 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:34:35 After reading the AMAZING set of graphs in the DU research thread "[link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x4527|Wealth, Taxes, Income - facts/resources/articles]", which I HIGHLY recommend, I am pondering whether the "ownership society" much touted by Bush may... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/lostnfound/29 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:25:07