Archive for November 18th, 2010
Bad news for unions: Waiting for Superman makes Best Documentary short list
As many people as possible need to see “Waiting for Superman”, the documentary of how teachers’ unions have ruined public education in this country.
They resist needed reforms.
They keep bad, and sometimes dangerous, teachers in classrooms and won’t let principals fire them.
Worst of all, they suck up 60% of budgets on administration, lavish pensions, and other nonsense, leaving children to suffer.
Unions are the bane of this country.
Maybe if enough people see what they do to the children, things can start changing.
I hope “Waiting for Superman” wins Best Documentary because it is the best documentary I have ever seen.
Obama named "god of all things" by Newsweek
http://www.coverjunkie.com/new-covers/2785
Newsweek has named Obama “god of all things” and depicts him as Shiva the Destroyer on its latest cover.
It has been years since I have been to the Cleveland Museum of Art, but I remember a field trip there in high school where a docent told us Shiva was a female goddess whose mission was to destroy the world by creating multiple disasters all at once, using all of her arms.
Calling any president a god is absurd and blasphemous.
Calling Obama the Destroyer and Bringer of Disaster is, however, apt.
Instead of Shiva, I would depict him as either Babylonian destroyer Gozer the Gozarian or the spoiled Glorificus from the Buffyverse.
Either way, our inept, fey president is best represented by deranged goddesses of destruction.
Newsweek doesn’t appreciate the irony of any of this.
I, however, did enjoy making both a Ghostbusters and a Claire Kramer reference, in the same sentence.
At last!
The abandoned malls of Chicago
This is Century Mall near Boystown.
When I moved here in 2004 or so, it was thriving. Every shop was full.
They had a kooky little place that only sold retro board games.
There was a men’s underwear shop that had live models and latenight pajama-jammy-jam fashion shows.
In the basement, there was Eatzi’s, which was an upscale market and deli with overpriced, gourmet foods.
The mall itself was a movie palace in the 20s, before being carved into a mall (keeping a gorgeous rococco exterior) with, funnily enough, an arthouse movie theater on the top floors.
This is where the Reeling LGBTQ film festival was held last week.
In the last two years, Century has largely collapsed. The hipster, kooky stores are gone. In their place, a few junky, oddball, discount places appeared for a while. Those are gone now too.
There’s a woman who threads eyebrows and does henna tattoos. She is very nice, but never seems busy.
On the lowest level, there’s still a Body Shop, and the Aveda salon, and they probably stay in business because of the cruisy Bally’s upstairs (which has the only gang showers in a 20 mile radius that’s not Steamworks). So, with that gay magnet, it’s still weird the underwear store went under, but the rest all makes sense.
How are the malls near you doing?
Are they creepy ghost malls now too?
MUST READ: TSA allows rifles and pistols on plane, but not nail clippers
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/11/18/another-tsa-outrage/
Seriously.
A must read.
The ineptitude of the TSA is so great Epic Fail would be a compliment.
Governor Palin refudiates Ben Bernake in Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703326204575616901259121246.html
My favorite part of this is where the Governor was on a plane talking about all this with someone who told her to write this letter, and she did.
How awesome is that?
The Governor really listens when you talk to her…and she is the nicest person too.
“You bet I will” is something I can clearly hear her saying looking someone dead in the eyes and letting that Saracuda fire shimmer for a second.
The woman, in a word, is awesome.
STUNNING: Jon Stewart defends the Palins and calls Left crazy
In this HotAir piece, there is also a little blurb about the Left and media (redundant, I know) having a full-on nervous breakdown when Bristol wins Dancing with the Stars.
How seriously great would that be?
How about organizing a Team Bristol watch party for Monday and getting all your friends to bring their cells and laptops over so you can all vote for Bristol together?
Another day when I wish Ann Coulter had a 30-something gay brother
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=40058
I love Ann Coulter.
She has the guts to say what everyone is afraid to talk about: it is insane America refuses to profile and target Muslims for intense security screening when it is Muslims – and only Muslims – who are blowing up airplanes.
In WWI and its sequel, if you walked around looking like you were part of the Hitler youth, or were Charles Lindbergh or a Kennedy, then you probably received more scrutiny than people who were not German sympathizers…because German subversives and saboteurs were indeed living in this country as a fifth column that soughr to harm America.
Coulter uses the more modern example of the IRA in her piece…and notes that if Irish Catholics were blowing planes out of the air, anyone with red hair, Irish features, or even the most vaguely Irish name would be heavily scrutinized…and I bet not even allowed to fly.
Can’t offend the misunderstood CAIR Bears of Islam, though!
Even though they are the people actively trying to kill us.
It’s really insane, as Coulter wisely notes.
America needs to listen to her.
She’s so great, I wish she had a 30-something gay brother just like her who could move to Boystown and spend all day with me.
