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Thursday, January 09, 2003
jesus would ride a bike
My dad works for General Motors. It's one of the last big manufacturers left in the Western New York area, and it employs thousands of people. I should have no cause to complain about the company, but yet I do. My family leases an SUV, a GMC Jimmy. And this drives me crazy. I can't exactly pinpoint why. I'm sure there's a billion other purchasing or environmental decisions I could pick on. And hey, I've been known to leave the water running for five minutes at a time. But the SUV thing. I dunno, there's just something creepy about it... the invisible hand of marketing has made all these Americans truly believe that they are driving vehicles that are safer in a crash and better in bad weather. But it ain't true. So I nicknamed our SUV at home the Rollover Death Machine. You know. For counter-marketing purposes. My parents didn't take too kindly to that. They just looked sort of quietly stunned/annoyed. Probably because I decided to tell them my new nickname while we were driving in the Jimmy. And, says Arianna Huffington, there is a creepy conspiracy behind the SUV trend. Ok, so actually it's just the standard conspiracy: the feds and big business.
10:33
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
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Education Week's in-depth special report on teaching in high-poverty, high-minority schools highlights how the public school system isn't set up to train and retain great teachers. I've talked a lot in the past few months to friends working in schools where they get no support from the administration, no time to collaborate as a faculty, and they feel really isolated in a classroom full of too many kids at all different levels of ability. It's no wonder that teachers who love to teach often head for the suburbs, or someplace where they've got a shot at succeeding.
10:15
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