Sunday, October 28, 2007
A Redneck Tank Top
Thanks for this to my friend Marissa, who once forwarded the legendary series of photos that included the dude (at the Martinsville, Va., NASCAR track) with Dale Earnhart's #3 shaved into his back hair.
All Children Left Behind
Hidden in The Washington Post's excellent story today about the failures of the No Child Left Behind Act was the following passage about Como Elementary School in Mississippi:
More than a third of Como's 32 teachers are new this year, and five of those have been hired with an "emergency license" because they lack full teacher training. At least three of the new teachers had been dismissed or released from other schools. One resigned after just a few weeks when he was found hiding from the third-graders in his class who were throwing papers at him.Reactions:
- How can you say you have national standards when a state like Mississippi meets expectations so much lower than everyone else?
- Those Como kids roll HARD ("Another worksheet? I got something for you, teacher man.")
- 33% makes the 10% we lost this year (after a VERY rough year in 06-07) look puny.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Synchronicity
On TBS, the Cleveland Indians are dismantling the N.Y. Yankees in the A.L. playoffs.
Meanwhile, over on AMC, half-blood Indian fighter Daniel Day-Lewis is performing a hatchet job of his own against the Brits in "The Last of the Mohicans."
Coincidence?
Running Up a Tab at 'The Office'
Ever fantasized about running over your boss with a car? Perhaps a coworker? Or one of your employees?
If you do it on the job, it could cost the company as much as $450,000 from the ensuing lawsuit, depending on actual medical expenses, according to Julie Elgar, a labor and employment attorney at the law firm of Ford & Harrison in Atlanta who's taken it on herself to critique the NBC TV show "The Office" from her perspective as a lawyer representing management in companies that have been sued by their employees and former employees. Her blog title: "That's What She Said," after a really lame job told by office chief Michael Scott, above.
In a recent posting, she referenced the season premier, in which Scott, the leader of a branch office of fictional paper distributor Dunder Mifflin, ran over one of his subordinates, Meredith, in the parking lot, then used the woman's exposure to a bat (also on company property, but that's another story) to exculpate himself.
Elgar writes:
Add to that Michael’s admission to his boss that the accident was caused by his “negligence,” and Meredith has the beginnings of a nice little lawsuit. Maybe this would be the time for Dunder Mifflin’s attorneys to remind Michael of my favorite saying: “If you can’t be good, then, for the love of God, just be quiet.”
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Still Going Strong...
Unlike the Bengals, who are 1-3 after getting their pee-pees caught in their zipper last night against the Patriots, the bulletin board still stands in immaculate condition.
Pity, perhaps?
