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But in all seriousness, it's nice to see a local newspaper actually doing its job.
by davidkc on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 04:34:24 AM PDT
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and locally owned and operated, newspapers.
They live there too. So it's not just some abstract story to them - it's going to affect them. If the kids graduating are idiots, it means they won't be able to find people to work for them. It might even mean that THEIR kids will have to go to crappy schools.
Most local newspaper owners aren't Murdoch level rich - they probably are comfortable, and live well, but they don't have private jets and islands.
Which is why we NEED locally owned and operated media. Not multinational conglomerates.
by mmacdDE on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 06:08:46 AM PDT
they'd be the same as before, only with a bit of extra useless bullshit stuck in their memories.
Sort of the same way I'm stuck with the lyrics to "Louie Louie" and, believe it or not, I was taught that the earth "tilted" on it's axis causing winter and summer. (NYC in the 1960's)
Now, can we prevent schools from Prteaching "creationism"? We'd better, but not because the kids would turn into idiots, that's the wrong argument.
We have to stop the Fundies from their crusade of stealthy elections to school boards.
Unless we can do that, there's not going to be much of a difference between schools and churches.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. Thomas Jefferson 6/11/1807
by Patriot4peace on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 06:59:34 AM PDT
you the Earth wobbled around like a slowing top?!
by Indexer on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:59:09 AM PDT
We had a table top solar system with pulleys and gears that rotated around a large central yellow "sun" when you cranked the handle.
The "blue" orb would literally tilt its top half towards the sun representing late spring in the northern hemisphere, then at a point exactly opposite the winter solstice, it would start to tilt the other way until it got back to the original point in the orbit.
It was very intricate, with the earth making more revolutions than the outer planets, and even had Mercury in a fixed orbit without rotation.
By the time I was in High School learning physics and inertia, I asked how something that weighed 30 trillion tons could stop twice a year without flinging off all the passengers. It was one of those "stupid question" moments, and when it was explained to the class, a few of my classmates admitted they'd been taught the same thing I was.
It might be a regional thing - I was in the NYC public school system back then.
I wish someone would explain to me now why Republicans can't understand that Global Warming is a dire threat to life on earth.
by Patriot4peace on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 09:18:34 AM PDT
model maker!
by Indexer on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 02:26:23 PM PDT
by nu on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 01:40:57 PM PDT
25,000 years for one cycle, I'd guess not.
by Indexer on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 02:24:59 PM PDT
Ironically the two best news stations here are locally operated/owned.
a CBS and Fox affiliate are owned by a local company, and they have had, consistantly, the best local news for 30 years, in spite of the ABC & NBC stations being owned by ABC and NBC with all the muscle that might represent. The only news competition they have is a cable-run 24-hour local news channel, run by the local cable franchise.
We have no desire to offend you -- unless you are a twit!
by ScrewySquirrel on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:20:53 AM PDT
wide narrow
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