We are all quite familiar with Dubya’s memorable moments in office as he flipped us off on camera — but there is a new firestorm afoot under the former president’s thumb — and it all has to do with how he used his new best friend Bill Clinton as a human Handi Wipe.
You can buy the new “Cuffed” magazine for a dollar to ogle the faces of the recently arrested. There are some who believe “Cuffed” is an inappropriate invasion of privacy while others argue the mug shots are part of the public record and any right to privacy was lost upon arrest.
Continue reading → Cuffed for Money: Privacy and the Public Record
Are we at the end of our tether with public schooling as private schools, religious schools and school vouchers try to replace our traditional education system?
This article represents a quick presentation of what is possible with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software. We were pleased to provide some GIS content for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill publishing for three textbooks in 2008: World Geography and Cultures, Glencoe World History and The American Vision — all with a combined expected worldwide sales of 750,000 copies.
(UPDATE: UrbanSemiotic.com is now hosted on Movable Type 4.1. We are keeping this article in publication to keep the record preserved.)
I love WordPress.com and I moved my standalone blog from being self-hosted to the .COM version because I didn’t want to deal with any of the backend technical stuff.
That doesn’t mean problems and bugs aren’t an issue, though, and there is a current bug that I call a WordPress.com SuperBug — a regular “bug” is bothersome, a “SuperBug” modifies published content — and here’s why.
There is a known problem on WordPress.com where Published posts can mysteriously become Private posts.
Continue reading → Making Published Posts Private: The WordPress Dot Com SuperBug
You are the head of Homeland Security.
The following urgent intelligence report has been sent to your desk.
The president has deferred to your judgment:
Your decision will prove the resolution of this threat to national security.
Continue reading → Urban Bioterrorism Attack: A Toxic Agent Airliner
As a good Son of Nebraska, I was horrified to learn of the new law passed last Thursday by the Nebraska Unicameral to racially divide — or let’s call it “State Sponsored Vivisection by Race” — the Omaha Public Schools into three distinct Racial districts: White, Black and Hispanic. The 45,000 student Omaha school system is 46% White, 31% Black, 20% Hispanic and 3% Asian or American Indian.
Continue reading → Unicameral Vivisection of Omaha Public Schooling
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