Flickr: Barack Obama visits Waterfront Park - Wow, that’s a whole lot of people
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Fist Bumping Rules: 5. No fist bumping between the hours of 7am and 10am. And if you’re watching sports at this time, it’s probably soccer or NASCAR, and then you should really not be fist bumping. High fives will suffice for both.
Culture Bully: Why Jason Lewis is Wrong About Hip Hop Arts Programs in Schools: Lewis claimed that Lee’s work with sixth graders at Lake Junior High, which included helping them write collaborative poems about their homerooms and performing at a single school assembly, somehow represented a sinister threat to the supremacy of Western thought and culture, and that teachers wanted to replace all math and science classes with hip hop tutorials.
This American Life Ep 355: The Giant Pool of Money: A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR news.
Listened to this episode of This American Life yesterday and highly recommend it if you’d like a little more detail on the housing/credit crisis. It seems like even though everyone has been talking about it, few have been able to explain it in a simple way. Leave it to Ira Glass and crew to break it down. Full download available here
Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia: If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.
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