Covering up the ugly truth

As Bush continues to cover up the ugly truth about his “war on terror” (aka his “crusade for oil”) his misdirections and outright lies are getting more and more blatant. For instance, does anyone believe that he underestimated the war casualty count by a factor of 20?
Talk about a numbers game! On October 11 the [...]

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The Decline of Education in the Corporate Empire

I recently read The Decline Of Education In California by Sarah Knopp, a chapter in California Under Corporate Rule (Peter Miguel Camejo). As a treatise on the state of our education system it’s thought provoking but horribly dismaying. Education has been on a decline throughout the United States since the 1970’s and it’s not stopping. [...]

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Quality as a way of life

I’m getting tired of discovering projects that focus on “quality assurance” as if its entire breadth where encompassed in simple regression testing conducted after a product is supposedly ready for release.
Managing software quality is not simply creating a test program during a late-phase testing period. In fact, addressing quality assurance in this way is too [...]

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Idiot

Recently, this quote caught my attention. Attributed to the Editor of Vanity Fair magazine (Graydon Carter) on Ring Of Fire:
“You know how President Bush sounds like whenever he explains something that he understands, whenever he feels he has to give an explanation? He always sounds like he’s talking to idiots.
I think the reason he sounds [...]

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