Search all posts
-
Most Recent Posts
Sites of Interest
Tag Archives: 538 Significant Digits
Lest we forget how horrible the Trump admin is…
While we’re getting so excited about the Manafort plea, 538 Significant Digits reminds us about what’s going on on the ground: 12,800 children The number of detained migrant children in the U.S. is at the highest level ever recorded: 12,800 … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged 12800 children, 538 Significant Digits, migrant children
Comments Off on Lest we forget how horrible the Trump admin is…
Educating our children: not the way to do it
I’m so vehemently opposed to the deceit of “charter schools” (translation: pseudo private schools — some of them profit-making — which con parents and steal money from public school education), I read this, first on Twitter, and went nuts. So … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged 538 Significant Digits, charter schools, Jeff Bezos, public school education, Twitter
Comments Off on Educating our children: not the way to do it
Sad news/good news about our free local press
From 538 Significant Digits: 232 years Pittsburgh no longer has a daily print newspaper — it’s now the largest American city with that dubious distinction. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which has existed for 232 years, just cut its print edition from … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged 538 Significant Digits, Canadian paper, First Amendment, International Trade Commission, local newspapers, New York Daily News, paper tariffs, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tronc
Comments Off on Sad news/good news about our free local press