Educationally, the Three S's: Science, Sports...and Spam
Officially, most schools don't begin the fall term for another few weeks or so, but it doesn't feel that way on BlogPulse. The gradual adoption of Bible-reading courses in public schools (today's No. 2 top news story) and President Bush's nod to intelligent design theories in science curricula (No. 17) are drawing all sorts of blog reaction. In Bush's home state, the critical Pink Dome can't help but ask, "They can read in Texas?", while Pandagon questions the "educational" motives of the group promoting Bible study. Bush is painted as anything but intelligent by Trial Shoe blog, while Perfectly Crumulent says the Prez is primarily pandering to far-right constitutents.
All those calisthentics...
And to think my junior class thought it novel when "phys ed" teachers Coach McTaggart (boys) and Sister Joan (girls) traded roles for a week: Sister taught the guys to square dance (successfully), while Coach tried (in vain) to inspire the girls to fall in love with golf. Today, gym class goes virtual, (today's No. 6 news link). "Finally, a gym class we'd be good at," says Gawker, while B2Day calls it "another dumb idea" in education.
Spam, sausage and spam
Today's top links show what happens when BlogPulse experiences a slip-up in its spam filtering: 36 of the top 40 links are spam blogs. Fortunately, our list of top 40 weblog posts and top 40 news articles for the day are clean.
More Rove-ing questions
Today's burstiest person, Susan Ralston, is apparently the latest from Karl Rove's office to testify before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury into the investigation of who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name to the press. Think Progress and War and Piece speculate on the meaning...and the connections.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at August 3, 2005 10:25 AM
