Today I talk to a good friend–Chad Oliver–and good teacher who lost his job last month due to teacher layoffs. We talk about the changes facing education, what role tax cuts play in government layoffs, and just how hard it is to be a teacher with all these new attacks taking place. 1. Hi Chad,…
GOP’s Attack On Teachers Will Discourage People From Becoming Teachers
Repeatedly, we’ve been told that “Obamacare” will discourage sharp, motivated professionals from becoming doctors. That even though it makes no mention of capping the salary a doctor can make, young people will be so dismayed at any type of regulation to the health insurance market they won’t want to go to school to become one…
Petty Issues: Republican Debate Edition
After watching the Republican debate, a few thoughts… 5. This is the party of has beens, only two of the seven candidates on stage are currently in government, and it’s laughing stock candidates Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann 4. John Huntsman should save his money and not run. When Republicans say they want more variety…
Why McJobs Aren’t Worth Teacher Layoffs
If I’ve said it once in this feature, I’ve said it a hundred times: low paying jobs with no benefits created at McDonald’s and Wal-Mart aren’t worth layoffs for decent paying government jobs with respectable benefits. In a previous WCE titled “Why the Bush Tax Cuts Actually COST Jobs” I debunked the myth that tax…
Red State vs. Blue State: Brody vs. Some Asshole on the Internet Part 2
Part 2 of our overgrown pissing contest picks up where we left off last week, with my foe calling me a Socialist. Brody: I’ve been doing this site for four months and no one has called me a socialist before now. ReaganFan: Well, there’s always time for your readers to become educated lol. Brody: Yeah,…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Mostly Good (Super 8)
Every summer brings at least one movie that’s not a sequel, prequel, three-quel, or based on a videogame/superhero comic/youtube video. And it’s that one film that has an ounce of mystery that’s usually the best (like Inception last year or Tropic Thunder a couple years back). Not that I have anything against excellent sequels like…
The Pretty Good (X-Men: First Class)
Let’s start this review off by saying X-Men: First Class is completely unnecessary…but it’s also pretty good. What Works: Well first off, the hotness of the cast is completely unexpected as the other X-Men movies usually only had Halle Berry or Dania Ramirez in small roles. January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, and a scorching Zoe Kravitz…
& The Ugly (The Hangover II)
[Spoilers…but if you’ve seen the first film, this one is already spoiled] You know how every summer is filled with superheroes (Thor, Captain America, The Green Lantern, and X-Men: First Class) and unnecessary sequels (Pirates 4, Trashformers 3, Cars 2, and…well, X-Men: First Class)? Well Hangover II is absolutely unnecessary, more than unnecessary, it’s a…
TV Review: Game of Thrones
After intense, almost deafening speculation, HBO’s Game of Thrones finally arrived in April and will see the end of its first, ten-episode season this Sunday. I can safely say the show is neither a massive disappointment nor wildly successful, instead falling somewhere in the middle. The BEGINNING of the show felt more like the end…
Sunday’s Sermons: With Jack Kevorkian Dead Where Do We Stand On Euthanasia?
In recent years it’s hard to imagine a person who has so personified a single issue as Dr. Kevorkian embodied the issue of Euthanasia or assisted suicide. He was an icon for the hard-to-talk about issue of patients that were terminally ill, suffering, and ready to die. The news media called him Dr. Death, the…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: The Real Civil War, Democrat or Republican Women in Bed?
Some debates are so classic, solving them is almost beside the point. Coke vs. Pepsi, McDonald’s vs. Burger King, The Beattles vs. The Rolling Stones (or for Bubba, Johnny Cash vs. Merle Haggard), the question of “which is better?” has been going on for so long, who even wants an answer? Well, in this world…
Interviews with the Invisible: One of The Beer Party Leaders
I’m a little star struck today, as I interview something of a rockstar in the liberal movement. Today’s interview is Todd Farally, one of the leaders of The Beer Party, the razor sharp opposition to the loathsome Tea Party. If you haven’t checked out their facebook page, twitter feed, and official site, do yourself a…
We Can’t Keep Losing Our Top Anti-Corporate Voices to Sex Scandals
Below this feature Now What? did an excellent job of pointing out how strange this whole Weinergate saga is, but I’m a little interested in the uniqueness of it and a lot more interested in the “Who cares about it all?” aspect of it. Most importantly, we’re a little worried this is going to cause…