by Rob Cottingham | May 26, 2005 | Politics
So it turns out that “No Child Left Behind” isn’t just an empty Republican promise on education… it’s also a recruiting strategy for the U.S. military: This federal law [the “No Child Left Behind Act”] that is supposed to help... by Rob Cottingham | May 26, 2005 | Politics
If there’s a word you rarely associate with the political left, it might just be “glee”. (It might also be “highly-paid”. But let’s run with “glee”.) Well, rarely-associate no longer. Scott Piatkowski revels in... by Rob Cottingham | May 25, 2005 | Politics
There’s a white flag if I ever saw one. From cbc.ca, the American Family Association (sic) is throwing in the towel in its fight with Disney: “We feel after nine years of boycotting Disney we have made our point,” the head of the American Family... by Rob Cottingham | May 24, 2005 | Blogging, Communicating, Media Mix, Politics, Technology
Andrew Coyne has shut down the comments section of his blog: I don’t like to be in the censorship business, or picking and choosing which comments to allow and which to reject, and I don’t have the time to monitor hundreds of comments every day. I... by Rob Cottingham | May 21, 2005 | Politics, Technology
If the thought of chairing a meeting fills you with dread… if your hands turn clammy if they so much as brush against a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order… if, deep down, you genuinely believe that you can’t wield a gavel without the serious... by Rob Cottingham | May 20, 2005 | Politics
The BC election had three big stories going on, and each one involves a three-letter acronym. The mainstream media only belatedly realized two were stories, and have yet to twig to the third. Acronym One: STV It was only really during the last week of the campaign...