Tuesday Linky-poo
* This piece on a self-selected survey on what kids are reading kind of irritated me a bit. Granted, the article does note that many of the books that are listed are due to assignment, but this self-congratulatory praise of the list by the same educators who don’t want to deviate from what they know and instead widely push the same books that only resonate with a subset of kids is discouraging to me. Furthermore, they even cite the decline in the amount of books read per year, and fail to note any possible correlations between the often-dated, unrelatable, and typically preachy fare that they assign as opposed to some of the more interesting writing available, many of which share similar values and information while actually relating, either in character or style, to the kids who are reading them. The disconnect is absolutely incredible to me. There’s a longer rant about books and assignments and “classics” and whatnot that isn’t really good for right now.
* Jonah Goldberg on the Tuskegee experiments, separating the myths from the reality. I learned something here.
* I’m pretty sick of our marijuana laws. This has to be a new low. It was prescribed, you morons!
* New Zealand’s laws are so insane that it’s illegal to buy Grand Theft Auto IV for your child. As bad as it gets here…
* Heh.
* CNN’s decided that the news isn’t really important anymore. In the tank, indeed.
Prediction for today? Clinton by more than 5 in Indiana, Obama by no more than 7 in North Carolina. I wouldn’t be shocked to see Clinton pull within 5 in North Carolina, but there are a lot of African American voters in that primary, and I assume they’ll continue to break in favor of Obama the way they have.