Snowden Strikes Again - another breaking story
according to The Switch blog at The Washington Post, in a story just emailed as breaking news, NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking. The story is co-authored by Barton Gellman, who is on contract with the Post and has previously written stories using the material he was given by Snowden. The opening two grafs: The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency's internal presentatio
An interesting African perspective on Mandela
can be found in today's Washington Post in an op ed titled The roots of Mandela’s service. The author, Temba Maqubela is headmaster at Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. He fought against apartheid, escaped persecution, and, in 1986, came to the United States as a political refugee. More importantly, his grandfather actually taught Mandela in University, and his grandmother was one of the fe
Thoughts on teaching on a snow day
Yesterday our schools were on a two-hour delay, which is difficult enough when you are on an alternating day schedule with 90 minute periods and you have the same prep on both A day and B day. But at least I had almost an hour. Being closed today is the equivalent of the one section of AP government that I have on B day losing 2 days of instruction. I have a required assessment that must be giv
12-9-13 Daily Kos: Invisible Child
Daily Kos: Invisible Child: Invisible ChildShe wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet. Two other children share a mattress by the rotting wall where the mice live, opposite the baby, whose crib is warmed