Here, take 3.5 minutes out of your very busy schedule and minimally educate yourself:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education

Pay special attention to:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education#Functions

You might also be interested in:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education#Establishment

if you're laboring under the illusion that federal involvement in education dates from 1979 (as opposed to 1867).

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education#Opposition

is interesting if you'd like to understand what a punching bag ED is. Understanding why would requiring understanding the dog-whistle of conservative US politics.

Are we planning to produce extremely high speed objects in the future? Think anyone else might be able to produce extremely high speed objects? Think they can aim an extremely high speed object at a distant planet?

If it were lower, that that would be a huge take break for small businesses. If the loopholes were gone, that would be a huge tax increase for large businesses. And since large businesses make the rules, what do you expect to happen?

Maybe he thinks it's about a fictional character in a fictional universe? He's a theater professor. He likes the stories. He hung up a TV and/or movie poster. Any movie poster for any movie involving, e.g., guns, is going to be "threatening" by the criteria used in this case.

Get someone to dun them for what they owe you!

How exactly are they going to do "Internet Voting" in a non-bogus way?

Do you have a reference where "cutting corners" produced the bad mirror on Hubble? Because I understood it was stupidity.

If I thought I'd appear in any of that data, I'd already have disappeared.

Contagion is by Soderburgh, so there's some chance it could be good to very good. There's also a reasonable chance that it will be completely unintelligible crap. Guess I'll wait for the reviews :)

This Tyler Clementi, in case people forgot. I don't think this legislation is directed at "principals" at all.

That's what I've seen in Central Virginia, as usage dropped. Which makes solar (or whatever) 10-20% more competitive. Of course, these are requests by the utility to raise rates, since the utilities here remain regulated.

This effect is not limited to electricity, either. Same thing happened with our water utility -- all that effort to get people to conserve water really paid off! If you reduced your usage, your bill stayed about the same. If you didn't reduce, then you got to pay more.

The secretaries are analogous to the administrative staff of the university. The partners are analogous to the professors. In both cases the point of the institution has been lost.

I think it should be taught in school, but as politics not religion. AFAIK, Creationism is not anyone's religious belief, it's a mishmash of otherwise unrelated data attempting to undermine science, create a stir, and motivate voters. Kind of like global warming deniers, which also ought to be studied as politics and/or economics.

Reminds me of the movie "Heathers" -- "Whether to kill yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make. "

Which one was Timothy James McVeigh? How about this rule of thumb:

"Terrorists are the people in a weak position, violently opposing those in a strong position"

That covers collectivists, Muslims, and Tim.