Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado About Nothing? Source: PENNumbra (University of Pennsylvania Law Review) The election of Barack Obama marks a significant milestone for race relations in our nation—on this much our debaters agree. The meaning of this milestone for th...

Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been c...

Here's a bit of irony.  School Boards are constituted to operate our public schools, to impart learning to our youth.  And yet, in some parts of the country, it appears that School Boards need to go back to school to learn how to read and interpret the English language for themselves.  The federa...

More fun for the kids in Texas - yesterday it was homelessness, today it’s fight clubs for the institutionalized. Not long ago it was physical and sexual abuse in Texas Youth Commission jails. It’s about time some one in this state took a hard look at protections for our kids. Legislatio...

Michigan Radio’s Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has been thinking about the recent decision by The State Officers Compensation Commission to cut legislative pay by ten percent. Hear Audio Story    There is something to be said for a spirit of shared sacrifice during hard times...

More earmarks than any other Republican. Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who is the darling of the Libertarian Right, has more earmarks in the pork-laden $410-billion spending bill than any other Republican. That’s not according to the MSM, or the liberal blogosphere. That’s what Fox New...

A lot of my time is focused on how teams collaborate during design and construction of new buildings and other assets, and it is easy to forget that collaboration should extend throughout the supply chain, including the manufacturers of many of the components that are used in our projects. On his PL...

Steve Schippert of Threatswatch, Matt of Blackfive, John of Op-For, and Ace (of Spades) and I have been chatting in email regarding the fallout of Secretary Shinseki's testimony before Congress that ignited the shite-storm that is spreading around.  Steve made a nice "wrap-it-all-up" ...

I think once Thursday dodgeball finishes up, I may do these thrice weekly. * AP: “Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.” When the AP, which couldn’t be bothered to worry much about seriously examining Obama during the campaign, is starting to look at Ob...

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have little patience for attempting to run churches by business principles. That’s been weighed in the scale and found wanting every time it’s been attempted. Last evening, as I was prepping for an interview I was to conduct with a supply chain exp...