- The So-Called Austin Mayor doesn’t talk as much as I do, but when he does he makes it count. Here he impeaches the supposed integrity of retiring suburban rep Henry Hyde, without even getting into that gentleman’s walloping double standard on the subject of presidential impeachment.
- Jessa Crispin at Bookslut will never have to read the New Yorker again, thanks to haiku! Who would’ve thunk it?
- Alexander Russo’s District 299 Chicago Public Schools Blog is fast becoming to CPS what Rich Miller’s Capitol Fax Blog and Illinoize are to politics–sources of both information and intelligent discussion from many viewpoints. Victor at Chicago Teachers Speak Out rescues the following from a number of insightful comments responding to CPS’s Peter Cunningham, who was invited to make a statement on college-graduation data. The anonymous commenter asks, “Why free a group of schools from bureaucratic oversight? If that oversight is harmful, free all schools. If it is supportive, don’t ‘free’ any. If it is harmful, change it. It’s like Cunningham is saying, ‘we not imposing our stupid rules and regs on everyone, just the bad schools.'”
- Steve Rhodes at Beachwood Reporter explains in painstaking detail why the Sun-Times’s coverage of Daley’s Olympic brainstorm would get an F in any reputable J-school.