Since I am explaining Marx to newbies this week, I found this post and commentary very helpful.
Perez Hilton has been fighting with Miss California over gay marriage. Mildly entertaining.
Michael Xenos writes about the YouTube conference.
I love blog posts about shoes and soap.
I keep hearing that applications for Teach for America are way up, because nobody wants to go to Wall Street anymore. Great. Hope they're not hanging out there for a year or two before going back to Wall Street.
More debate on the maternal health benefits of breast-feeding.
Apt. 11d 
Missing from the maternal benefits of breast-feeding article: clears out all your fat-soluble toxins. PCBs, DDT, all that stuff – gets rid of it. They dissolve in the fat in the milk, and out they go!
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Many TfAers leave after a year or two. It’s part of what TfA is designed to do. Let people experience the horrors of public school and then make a ton of money in a different field so they will donate!
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A lot of TfAers, though, have gone into leadership positions in education and education research and policy. I don’t think there’s a good way of discerning the numbers, but anecdotally I’m struck by how many TfA alum I come across in teacher education, in ed schools.
Good to see Ann Coulter’s back in the ads, Laura.
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Another article on benefits of breastfeeding. Note how Block calls Rosin irresponsible and ignorant (my words, not hers) for dissing the scientific literature.
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