Saturday, June 06, 2009
Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback
The top five stories worth reading from the week in worth-reading stories
Breaking crypto news!
Students aren't customers, education is not a commodity.
If laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have settled for part-time work are included, the unemployment rate would have been 16.4 percent in May, the highest on records dating to 1994. Our economy is going to keep tanking until we stop shoveling billions to rich people. Meanwhile, the dollar has fallen off a cliff.
In Science! news, a new hominid species, bearing modern facial features, has been discovered and could be over 12 million years old. A team of Chinese scientists have confirmed the existence of millions year old mountains below the antarctic ice, and finally, a new planet has been discovered that's as big as the star it orbits.
Finally, in environmental news, Chevron is facing a 27 billion dollar case that it poisoned thousands of acres of the Amazon.
Breaking crypto news!
Students aren't customers, education is not a commodity.
If laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have settled for part-time work are included, the unemployment rate would have been 16.4 percent in May, the highest on records dating to 1994. Our economy is going to keep tanking until we stop shoveling billions to rich people. Meanwhile, the dollar has fallen off a cliff.
In Science! news, a new hominid species, bearing modern facial features, has been discovered and could be over 12 million years old. A team of Chinese scientists have confirmed the existence of millions year old mountains below the antarctic ice, and finally, a new planet has been discovered that's as big as the star it orbits.
Finally, in environmental news, Chevron is facing a 27 billion dollar case that it poisoned thousands of acres of the Amazon.
# posted by Patrick : 6:46 AM
