It may already be too late for America

All of the moves toward educational reform over the past couple of decades have only made the situation worse with a total focus on standardized testing.  With teacher's careers dependent on test results, kids are no longer being taught to think for themselves, just to pass the test. 

Without a thoughtful populace we are doomed?

Age of Ignorance by Charles Simic

Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. It’s no use pretending otherwise and telling us, as Thomas Friedman did in the Times a few days ago, that educated people are the nation’s most valuable resources. Sure, they are, but do we still want them? It doesn’t look to me as if we do. The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit.

You can support the National MS Society by buying a raffle ticket for a chance to win this one of a kind Ford Mustang 50 Years Convertible

+Ford Motor Company is building only one 2015 Mustang GT 50 Years convertible.  Like the 50 Year Limited Edition this one is in Wimbledon white with a cashmere and black leather interior and special chrome accents and 19-inch wheels. Tickets are $20 for this one-off car with the drawing in August at the Woodward Dream Cruise. http://www.ford4ms.com?

Fortunately, +Chrysler Group LLC only does these massive product plan meetings every 5 years

As usual, Otto Blopnick provides the best summary of the action?

Fiat Chrysler Fiat reveals five-year plan

  Chrysler Fiat Fiat Chrysler Automotive held a massive press conference announcing their product plans for the next five years. CHRYSLER The Chrysler brand will be moved even further upmarket…

When she's agitated she flares out her feathers

This #chicken   has been getting a bit broody the last couple of days so I put her out in the sun for a while.  Clearly she was not thrilled about being messed with?

The crew from Monty Python couldn't have done this better?

Wagah – Attari Border Closing ceremony by India & Pakistan

Wagah (Punjabi: ????, Hindi: ????, Urdu: ?????) is the only road border crossin

Favoring this combination of deep impact blue with 18-inch five spokes, EcoBoost and 6-speed manual for my next ride

2015 +Ford Motor Company  #mustang  ?

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When the populace lacks an understanding of the fundamentals of math and science it makes it easy to pull off shit like this

When people don't know how to read a basic graph, it makes it very to manipulate what they "think".  Look closely at the graph to see what +Fox News has done in their never ending battle to say only negative things about the current administration.?

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Look at what they did to the y axis….

This sounds like a good first step, but we need to ban all of prophylactic use of antibiotics in livestock

Industrial farms use so many antibiotics in livestock that we are rapidly approaching the day when they will become completely ineffective.?

The Matrix for Chicken May Be the Future of Meat

From the outside, the long shed off a side road in the Netherlands gives no hint of what it holds. It’s 30 feet wide and as long as an Olympic swimming pool; its metal walls are pierced with tall garage-style doors, and silos are attached to one side. Peter Vingerling,…

Normally I hate to share lists that span multi pages, but aside from getting sued I've encountered every one of these

While I've never been personally sued, an article I wrote some years ago about the origins of +Tesla Motors was referenced in the discovery of a lawsuit between the company and co-founder Martin Eberhard.?

23 Problems Only Journalists Will Understand

An article we can all relate to.

It's been a great 8 year run for Alan Mulally

After guiding +Ford Motor Company through one of the most difficult periods in the history of the auto industry, Alan Mulally is retiring and passing the baton to Mark Fields who will take over as CEO on July 1?