Larry’s Log

If a doctor tells you he can relieve all of these problems:

Alzheimer’s
Anxiety and nervousness
Arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism
Attention Deficit Disorder, dyslexia, hyperactivity and other learning disabilities
Autism
Cerebral palsy
Concussion and other head injuries
Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder
Down’s Syndrome
Dystonia
Ear infection and deafness
Glaucoma, double vision and other vision problems
Headaches, head pressure, migraines
Insomnia
Low energy, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
Muscle spasms, neck and shoulder pain
Organ functioning
Orthodontic stress […]

Doc Searls has some interesting things to say about education and testing. The fact of the matter is that tests don’t reveal what a student has learned and taking a test does nothing to teach the subject matter. Unfortunately, testing is the only way educators have found to measure their effectiveness as teachers and judge […]

Thom Hartman believes that we are seeing the waning of right wing talk radio and the dawn of progressive or liberal talk radio. I hope he’s right but while a pompous right wing talker is entertaining a pompous right wing talker just leaves me flat. I have yet to hear a left wing talker who […]

Earlier today when I read about Microsoft entering into a licensing agreement with SCO Unix I didn’t know what to make of it. While their claim was that they were doing so in order to be able to work on interoperation with Unix systems without the fear of violationg SCO’s IP that didn’t quite wash […]