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School owned devices=school surveillance devices
You’d think the folks would have learned from what happened in Pennsylvania back in the day. You might recall that case where a school district gave all of the students Macbooks and then took over 56,000 pictures of the students in their bedrooms. In Tennessee a student made a joke on her school surveillance device… Continue reading
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A small self-brag..
I try not to post anything personal, but am making an exception this evening. Our office had its annual retreat this week. As part of it, we did a SWOT analysis. When brainstorming strengths, one of my co-workers said ‘Well, there’s a lot we’ve gotten done that we weren’t able to before Midwest Chick started.’… Continue reading
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Nope, no one is entitled to brownies, a popsicle, or a Dr. Pepper
The magic of Tik Tok is bringing the stupid to the forefront. There’s some woman with a perfect manicure talking about how her daughter is ‘entitled’ to a popsicle and if you don’t agree you’re all kinds of names. This shows how verbiage morphing manifests in unrealistic expectations. EBT is government assistance. It is not… Continue reading
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Lava Ridge Wind Project–Cancelled
The Autopen Administration pushed this through in December of 2024. On August 6, the Department of the Interior killed the project (before it could start killing birds). The agency cited legal deficiencies in the project’s authorization and pointed to widespread opposition from Idaho residents, many of whom raised concerns about the project’s proximity to a… Continue reading
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Taxpayer dollars drying up for mRNA research
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has just cancelled contracts worth $500 million for mRNA research. The reasons behind these cancellations were that most of the shots were for flu or COVID, but the pandemic demonstrated that “mRNA vaccines don’t perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract.” It’s was long established before the covid… Continue reading
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Federal Merit Hiring–Reinstated
Thanks to Jimmy Carter’s administration and the inertia that is the federal government, a five year stay on using tests to verify applicant’s skillsets has been in place for the last forty years. But that’s going to end. In 1981, Angel Luevano sued the federal government over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, a test… Continue reading
(A.K.A. Non-Original Rants)
–Co-opting good stuff from all over the ‘Net and maybe some original thoughts—ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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