[MuttTheHoople]

Obama hates common sense.

[ransomnote]

It so unfair that Obama’s administration has behaved in such a freakish manner that now, when I read satire, I tend to think it’s real. I mean, Obama IS satire so freakish satire articles seem like that came from ‘The One’ himself. Sometimes.......

[hole_n_one]

........it would give everyone a fair chance of winning a college degree,”

Hysterical!

[cycjec]

One of my objection to Kindles and the like is that the schools
will charge 80% , if not 100% of textbook prices for
temporary e-books, i.e. ones that expire, (”vanish”) after
the end of the year.
I have many others. Odd as it may seem to many, I think
the disability people might have a legitimate complaint
here.
Any required material should be mandated to be in hardcopy
form in the school library (reserve status will usually
suffice).
There’s quite a few situations where electronic books can’t
be used, and that deprives the student of that time.
Access to e.g. library catalogs is another problem. Although
the majority of catalogs (my surmise) exist in a legacy
form allowing usable access, the libraries keep changing
the interface, often making text access impossible, one
example being the NYPL catalog currently.

[shibumi]

Your link in the post wasn’t clickable. This one is:

http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/fed-may-introduce-negative-interest-rates/

[jonrick46]

This has got to be a joke!

[FlyingEagle]

One cannot whack a spider with a Kindle, whereas a Statistics textbook despatches a spider or even a scorpion tidily.

[philman_36]

Until all can take the same step into the future, no one must be allowed to inch ahead.
Damn those inchworms. They're worse than bookworms.

[Smokin' Joe]

ROTFMAO! You got me this time! I was four paragraphs in before I even thought to check! Th line between satire and reality has become razor thin, and you manage to dance on it! Great one!

[Candor7]

Welcome to Zimbabwe USA !

[2ndDivisionVet]

Out “satire” this:

Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2579464/posts

[Arthur McGowan]

This happened a few months ago!!!!!

[Quiller]

The saddest part of this all is that with the federal government, and especially with 0, the ‘truth’ has become so twisted, that satire such as this is believable.

[Vaduz]

Kindles—as substitutes for standard textbooks. Just great now when you ask for a book they ask paper or electric.

[Tainan]

A surprisingly fertile topic.


Its flying well below the usual radar.

[grania]

Progress that isn’t uniform across all demographics is discriminatory. Until all can take the same step into the future, no one must be allowed to inch ahead.”

Mygosh, the person who said this with regard for textbooks on kindle is dumber than a rock. Kindles are a choice that not everyone makes for regular reading and how is a choice discrimination? Besides that, for some disabilities, carrying around those heavy textbooks is what's impossible.

[BraveMan]

I’m reading this on my Kindle. I am so screwed . . .

[listenhillary]

For those that may never have read this. First published in October 1961.

HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

[silverleaf]

In other news, Perez now demands that every student using a personal computer be blindfolded, and that every student taking physical education do so from a wheelchair.

[DemonDeac]

Using Kindles instead of textbooks is a stupid idea. Half of them would be broken by the end of the first year because of mishandling and being crammed in backpacks, etc.