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  • Swedish Lunch Lady Ordered to Stop Making 'Too Good' Food, 'Unfair' to Kids at Other Schools

    10/10/2012 6:02:51 AM PDT · by chessplayer · 21 replies
    Noel Sheppard's picture Americans have a first lady dictating what students can eat in school. Sweden's apparently worse. According to Swedish website The Local, a lunch lady in Falun has been ordered to stop cooking food for elementary school students that is "too good." Annika Eriksson makes lunches consisting of newly baked bread and an assortment of 15 vegetables for her students at the school. But the local municipality has order her to "bring it down a notch since other schools do not receive the same calibre of food." You see, that's "unfair." Her menu also doesn't comply with a...
  • Harrison Bergeron

    07/17/2011 1:54:10 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 20 replies · 1+ views
    National Review ^ | November 16, 1965 | Kurt Vonnegut
    The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law, they were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else; nobody was better looking than anybody else; nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
  • Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Time For A Reminder)

    08/18/2010 2:51:31 PM PDT · by devane617 · 16 replies
    tnellen.com ^ | 1961 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    Link to story: Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.
  • 2081: Everyone Will Finally Be Equal

    06/28/2009 3:14:11 PM PDT · by Rodebrecht · 38 replies · 2,030+ views
    Finallyequal.com ^ | 6/28/09 | N/A
    This movie looks really good.
  • Next Up for Nationalization: the Internet

    11/15/2008 11:34:24 PM PST · by dr_who · 43 replies · 1,519+ views
    National Review ^ | November 13, 2008 | Phil Kerpen
    Network neutrality means less technological innovation — and less freedom, too. By Phil Kerpen Following the nationalization of investment banks, Fannie and Freddie, consumer banks, and private insurance companies, taxpayers are likely asking: What’s left for the federal government to nationalize? How about the Internet? Network neutrality, or net neutrality, is the beneficent-sounding name for sweeping new government regulatory power that would prohibit Internet service providers from innovating in their own networks. This could lead to much less broadband investment by private companies, and could potentially force government subsidization, control, and outright nationalization of the Internet. The implications of this...