Things to Know - 29 September

1.  Back now to the new name - Liberty Park - near Wall Stree.  Two accounts; one event reporting, and the other more impassioned:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1020852/-Dr-Cornel-West,-OccupyWallStreet-AMAZING-speech,-MLK-Jr-would-smile-from-the-grave!-OUR-VOICE!

http://www.truth-out.org/print/6923

2.  This NY Times Editorial suggests that Republicant leaders are wrong in their direction to affect economic policy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/opinion/killing-the-recovery.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

3.  Mandatory minimum sentences are clogging up the prison system.  Letting judges decide the sentencing may alleviate problems:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/opinion/an-invitation-to-prosecutorial-overreach.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

4.  As the lead-in, this column is entitled "Why the Conservatives Hate Warren Buffett".  E.J. Dionne tells us why:http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dionne-why-conservatives-hate-warren-buffett/2011/09/28/gIQAxmne5K_print.html

5.  I am tossing this article in for your perusal and feedback.  I am currently "borrowing" my wife's Kindle to read many textbooks for a class that I am auditing.   I am thinking that maybe I will get my own Kindle, and I see that there is this new FIRE on the market.  I don't need a smart phone, or iPad, but I like the idea of a Kindle, but not sure of the other stuff along the way.  Does any one have any comments that I should consider?:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-tablet-20110929,0,3853012,print.story

6.  Is there a place and limit on which education should rely on on-line instruction?   Here's the opinion of a professor of Electrical Engineering.  I would like to see what a professor of Portuguese and Spanish Literature would have to say:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-villasenor-online-university-20110928,0,3809015,print.story

--
Juan Matute

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
       -- Buddha

"I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends."
       -- Moby

"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression."
       -- Amos Bronson Alcott

"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
       -- Robertson Davies

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
       -- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.