Last week a New York Times/CBS poll found that Tea Party backers were, among other things, more educated on average than the general public. Some may assert, however, that this may not be the same demographic pool showing up at the group’s rallies, if you take to heart the photos in a Flickr pool called [...]

We first found this on The Awl. It’s a photo of what’s described on the blog I ought to be working as a pile of manure left in the entrance of a Chase Manhattan bank ATM at 10th street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan, with this explanation: This happened across the street from my apartment. [...]

On Thursday, thousands of California students protested the severe budget cuts to education at all levels that have been enacted due to the state’s fiscal crisis. From the San Francisco Chronicle: The historic day of demonstrations in the Bay Area and beyond was largely peaceful, with students and others carrying signs like “Chop from the [...]

Ted McCagg is a former advertising creative director that posts daily drawings on the Web. This one cracked me up.

More dramatic video on YouTube from the student protests at the University of California regents meeting at UCLA. Students are angry that in response to a severe state budget crisis, the regents have voted to raise fees at the public university system 32%, which pushes tuition to more than $10,000. The first video shows students [...]

It’s one thing to read the Twitter feed from yesterday’s nasty student protest at the University of California Regents meeting at UCLA, it’s another to see the video. This was posted by a group called the National Inflation Association. Student groups are angry at an expected 32% hike in UC tuition in response to the [...]

This is pretty dramatic. The University of California Office of the Student Regent is Twittering the UC Regents meeting in which the University system’s overseers are expected to vote for a tuition hike. As noted in our last post, students have called for a three-day strike to protest the increase. Last Tweet, 26 minutes ago: [...]

California is suffering a severe budget crisis, and the state university system is taking its lumps. The University of California Regents are meeting over the next three days to vote on student fee hikes to cover budget shortfalls. From today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Meeting in Los Angeles, the regents are expected to approve a 32 [...]

Just got a strange phone call: “Attention Americans – are you aware of the recent tea party events that are occurring across the nation, as a result of recent governmental actions? Please take notice today!” I thought it was a friend of mine and started to play along, but the caller   hung up. Turns [...]