So I had juuuuuust about managed to get that Alicia Key’s hook out of my head when I started digging around this week’s blogs for highlights and clicked on ‘Print is Dead…Now What?’ Looks like the folks over at York College Comm Tech just gave you a way to earn $1,000 and get out of the house.   C’mon – print is dead and you could use the cash so make the ad already.

Meanwhile over at blogging politics Tamar wants to know whether state intervention is ever justified and goes on to say:

“I am unconvinced that the American, or any Western European states’ populations, are so benevolent and selfless that we can objectively evaluate the quality and necessity for intervention in areas we are completely unfamiliar with.

It is not necessary to apply a judgment to the leadership, population, and cultures that breed what we consider to be reprehensible behaviors. Humanitarianism is a vague concept; I just cannot logically separate it from any other moral crusade in history in which a state transported humanity to areas that it considered uncivilized…”

Oh snap.

That kicked off some debate in the comments that I’m going to leave alone,  but I am excited to see the Politics folks get set up at the Commons and I hope we see a lot more of these conversations!

On an only-slightly-less touchy topic, Anthony Picciano over at Tony’s Thoughts pulled out this interesting article from the New York Times on Diane Ravitch’s seeming about face on education reform in America.    She maintains her long-standing faith in the public school system as a pillar of social mobility (Go CUNY!) but seems to have gone tepid on standardized tests and charter schools.  Has she grown softer or wiser?

Our week of contentious issues wraps up with Michael over at My God, it’s Full of Macs portending the end of Flash because a bunch of iPhone  junkies apparently now dictate taste and technology to the rest of us.   Don’t mind me, I’m just jealous.

On a final note, even if you don’t speak French you should check out Le Hub for the artwork on the sidebar.  Earlier today I found this:

Dude has a sphinx climbing up his leg…

do we intervene?