School inspections in England will give more scrutiny to the quality of teaching, in a back to basics shake-up by the Ofsted education watchdog.
And the instructions are pretty basic: Dry shake.
Try a basic vanilla shake.
Would equal distribution mean that we have to relegate "eating" to consumption of basic Soylent shakes or other nondescript Tasty Wheat-esque goop to conserve resources?
The Basics plan shakes up the status quo in another way, too, thanks to a free service called AdManager, now in beta testing.
One basic measure of Shake Shack's influence is the spread of places selling good, cheap burgers.
It was the first entertainment industry to find its basic business model shaken by the Internet, when Napster in 1999 ushered in mass illegal file-sharing.
But such an outcome has done nothing to shake my basic conviction.
Defenses can be as basic as replacing cedar shake roofs and tending the lawn.
And what could be more satisfying than to show them, the world and ourselves that barbarity was unable to prevail over civilization, and madness was unable to shake the basic sanity of our system of justice.
