Open Thread For July 30, 2017
Student Scores Prove It: Our Education Policy Is Not Working. That includes de-facto resegregation.
NCC Police Union Flexes Muscle. Anything that makes the police knucklebreakers unhappy, I’m for it.
Yes, Our Voting Machines Are Totally Vulnerable. Took hackers mere minutes to dismantle security protections at DEFCON in Vegas. Anyone gonna do anything about it?
Huey P. Long’s White House. Fascinating story about the White House that the Kingfish built in Baton Rouge. Wanted to see what it was like to live in it before he made it to DC. There was definitely some Donald Trump in Huey Long’s brand of populism. Time for a musical interlude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEUHEX4g4Cc
Dimming Sunlight, Sucking Co2 Possible Ways To Slow Global Warming? Color me intrigued.
The Warrior Wives Of Evangelical Christianity. Man, The Atlantic publishes the most consistently interesting content around. This piece on female sexuality in the evangelical community meets that standard.
What do you want to talk about?
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Repubs will have more luck finding Dem turncoats for tax cuts for the rich:
GOP to begin vigorous sales-job on tax reform
You got that right. This is where will see who is resisting and who is playing to the cameras.
Carper is running in 2018. Not sure if this was announced elsewhere, but I just got it on his email list.
Carper’s email was titled “at last, a little good news.” I thought Great, he’s retiring!
But no, it was his announcement that he would run, along with an Act Blue fundraising ask.
I’ve said all along …Father Time is his only real opposition.
who took on the standard oil men/and whipped their ass/just like he promised to do/ain’t no standard oil men run this state/gonna be run by little folks like means you.” discuss.
That reminds me. anyone know how Kushner is making out with the bringing peace to the Middle East thing?
Anonymous rex–
Huey Long was a fascinating figure of mythic proportions. One of the best political biographies I’ve ever read is ‘Huey Long’ (1969) by T. Harry Williams. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s something that so biographies are–loads of fun to read.
Broderick Crawford (??!!) portrayed a barely fictitious Huey Long in ‘All The King’s Men’. And here I thought he made his bones with ‘Highway Patrol’.
Fix News is pushing it too
I got my own screen name wrong last night (although I do like the sound of anonymous rex).
Anon: Go for it, I like the sound of Rex too.
Broderick Crawford: also in “Born Yesterday,” another good political movie (with the great Judy Holliday).
Pretty sure that the first time I ever heard ’10-4′, Crawford was barking it into a car phone on ‘Highway Patrol’.
well, “born yesterday” is only sort of political. politics junkies might not want to rush to see it. and 10-4.
Regarding schools: When my son finished 8th grade, focus was an issue. To that end we opted out of public school for catholic school. His attentionality was never an issue. In my mind, this is a legitimate reason to pull out of public education. Of course, we paid for the privilege. That is the difference. We didn’t use a dime of tax money to pay for our choice, and so should it be. The money does not “belong” to the parents, and never did. It belongs to the state because the state mandates public education in Delaware’s constitution. I vigorously object to all charter schools in this state. Pols like Carper and Markell send their kids, and it is reseg. Carper created the opportunity for these marginal schools, and we should end them. (Carper’s kid’s school was the best, of course)
RE: Warrior Wives, this sexuality is all about building big families. “Quiverfull” is the metaphor that guides evangelicals, and it means your children are like arrows, make sure you have a quiver full of them. That may have made sense in tribal Israel some 2500 years ago, when your survival depended upon your family and many children never survived to procreate, but in the 21st century, in the middle of a mass extinction event, the dictum is to reproduce like hell? Crazy town in my mind. Just crazy to ignore what is happening in the world today and put your decision-making ability in the service of a 2500 hundred year old text about sexuality and population.