Friday, July 28, 2017
This is it, right?
An excerpt from NY Magazine -
A Week of Reckoning
By Andrew Sullivan
We have become, at this point, inured to having an irrational president in an increasingly post-rational America. We’ve also come to tell ourselves that somehow (a) this isn’t really happening, (b) by some miracle, it will be over soon, or (c) at some point the Republican Party will have to acknowledge what they are abetting, and cut their losses. And yet with each particular breach of decency, stability, and constitutionality, no breaking point seems to have arrived, even as the tribalism has deepened, the president’s madness has metastasized, and the norms of liberal democracy are hanging on by a thread.
But surely this week must mark some kind of moment in this vertiginous descent, some point at which the manifest unfitness of this president to continue in office becomes impossible to deny.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/a-week-of-reckoning.html
A Week of Reckoning
By Andrew Sullivan
We have become, at this point, inured to having an irrational president in an increasingly post-rational America. We’ve also come to tell ourselves that somehow (a) this isn’t really happening, (b) by some miracle, it will be over soon, or (c) at some point the Republican Party will have to acknowledge what they are abetting, and cut their losses. And yet with each particular breach of decency, stability, and constitutionality, no breaking point seems to have arrived, even as the tribalism has deepened, the president’s madness has metastasized, and the norms of liberal democracy are hanging on by a thread.
But surely this week must mark some kind of moment in this vertiginous descent, some point at which the manifest unfitness of this president to continue in office becomes impossible to deny.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/a-week-of-reckoning.html
From His Mouth to God's Ears
An excerpt from Rolling Stone -
The Anthony Scaramucci Era Will Be Freakish, Embarrassing and All Too Short
Glad-handing hedge-funder turned White House press chief has reignited the comic potential of Trump presidency. It's too bad he won't last past the end of this sentence
By Matt Taibbi
It's hard to believe that it was barely a week ago, on July 21st, that Scaramucci was given Trump's top press job. It feels like it was millions of years in the past, back when Africa was still connected to Brazil, and Sean Spicer was still our idea of a national embarrassment. This is the way time works in the Trump era. Days seem like centuries, and weeks seem like millennia.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-anthony-scaramucci-era-will-be-freakish-embarrassing-short-w494718?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=072817_10
The Anthony Scaramucci Era Will Be Freakish, Embarrassing and All Too Short
Glad-handing hedge-funder turned White House press chief has reignited the comic potential of Trump presidency. It's too bad he won't last past the end of this sentence
By Matt Taibbi
It's hard to believe that it was barely a week ago, on July 21st, that Scaramucci was given Trump's top press job. It feels like it was millions of years in the past, back when Africa was still connected to Brazil, and Sean Spicer was still our idea of a national embarrassment. This is the way time works in the Trump era. Days seem like centuries, and weeks seem like millennia.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-anthony-scaramucci-era-will-be-freakish-embarrassing-short-w494718?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=072817_10
Retiring at 98
An excerpt from Poynter -
He’s spent nearly 7 decades at The San Francisco Chronicle. This year, at 98, he’s retiring.
By Daniel Funke
David Perlman was born in 1918 — a decade before the discovery of penicillin and the Big Bang Theory.
And, for the majority of his career, he covered scientific progress in the 20th century and beyond, writing thousands of articles about everything from the beginning of the space age to the computer age.
Until now.
The 98-year-old science editor is retiring from The San Francisco Chronicle after nearly seven decades at the newspaper, a decision he said had been coming for a while.
http://www.poynter.org/2017/hes-spent-nearly-seven-decades-at-the-san-francisco-chronicle-this-year-at-98-hes-retiring/468149/
He’s spent nearly 7 decades at The San Francisco Chronicle. This year, at 98, he’s retiring.
By Daniel Funke
David Perlman was born in 1918 — a decade before the discovery of penicillin and the Big Bang Theory.
And, for the majority of his career, he covered scientific progress in the 20th century and beyond, writing thousands of articles about everything from the beginning of the space age to the computer age.
Until now.
The 98-year-old science editor is retiring from The San Francisco Chronicle after nearly seven decades at the newspaper, a decision he said had been coming for a while.
http://www.poynter.org/2017/hes-spent-nearly-seven-decades-at-the-san-francisco-chronicle-this-year-at-98-hes-retiring/468149/
San Francisco Via Drone Part 1
Music is obnoxious. You might consider muting it. Otherwise great views.
Slow & Painful
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
The Trump administration: Where your pride goes to die
By Aaron Blake
Getting close to President Trump, it seems, means checking your pride at the door and taking some very public abuse.
Trump's first big-name supporters in 2016 were Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions. He spent the bulk of the rest of the campaign embarrassing Christie before firing him as head of the Trump transition effort. And now he's spent the bulk of the last week haranguing Sessions, his own attorney general, apparently in hopes Sessions will resign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/28/the-trump-administration-where-your-pride-goes-to-die/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.eee8ef039074
The Trump administration: Where your pride goes to die
By Aaron Blake
Getting close to President Trump, it seems, means checking your pride at the door and taking some very public abuse.
Trump's first big-name supporters in 2016 were Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions. He spent the bulk of the rest of the campaign embarrassing Christie before firing him as head of the Trump transition effort. And now he's spent the bulk of the last week haranguing Sessions, his own attorney general, apparently in hopes Sessions will resign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/28/the-trump-administration-where-your-pride-goes-to-die/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.eee8ef039074
Black Gun Owners
An excerpt from the Washinton Post -
‘It seems cool to be racist now’: The rising profile of the black gun owner
By Wesley Lowery
Mark Warner was hovering over the counter of handguns, about midway through the morning shift at Blue Ridge Arsenal, the black-owned gun store in Fairfax County where he’s worked for the past 18 years, when he spotted me.
“I heard you want to talk about black people buying guns,” Warner, himself black, declared in the matter of fact, teasing tone that has endeared him to the store’s regulars. “So what do you want to know?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/27/it-seems-cool-to-be-racist-now-the-rising-profile-of-the-black-gun-owner/?utm_term=.c589dc2eff63&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
‘It seems cool to be racist now’: The rising profile of the black gun owner
By Wesley Lowery
Mark Warner was hovering over the counter of handguns, about midway through the morning shift at Blue Ridge Arsenal, the black-owned gun store in Fairfax County where he’s worked for the past 18 years, when he spotted me.
“I heard you want to talk about black people buying guns,” Warner, himself black, declared in the matter of fact, teasing tone that has endeared him to the store’s regulars. “So what do you want to know?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/27/it-seems-cool-to-be-racist-now-the-rising-profile-of-the-black-gun-owner/?utm_term=.c589dc2eff63&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
He's Smart Enough to Quit
From the Daily Mail -
Ravens star, 26, who is also pursuing a PhD in math at MIT, RETIRES abruptly after shock study shows 99% of NFL players' brains are affected by degenerative disease CTE
By James Wilkinson
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4736612/Math-whiz-Ravens-star-quits-NFL-brain-damage-study.html#ixzz4o8jYykur
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Ravens star, 26, who is also pursuing a PhD in math at MIT, RETIRES abruptly after shock study shows 99% of NFL players' brains are affected by degenerative disease CTE
By James Wilkinson
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4736612/Math-whiz-Ravens-star-quits-NFL-brain-damage-study.html#ixzz4o8jYykur
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Blog Love
From http://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/free-printable-life-skills-checklist-for-kids/
comes a wonderful chart that lists life skills that kids should have at each from preschool through high school.
comes a wonderful chart that lists life skills that kids should have at each from preschool through high school.
A Very Necessary Message Delivered in a Great Little Book
One of the best books I've seen that discusses the issues of black kids dying at the hands of folks hired to protect them is Momma, Did You Hear the News by Sanya Gragg.
It is a must read for anyone raising black kids in America.
It is a must read for anyone raising black kids in America.
Pilot Shortage
An excerpt from CNN -
The U.S. has a staggering pilot shortage
by Jon Ostrower
Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every day in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.
That's one every 15 minutes.
Passenger and cargo airlines around the world are expected to buy 41,000 new airliners between 2017 and 2036. And they will need 637,000 new pilots to fly them, according to a forecast from Boeing released this week. That staggering figure is matched only by how many will leave the profession in the next decade -- particularly in the U.S.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/news/companies/pilot-shortage-figures/index.html
The U.S. has a staggering pilot shortage
by Jon Ostrower
Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every day in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.
That's one every 15 minutes.
Passenger and cargo airlines around the world are expected to buy 41,000 new airliners between 2017 and 2036. And they will need 637,000 new pilots to fly them, according to a forecast from Boeing released this week. That staggering figure is matched only by how many will leave the profession in the next decade -- particularly in the U.S.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/news/companies/pilot-shortage-figures/index.html
Thursday, July 27, 2017
School Segregation
An excerpt from Vox -
School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved.
How parents are gerrymandering school borders and fencing out poor kids.
Updated by Alvin Chang
Their idea was simple: to create their own school district.
Their stated reason was simple: Schools do better when they’re part of smaller, city-based districts where they can make hyperlocal decisions.
So five years ago, organizers in Gardendale, Alabama, decided it was time to secede from the Jefferson County School District — because of the changing “dynamics.”
But this simple idea has historically caused a contentious debate about race, class, and education in America. And when the courts ruled on this issue, it resulted in the biggest setback to school integration since Brown v. Board of Education: a legal decision that allows parents to use borders to segregate their kids away from their less desirable peers.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/27/16004084/school-segregation-evolution
School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved.
How parents are gerrymandering school borders and fencing out poor kids.
Updated by Alvin Chang
Their idea was simple: to create their own school district.
Their stated reason was simple: Schools do better when they’re part of smaller, city-based districts where they can make hyperlocal decisions.
So five years ago, organizers in Gardendale, Alabama, decided it was time to secede from the Jefferson County School District — because of the changing “dynamics.”
But this simple idea has historically caused a contentious debate about race, class, and education in America. And when the courts ruled on this issue, it resulted in the biggest setback to school integration since Brown v. Board of Education: a legal decision that allows parents to use borders to segregate their kids away from their less desirable peers.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/27/16004084/school-segregation-evolution
Falling Sperm Count
An excerpt from New Scientist -
Sperm count has fallen by nearly 60 per cent in richer countries
By New Scientist staff and Press Association
An analysis of research into male fertility suggests that there has been a steep decline in sperm counts for men living in richer nations.
The review pooled data from 185 different studies, and found a 59.3 per cent drop between 1973 and 2011 in the average amount of sperm produced by men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. No similar pattern was seen in South America, Asia and Africa, although fewer studies had been conducted in these countries.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141784-sperm-count-has-fallen-by-nearly-60-per-cent-in-richer-countries/#link_time=1501018098
Sperm count has fallen by nearly 60 per cent in richer countries
By New Scientist staff and Press Association
An analysis of research into male fertility suggests that there has been a steep decline in sperm counts for men living in richer nations.
The review pooled data from 185 different studies, and found a 59.3 per cent drop between 1973 and 2011 in the average amount of sperm produced by men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. No similar pattern was seen in South America, Asia and Africa, although fewer studies had been conducted in these countries.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141784-sperm-count-has-fallen-by-nearly-60-per-cent-in-richer-countries/#link_time=1501018098
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