The Gang in Blue.
It’s very difficult for us to grasp the notion that cops are human beings, subject to the same racial biases and flaws of other human beings. This is not a plea for mercy on their behalf. It’s a plea for understanding that abuse will happen. A gun and a badge do not confer a “great soul.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates :: The Atlantic)
Amen. If they didn’t try to squeeze over two million people on a road that can safely handle half that, we would have most of the real issues in the first place.
Boys need as much teaching as girls get perhaps more.
Parents!! Fidelity, Monogamy, and Sexual Purity Matters for Your Sons Too!:
I’m not here to blast Cain or Newt or any other man taken down by sexual issues, but I am here to say that it’s time that parents and leaders begin to take real time out to educate and inform the boys and young men of our world that their sexuality matters to their future, it matters to their career, it matters to their money, it matters to their name.
(Via Shaun in the City — The Blog of Shaun King)
Amen. Boys need as much teaching as girls get perhaps more. Doing the same with my seed.
Shaun’s version of HOPE.
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Miraculously, the team @ Twitter just gave us @hope to use when we launch in March. How cool is that??? I’d love it if you considered donating one tweet a day for @hope when we begin in a few months.
Social Insurance Keeps Millions Out of Poverty:
Why would we even think of reducing anti-poverty programs before increasing taxes on the wealthy, say to where they were before George Bush decided that we needed to get rid of Clintons budget surplus (one of the few things he did well)?:
TNC, quotes a commenter named David White who must have been channeling me.
I Feel Like A Black Republican:
You know, normally something this stupid wouldn’t bother me, but this story really gets under my skin. If they can try to paint Common as a ‘dangerous black man,’ what black man is immune? If they think Common is vile, then I know they have no use for my black ass. Common is beyond the pale, Michelle Obama hates whitey, Eric Holder is protecting the New Black Panther Party, Shirley Sherrod is discriminating against white farmers, Barack Obama is giving reparations to black people? Conservatives, do you realize how stupid this sounds to black people?
…But shit like this is what prevents me from even getting to the point where I’d give their policies a fair hearing. And I know there are some Republicans and conservatives here, and I say that you have no chance of getting any kind of support from black voters as long as the leaders of your party are pulling these kinds of stunts.
Jon Stewart ethers Faux News:
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[Healthcare] is virtually the only part of the economy where I can go out and get any service I want—cancer treatment, open heart surgery, have a wart removed, whatever it is—and I pay $3 for it or $5 for it or nothing, even if it costs $50,000 or $100,000. I mean, imagine if you had the same situation with automobiles. Where I could show up at the car dealership and I could say, ‘I want the Mercedes for free.’ Well, people say, ‘You can’t have the Mercedes for free. You have to pay $50,000 for it.’ You say, ‘Why not, I have an inalienable right to free healthcare. Right? Why don’t I have an inalienable right to a free Mercedes?’
I love Levitt and Dubner, but here they lose their way. They miss an important moral dimension to the argument over healthcare. The best response was in the comments from “Miichael[sic?]”
To extend your Mercedes analogy, what usually happens is that you are told by your personal Car Expert that you need a Mercedes or you will die. You can’t afford one, and your Car Insurer says they won’t pay for one. So you walk. And you die.
Wow.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Racism of Frame:
On Friday I joked on twitter, the other day, that biggest problem with attempting to write smart is that you end up attracting people who really are smart. And sometimes they write in to tell you you’re wrong. And sometimes, In such cases, your forced to acknowledge their point.
Continue reading “The Racism of Frame”“Anyway, my experience is that of the three modes of mechanized transport I use, trains are by far the most liberating. Planes are awful: waiting to clear security, then having to sit with your electronics turned off during takeoff and landing, no place to go if you want to get up in any case. Cars — well, even aside from traffic jams (tell me how much freedom you experience waiting for an hour in line at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel), the thing about cars is that you have to drive them, which kind of limits other stuff…
So if trains represent soulless collectivism, count me in.”
(Via Paul Krugman.)
Count me in too, Professor. Watching trains pass you by as you’re stuck in a traffic jam doesn’t strike me as freedom.
Smooth jazz is really my Dad’s thing so I’m generally not all that turned on by modern praise and worship music. But the words…Lord, God Almighty.
