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Clint Eastwood's lady boxer movie Million Dollar Baby: From my American Conservative review, now available to electronic subscribers:
reality, women's boxing is a pseudo-feminist trashsport that briefly
flourished in the 1990s when impresario Don King noticed that Mike Tyson
fans got some kind of weird kick out of preliminary catfights between
battling babes.
The rest of my review will be on newsstands in a week or so.
Three Cheers for Ah-Nold -- Last November, 153 Congressional and legislative seats in California were being contested in the election. Not a single one changed from one party to the other due to the extreme gerrymandering in place to protect incumbents. Gov. Schwarzenegger has announced that he's sick of this and wants an independent panel of retired judges to draw district boundaries in the future.
Ah-Nold is on the side of Truth, Justice, and the American Way because gerrymandering has gotten increasingly accurate due to advances in computer technology allows incumbents to protect themselves from fluctuations in the will of the people.
Here's an interview I conducted with the man who is perhaps the leading academic expert on gerrymandering, Dan Polsby of George Mason U.
did Germans outfight Americans, man for man, in 1944-45? Bloggers
like Brad
DeLong are up in arms that British war historian Max Hastings has a
new book out making the point that the outgunned German army fought very
well after Normandy.
reasons the U.S. Army has improved: A recent Atlantic Monthly
article by Robert D. Kaplan quotes a colonel on how much the Army has
improved during his couple of decades of service. He attributed much of
the improved relations between officers and men to the recent spread of
evangelical Christianity, and the consequent decline in drinking. Since
officers and men are not allowed to drink in the same room, back in the
days when most free time was devoted to drinking, the ranks almost never
came in contact off duty.
The Reagan-era reforms, such as higher pay, more Be All You Can Be recruiting advertising, and more patriotism brought in a higher quality of soldier, but for several years in the late 1970s, the military couldn't figure out why its new recruits were so much more incompetent on average than the recruiters said they would be.
The Andamanese and Human Biodiversity Conservation:
Reports remain confused about the fate of the pygmy negritos of the Andaman islands, hit hard by the tsunami, especially the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island, but this almost-eyewitness account sounds promising:
"Our helicopter pilot who flew over [North Sentinel] island told me that he has seen several groups of Sentinelese on the beach and that when he dropped food packets they threw stones at the helicopter."
That sure sounds like the Sentinelese we (don't) know and love! When somebody offers to help them, they try to kill him. That attitude has kept them free of Eurasian diseases all these millennia.
That great picture of a steatopygous Andaman mom and how she carries her toddler around is now on-line here. There's another tremendous picture in Coon's Living Races of Man (1965) (buy it here): a portrait of a young pygmy negrito couple of Little Andaman Island, his arm lovingly around her shoulders, the joy in each other's company radiating outward. It's as happy a picture as you'll ever see. This photo is now on-line here,
That's the point about human biodiversity studies: differences and similarities.
There's a book from 2003 about the Andamanese: "The Land of Naked People : Encounters with Stone Age Islanders" by Scientific American staffer Madhusree Mukerjee.
Reports remain uncertain about the fates of the wild tribes of stone age pgymy negritos on the Andaman Islands, close to the epicenter of the earthquake that was the source of the killer tsunami. Here are long articles from the UK Independent, the BBC, and the UK Guardian, and from MSNBC.
Also struck hard were the Mongoloid Nicobarese tribesmen of the Nicobar archipelago south of the Andamans. There is a modest amount of information about them here. Here's a Thursday afternoon update on the ugly situation in the Nicobars.
If any good could come out of this disaster, it would be to make the world more aware of the importance of human biodiversity conservation. Virtually nobody in the media gave a damn about the Andamanese until this week. The health disaster that outside contact has inflicted on the Jarawa tribe of Andamanese pygmy negritos over the last half dozen years by exposing them to the outside world's germs was almost completely ignored.
Also, the very existence of the Andamanese, with their remarkable physical features, was an affront to prevailing norms of political correctness that demand that we "celebrate diversity" without actually noticing diversity. As I wrote in VDARE,
"The men average 4'-10" and 95 pounds. The women have such pronounced "steatopygia" that a mother who needs to carry her toddler on her back will have the child throw his arms around her neck and stand on her remarkably protuberant, gravity-defying buttocks. (Unfortunately, Carleton Coon's you-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it photo of this is not on line.)"
UPDATE: That great picture is now on-line here. There's another tremendous picture in Coon's Living Races of Man (1965), a portrait of a young pygmy negrito couple, his arm lovingly around her shoulders, there joy in each other's company radiating outward. It's as happy a picture as you'll ever see.
We never miss anything until it's almost gone. Well, now that the last purely wild Andaman tribe, the Sentineli (a.k.a., Sentinelese, Sentenelese, or North Sentinel Islanders -- nobody knows what they call themselves), might be gone, the world has finally noticed that they existed in the first place.
Here's an excerpt from my 2002 interview with George H.J. Weber, founder of Andaman.org.
In an era when we are routinely
encouraged to celebrate diversity, perhaps no group of humans on Earth
is more diverse yet less celebrated than the tiny but fierce Pygmy
Negritos of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. They provide some
of the best examples of what modern humans were like when they first
emerged out of Africa dozens of millennia ago.
What's been happening to the Jarawa tribe in the Andamans?
UPDATE: There's also a book from 2003 about the Andamanese: "The Land of Naked People : Encounters with Stone Age Islanders" by Scientific American staffer Madhusree Mukerjee.
Jerry Orbach, RIP: The 69-year-old actor, whose Det. Lennie Briscoe character on "Law & Order" was one of the most thoroughly likable in the history of television, died today of prostate cancer at 69. He was also a representative of a dying breed: the heterosexual Broadway musical song and dance man. The Tony Award-winner originated the role of the narrator in The Fantasticks and the tap-dancing sleazy lawyer in Chicago. As the enchanted candlestick in Disney's animated classic Beauty and the Beast, he sang the showstopper "Be Our Guest."
A detailed extension of my Marriage Gap theory of Red vs. Blue: Down in Australia, Darvin Hansen gives a detailed analysis of my finding that Years Married (especially, although not solely, for whites) correlated to an extraordinary degree with Bush's share of the vote in 2000 and 2004, and adds some new data.
"Societies don't die by accident - they commit ecological suicide" says an article trumpeting Jared Diamond's new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed:
studies four ancient societies across space and time: Easter Island in
Polynesia, the native American Anasazi tribe in what is now the
southwestern United States, the Maya civilization in Central America,
and the isolated Viking settlement on the coast of Greenland. Although
diverse in nature and context, these four societies experienced what
Diamond calls "ecocide," unintentional ecological suicide.
Contra Diamond, in reality, most societies down through history died because they were conquered. Generally speaking, not suicide, but homicide was the fate of most extinct societies.
Diamond cites the Maya, but I cite the Aztecs and the Incas. He cites the Anasazi, but I cite the Cherokee, the Sioux, and countless others. He cites the Easter Islanders, but I cite the Maoris, the Tasmanians, the Australian Aborigines, the Chatham Islanders (exterminated by the Maori), and so forth. He cites the Vikings in Greenland, but I cite the Saxons in Britain and the Arabs in Sicily, both conquered by the descendents of the Vikings. We can go on like this all day.
Diamond used to be a terrific independent thinker, as shown in his 1993 book The Third Chimpanzee (indeed, many of my examples come from this book). But he sold out to political correctness, most profitably, in his bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Here's my review of GG&S from National Review in 1997:
is not content, however, to merely write the history of the last 13,000
years. He also claims that his evidence is of great political
momentuousness because it shows that no ethnic group is inferior to any
other: each exploited its local food resources as fully as possible. For
example, after the Australian Outback explorers Burke and Wills
exhausted their Eurasian-derived supplies, three times they had to throw
themselves on the mercy and expertise of the local Stone Age
hunter-gatherers. These Aborigines, the least technically advanced of
all peoples, may not have domesticated a single Australian plant in
40,000 years, but in 200 years down under scientific whites have
domesticated merely the macadamia nut. Farming only pays in Australia
when using imported crops and livestock.
Only 7 of those 13 years have gone by, but I'd have to say I'm way ahead of Diamond at this point in forecasting the diverging paths of economic development around the world: I was specifically thinking about South Indian programmers and Chinese manufacturing engineers.
What if all athletes took equal amounts of steroids? Many libertarian-inclined commentators have proclaimed that rather than try to ban steroids, sports leagues should "simply" allow all athletes to take a "moderate" dose.
Of course, this is utterly impractical. It's hard enough to ban steroids, but from the perspective of surviving legal challenges from penalized athletes, it's much more effective to have a blood test rule that says one-molecule-and-you're-nailed than one that specifies X parts per gazillion ... because that opens the door to endless arguments over statistical margins of error. Further, it would just increase the amount of steroids that cheaters would take to even more dangerously high levels, with bizarre illnesses and girlfriends thrown down staircases in 'roid rages increasing concomitantly. If everybody was taking steroids in 1996, how big a dose would Ken Caminiti have taken? He probably would have survived only two years instead of eight after his steroid-fueled MVP season.
Still, a reader has some interesting observations about the effects of this hypothetical system where everybody took the same amount:
do not uniformly affect people. So the effect of universal use of equal
amounts would not be no effect, as you suggest. Rather, it would be
relatively helpful to people with lower levels of (natural) steroids,
who would benefit relatively more from a given dose. It would be
relatively hurtful to people with higher levels, who'd benefit
relatively less.
Much of this already happens. For example, females get a bigger bang per buck of steroids because they have fewer natural male hormones than do males. That's why, as I pointed out in a National Review article "Track and Battlefield" in 1997, the East German sports-industrial complex was able to dope their female sprinters into beating our black lady sprinters, but they failed completely at doping their male sprinters into beating our black men.
Similarly, doping has allowed some clunky white guys to make it to the major leagues: as I pointed out in The American Conservative last spring, Jason Giambi's brother Jeremy is a good example of kind of slow white guy who couldn't make it without steroids.
Still, if everybody doped the same amount, there wouldn't be be all that much change, as we see with Bonds. Not doping (presumably), he was the best player of the 1990s. Doping, he is the best player of the 2000s.
Similarly, Florence Griffith-Joyner was the fastest clean 200m woman in the world at the 1984 Olympics and 1987 World Championships, but she finished second to suspiciously muscular women both times. So, she showed up looking like Wonder Woman in 1988 and made a joke out of the Seoul Olympics.
A lack of doping tests allowed doped women to artificially narrow the gender gap in Olympic running events from 1976 through 1988, although the difference was not huge -- about 10% to 20% of the gender gap in speed.
Also, you could also argue that the randomness of current cheating adds to the drama of modern sports: For example, a Greek man wins the 200m dash in the 2000 Olympics and his girlfriend gets the silver in the 100m dash. After four years as the toast of Greece, with millions of Greeks pointing to their performances as proof that the best blacks aren't innately faster on average, the pair try to fake a motorcycle crash to avoid the drug test at the 2004 Athens Olympics in their home country. Now, that's interesting!
Think how exciting it would be if Tiger Woods showed up on the PGA tour in January as massively muscular as Barry Bonds (attributing the change to his new bride's family recipe for Swedish meatballs) and started driving Par-5s and holing putts for double eagles. TV ratings would triple! Golf writers would make a fortune with articles about how Tiger added 200 yards to his drives by changing where the Vs in his grip point.
Anyway, this whole discussion is theoretical, because there is no feasible system for having everybody take just a little steroids. It's a joke of an idea.
Did the Andamanese pygmy negritos survive the tsunami? The Times of India speculates on the fate of the most isolated uncontacted stone age tribe in the known world, the North Sentinel Islanders in the Andaman chain, northwest of Sumatra:
enormous anthropological disaster is in the making. The killer tsunami
is feared to have wiped out entire tribes — already threatened by
their precariously small numbers — perhaps rendering them extinct and
snapping the slender tie with a lost generation. Officials involved in
rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers
crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as
bearing the brunt of the killer wave. The bigger fear is for the
Sentinelese, anthropologically the most important tribe, living on the
flat North Sentinel Island. Putting their population at about 100,
officials say no body count is possible as the tribe had remained
The Great Andamanese were just about gone due to the introduction of outsides disease when the English and Indians came in the 1850s. The Jarawa thrived in the jungle until they began coming into town about five years ago, and immediately started dying of pneumonia. The North Sentinelese are on their own island, protecting them from germs, and continue to drive off interlopers with showers of arrows.
North Sentinel Island is surrounded by reefs that keep shipping away. Whether that would be enough to stop the tsunami, I couldn't stay. Presumably, the inhabitants have been there a loooong time, suggesting, perhaps, that they've survived tsunamis before. We can only hope.
In happier times, I interviewed George Weber, founder of Andaman.org.
UPDATE: A new report:
Sentinel, Jarwa tribes in Andamans are safe Wednesday, 29 December ,
2004, 01:23 New Delhi: The aborigines in Andaman and Nicobar Islands --
Ongi, Sentinel and Jarwa tribes -- are safe, Defence Minister Pranab
Mukherjee said on Tuesday.
Well, that sounds promising, but whether the minister has solid information or is just telling people not to assume the worst remains to be seen.
British vs. French ex-Empires: As I discussed below, one of the most popular papers in recent economics was "Law and Finance," which argued that countries whose legal systems derive from the British common law provide more protection of outside shareholders than countries with French-derived law codes. Over time, however, this useful little insight has bloviated into a general explanation for the wealth and poverty of nations, illustrating the tendency of modern economists to not see what is in front of their noses.
A reader writes:
curious to hear how they compare the relative performance of Taiwan and
Singapore, both with Chinese populations, the latter with a British
legal heritage and the former without such a heritage, but with almost
identical GDPs per capita today. There is clearly some benefit to be
derived from *not* being ruled by mainland China, but it seems to matter
rather less *who* colonized you (at least, between Britain and Japan).
Colonial Power $GDP per Capita
can find pairings that look like they support the Legal Affairs
contention and pairings that look like they refute it. Ghana (fmr
British) is doing better now than Togo, Benin or the Ivory Coast (all
fmr French). But Nigeria and Sierra Leone (both fmr British) are doing
substantially worse than Cameroon and Guinea (both fmr French). And
Senegal (fmr French) and the Gambia (fmr British) look pretty much
identical. Algeria (fmr French) and Egypt (fmr British) each have Arab
populations, lots of sand and some oil. But Algeria is doing better
economically in spite of the fact that it's been more politically
unstable of late, and the fact that Egypt has the canal and massive
American support. The bottom four basket cases on the list, in economic
terms - Tanzania, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Somalia - were all at least
partly colonized by Britain.
Country Colonial Power Non-African % Total Populat GDP per Capita (USD)
Bluest State Blues: Among the 50 states, Massachusetts ranked 50th in Bush's share of the vote, 50th in Average Years Married among younger white women, 49th in white fertility, and 50th in lack of housing price inflation. Not surprisingly, the AP reports:
- Massachusetts was the only state in the nation to lose residents in
2004, U.S. Census data shows. The state lost an estimated 3,852 people
... in the last year, despite continuing growth in immigration to the
Bay State, the Boston Sunday Globe reported.
Reggie White, RIP: The New York Times obituary of the great NFL defensive lineman and minister says:
"White created a stir in March 1998 with a speech to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In it, he referred to homosexuality as "one of the biggest sins in the Bible" and used ethnic stereotypes for blacks and whites."
In reality, the Reverend White's much-denounced "ethnic stereotypes" speech was one of the more thoughtful celebrations of racial and ethnic diversity in recent years. Across Difficult Country quotes the most vilified section of White's speech in context:
did God create us differently? Why did God make me black and you white?
Why did God make the next guy Korean and the next guy Asian and the
other guy Hispanic? Why did God create the Indians?
I attempted a more elaborate description of black advantages, the ones that can't be measured by IQ tests, in my 1996 National Review article "Great Black Hopes" and in this long book review of Arthur Jensen's The g Factor called "The Half-Full glass," in which I declared myself a "Reggieist."
Colonialism's Surprisingly Weak Impact: Colby Cosh writes:
"'Using sophisticated mathematical models, a group of four economists has proven...'--well, the stunningly obvious: that the best thing a country can possibly do for its economy (and probably its general well-being) is to go back in time and get itself subjugated good and hard by the British Empire."
this doesn't seem that stunningly obvious to me: e.g., Zimbabwe (Where
the joke du jour is, "Q. What did we have before candles? A.
Electricity"), Burma, Iraq, Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan ...
Maybe these are exceptions that prove the rule, but the rule is starting
to look awfully shaky.
MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA COULDN'T BE CALLED TWINS, but they might be called siblings. The adjacent Southeast Asian nations possess similar natural resources and their citizens speak similar languages and follow similar strains of Islam. But Malaysia's economy is prospering while Indonesia's is floundering. Malaysia's stock market is far more vibrant than its neighbor's, and its average resident is three times richer...
the main reason Malaysia is better off than Indonesia is because about a
quarter of Malaysia's population are Chinese, who, according to
Malaysia's former President Mahathir Mohamad, are smarter and harder
working than the indigenous "bumiputras." Mahathir set up a
clever system of affirmative action for the majority that keeps them
from rioting against the Chinese while not burdening the more productive
group so much that they all leave Malaysia. In contrast, as Amy Chua
pointed out in World
on Fire, Indonesia is only 3% Chinese, and the ruling Suharto
family climbed in bed with the Chinese businessmen, so that when the
Suhartos were overthrown in 1998, the Chinese were attacked in populist
pogroms, many fled to Chinese-run Singapore, and the new
"democratic" government nationalized $58 billion worth of
Chinese-owned businesses, with the usual disastrous results for the
The American Prospect Can't Stand the Heat and Wants Everybody Else to Get Out of the Kitchen: After publishing Garance Franke-Ruta's smear of me, The American Prospect is now threatening legal action against anybody who "reproduces" an old article accusing her of racism. You've really got to read this to believe their hypocrisy.
At the time I wrote,
"I must confess that my eyes glazed over while reading about Franke-Ruta's and The American Prospect's alleged high crimes and insensitivities against Latinos. What I saw of it before nodding off seemed no more persuasive than what she wrote about me.
The Winds of Change blog is flabbergasted by the whole deal.
of glass houses,, although Franke-Ruta wrote some obnoxious and absurd things about me (my response is at
http://www.iSteve.com/04DecA.htm#smear ), she shouldn't be silenced for her own political incorrectness.
Personally, I think The American Prospect could use more of the kind of honesty Franke-Ruta is showing in the two paragraphs I quoted above.
A Christmas Song Decline Theory: I like pop classic Christmas songs, such as "Winter Wonderland" or "Chestnuts Roasting Over an Open Fire" for a lot of reasons, including that Christmas is one of the few time of the year when singing in public is tolerated these days. So, like a lot of people lately, I've been wondering why there haven't been any new hit Christmas songs in many years. One of my reader theorized that this is because many of the Christmas standards that were written in the golden age of secular pop Christmas songs between 1934 and 1958 were written by Jews (e.g., Irving Berlin's "White Christmas)," but modern Jews find it ignominious to write Christmas songs anymore. (The reader, in case you were wondering, is Jewish.) "As a great Jewish songwriter sang, 'It ain't me, babe,'" she wrote to me.
That's an interesting theory, and it would be sad if it were true. It probably also wouldn't be, as they say, good for the Jews, because Jews like Irving Berlin helped transform Christmas from purely a Christian holiday into one that was also a secular American holiday, promising peace on earth for men of good will ... of all backgrounds.
I wanted to test this theory, but since nobody of any background is writing good Christmas songs anymore, it's hard to see if the ethnic balance has changed. (Indeed, it's hard to come up with an objective list of good songs of any kind from recent years -- e.g., the recent Rolling Stone magazine top 500 songs list only included three from the last half decade -- two by Eminem and one by Outkast).
However, we live in an an age that still produces some decent Christmas movies -- 2003's "Elf," for instance, hardly compares to "It's a Wonderful Life" (but then what does?), yet it's still a modest delight. The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reports:
Both are written and directed by persons of the Jewish faith. "Elf" is directed (Jon Favreau), written by (David Berenbaum) and has stars (James Caan, Edward Asner) who are Jewish — a rare trifecta, particularly for a Christmas film — a feat that parallels the success of the 1954 "White Christmas" (Michael Curtiz, Norm Krasna and Danny Kaye, respectively).
Favreau, by the way, is Italian on his father's side and Jewish on his mother's side, and says he "keeps a Jewish home."
2002's "Santa Clause 2" was a funnier film than you would expect and made a deserved pile of money because it featured G-rated jokes that adults enjoyed. It's director, Michael Lembeck, is Jewish, as would appear to be some of its many writers.
Nor is it just the better sort of Christmas movie that features heavy Jewish involvement: I haven't seen this year's "Christmas with the Kranks" and "Surviving Christmas," so I'll skip over evaluating how good they are, but they both appear to have lots of Jews working on them in key creative roles.
(On the other hand, Robert Zemeckis, director of this year's slow-motion Christmas hit "The Polar Express," is, to the surprise of many, of Polish Catholic background. And the big three behind 2000's "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," Dr. Seuss, Ron Howard, and Jim Carrey, are not Jewish.)
So, it looks like Jews in the film industry are still quite happy to make secular Christmas movies. This analogy therefore, doesn't support my reader's theory about the decline of Christmas songs. We'll just have to keep looking elsewhere.
Steroid Rationalizations: A baseball blog called The Hardball Times writes:
Unlike, I suppose, pretty much everyone, I don't consider steroid abuse to be cheating at baseball. It's cheating at working out, it's probably cheating other players out of playing time in some instances, and it's certainly cheating those players and teams out of money -- but it's not cheating at baseball. The positive effects of steroids are the same as exercise, just dramatically increased. When you take steroids, the ball doesn't jump over the fence on a bunt. Foul balls don't suddenly curve fair, and you can't suddenly hit any ball anywhere at any time. It makes you a better hitter, but you could achieve the same results with actual hard work. The results in the gym are a fraud, the results on the field are not, because the other team will be able to ascertain very quickly your physical attributes, and play you accordingly.
Exactly how can other teams play Barry Bonds accordingly? By buying their outfielders seats in the bleachers?
And how could anyone achieve the same results as Barry "with actual hard work?" After the age of 35, Barry has enjoyed the three greatest offensive seasons in baseball history. By taking steroids, Barry can work out and more often than anybody who isn't taking steroids.
I've noticed that in the blogosphere, unsophisticated libertarianism and hero-worship of manly athletes frequently combine to turn bloggers into saps for steroid-abusers. Look how many bloggers have endorsed the idea that, well, we shouldn't ban steroid use, just limit it to a safe, moderate amount.
What a stupid idea that is! The whole point of using steroids in baseball is not to use the same amount as your competitors, but to use more. If you all just used the same moderate amount, you'd all be better off using none at all. If they implemented that rule, then to get an advantage, you'd have to take the kind of massive jolts that the late Ken Caminiti started taking in mid-season 1996. (Soon, Caminiti came down with terrible depression when not full of steroids, which led him to self-medicate by smoking crack, which led to his recent death in the gutter at age 41.)
Further, if they allowed any level of steroids, it would make it vastly harder to catch cheaters, since each time they caught anybody it would end up in an endless court suit over whether they actually had the illegal 101 parts per zillion in their blood stream or the legal 100 parts per zillion. Now, all they have to prove is you had a single one of these illegal molecules in your bloodstream ... and it's still hard to win the court fights today.
What is Rove really up to? A reader passes on an interesting interpretation of why Bush and Rove want to flood the country with an unlimited number of foreign guest workers at the minimum wage. They know it won't generate votes for Republicans, but that's not the intention. The goal is to destroy the unions, which are major sources of funds and organizers for the Democratic Party, by providing a nearly-infinite supply of strikebreakers.
A historical analogy: Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union was able to significantly raise the wages of stoop laborers in the 1960s and 1970s because the Eisenhower Administration deported about a million illegal immigrants back to Mexico. Growers fought back against the UFW by sending buses to Mexico and sneaking strikebreakers over the border, so infuriating Chavez that he volunteered his union staffers to the Border Patrol as auxiliary vigilantes. However, the 1982 economic collapse in Mexico sent millions of illegal immigrants northward, crushing wages. Now, the UFW is a dried husk and Chavez, bizarrely, is celebrated as the patron saint of the reconquista, even though he used to turn in illegal immigrants to the INS.
Yet, the number of workers who are in private sector unions has shrunk down so low that this obsession of Rove's seems outdated. Certainly, private sector unionism hardly saps the strength of the economy to the same extent as it did in, say, Harry Truman's day, when a big part of the President's job was trying to head off or settle massive strikes. Increasingly, unionized workers are government employees, who typically are protected from illegal immigrants by laws requiring government jobholders to be citizens.
The AFL-CIO favors a less radical version of the Karl Rove Amnesty Plan, suggesting that they view the political impact of KRAP very differently than Rove does. The unions see two benefits. First, amnesty increases the number of potential union members by bringing illegals out of the shadows. Second, by threatening to destroy American wage levels, KRAP will increase desperation among workers and make them turn to the unions for protection from guest workers, just as the unions first became hugely powerful during the Depression when the supply of labor was far greater than the demand.
I can't say whether Rove or the AFL-CIO is right about the political impact of KRAP, but that there's disagreement between the two most interested parties shows how much Bush and Rove just like to roll the dice more than they like to figure the odds, as shown by invading Iraq and by how they made it easier for Arab Muslim terrorists to hijack airplanes in the first 8 months of 2001 as part of their pursuit of the (almost nonexistent) Arab Muslim vote.
So far, Rove's claim to be a genius is that Bush got elected by a -0.5% margin and got re-elected by less than 2.5% of the vote -- pretty thin evidence that Rove's the infallible seer of politics. A better interpretation is that Rove is an inveterate gambler who has slipped through by the skin of his teeth so far.
While we waste our time and treasure in Iraq: David Barboza reports in the NYT:
DATANG, China - You probably have never heard of this factory town in coastal China, and there is no reason why you should have. But it fills your sock drawer.
The garment industry has traditionally been the first rung up on the ladder of industrialization, from England in the 1760s onward. If China monopolizes the garment trade, however, that will foreclose the first step up for the poorest countries in the world. However, we'll be able to buy lots of cheap socks at Wal-Mart (at least until the Chinese tire of propping up the rapidly becoming less almighty dollar), and I guess that's what's really important.
More of the Derb's Christmas Classics: To the tune of "Let It Snow!":
Whatever happened to redheads? A reader writes:
I'm a redhead and always get discouraged from keeping my natural hair color when I constantly hear "blondes vs. brunettes". It makes me feel invisible and I question if men just aren't attracted to redheaded women. After reading your article though it seems that blondes and redheads are clumped into the same category? I was wondering why that is?
question. I just watched Rosanna Arquette's meandering documentary
"Searching for Debra Winger," in which aging Hollywood
actresses kvetch about how they don't get any good roles after they hit
40 (The title comes from Debra Winger, a big star in her late twenties
with "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Terms of
Endearment," who walked away from The Industry just before her 40th
birthday.). The movie could have been called "29 Blondes and Whoopi
Regarding the natural history of redheads, they appear as far away as the Middle East and the Canary Islands, but the farther west you go in Northern Europe, the more common they are. Western Ireland has a remarkable number -- I'd guesstimate 30% are redheads in County Kerry on the Atlantic. In contrast, blondes get more common as you go north in Europe (typically, golden blondes in the west, ash blondes in the east).
My theory is that both redheads and blondes are sexually selected for in women because they are more noticeable, which women generally want to be. Blonde hair reflects the most light and red hair is the most eye-catching of colors.
However, there are downsides to both. Redheads seem to be associated with very low melanin skin, which can cause big problems when the sun is bright. Redheads get more common the farther out in the Atlantic you go because the skies are more overcast, so the chance of a bad sunburn is less. In contrast, blondes tend to tan better, so they are more common more inland where the weather is less misty. On the other hand, while highly reflective hair makes blonde women hard to ignore, it can be work against blonde men who are hunters or warriors by making them visible from a long way off. (You used to be able to spot the formerly ultra-blond golfer Greg Norman from an enormous distance off at tournaments from the sun glinting off his hair.) So, blonde hair isn't very common where the sun is high in the sky because blonde men then tend to lose the element of surprise.
Apparently, William Safire doesn't want us to miss him when he's gone: That would seem to be the most charitable explanation for his latest column, "Wave of the Future." Not to be outdone, the WSJ op-edsters feature a column by that George Washington of Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi. Meanwhile, for American soldiers in the real Iraq that Safire and Chalabi helped lie us into, horror.
How do I make money off my red-blue findings? Clearly, I've
uncovered more than any other investigator about the great public
question of the season: Why are red states red and blue states
Red-Blue Housing War Stories:
point about the difference between housing-price trends in Northwest DC
and DC's eastern provinces is certainly true. Chevy Chase, DC, is
child-friendly in a lot of ways, and there are plenty of kids here among
the couples who can afford the prices of both homes and private schools.
But the neighborhood is basically a land of $50,000 houses sitting on
$500,000 lots. The two-income families huddle together in the $50,000
houses, while their dogs get to play in the $500,000 lots. Plus, the
dogs get walked every morning and will see their owners early each
evening, since the commute to downtown jobs is so short. I think we must
have the happiest dogs in America.
The increased traffic is bad for bikes, so kids these days expect to get driven everywhere, which is another stress of parenting.
New Blogs: Over on the Links list to the left, I've highlighted in red some blogs I've recently added. Check them out.
Also, The Ambler, Kevin Michael Grace, is back in business. I had nice phone call from him tonight during which he told me many amusing and horrifying stories about the music industry. You know how sometimes you hear a great old song on the radio and you think to yourself: "Isn't it wonderful that the songwriter who composed that song is still getting paid royalties by ASCAP or BMI for bringing that thing of beauty into the world"? Well, don't. The odds are that the royalties aren't going to the songwriter but to some music industry creep who ripped the artist off because he was young and eager. I was please to hear, however, that Elvis Costello, while never a huge star, at least managed to hold on to the cash flow from what he created.
Don't get greedy! In my latest VDARE column, I bragged that LaboratoryotheStates.com found that my Average Years Married among white women measure correlated with Bush's share of the vote not just at the extraordinarily high r = 0.91 level (r-squared = 83%) I reported for a linear equation, but at a bizarrely high r = 0.95 (r-squared = 90%) when you take the log of the statistics. A reader writes:
Beware log-log plots; they almost always make correlations look better than they should. You can correlate almost anything log-log. Try taking a shotgun pattern in a target and plotting it log-log. You can sometimes wind up with a nice linear plot.I'd be more comfortable sticking with your puny (!) .91.
I have to admit that I can't think of any reason the log correlation would be more realistic than the linear one. Any thoughts?
More reports from the trenches of the red-blue housing inflation gap:
One point I think I think is really understated, is the degree to which the Children vs. City Lifestyle is really made at a conscious level by people in their late twenties and early thirties. Do I give up the Met and theater or move to a place where my kids will have their own bedrooms?
By the way, as a resident of Massachusetts, I've seen and lived through the housing price hyperinflation. In the past two years, we've seen countless friends leave because of the combination of wanting to raise a family and wanting to live in a nice neighborhood and house. And these are very smart, educated and successful people that are leaving: lawyers, people with Masters degrees, successful corporate managers. The common thread is: young, not yet home owners, starting to have kids and not a lot of capital built up yet. Most are moving back to where they grew up -- not only is housing cheaper, but you get the grandparents to help out. We know people that bought but with an income from two professionals and then had kids. A few of the mothers have indicated that they would like to stay home (a reversal of plans) with the baby, but can't -- they wouldn't be able to then afford the mortgage. The solution is just what you found.
Dave Barry on Red-Blue:
nation suffered a wound during the recent presidential election as a
result of the rift between the red states - defined as "states
where 'foreign cuisine' pretty much means Pizza Hut" - and the blue
states, defined as "states that believe they are smarter than the
red states, despite the fact that it takes the average blue-state
resident 15 minutes to order a single cup of coffee."...
Final Results: Ruy Teixeira links to Michael McDonald of George Mason University and shows that Bush's win was a little narrower than the 3 points, 4 million votes we had assumed:
Bush 62,008,619 (50.74%)
Judging from both 2000 and 2004, the Democratic candidate will pick up several tenths of a point after everybody stops paying attention and the conventional wisdom ossifies about how big the margin was.
An order of magnitude worse than 9/11? What are the odds that Vioxx, Celebrex, and any other arthritis medicines might have killed ten times more Americans than Osama bin Laden?
The 3rd Secret Behind Why Red States Are Red: My new VDARE column reveals the third factor behind Bush winning a high share of a state's votes: low inflation in housing prices. Bush carried the 26 states with the least inflation in home prices between 1980 and 2004, while Kerry won the top 14 states with fastest growing housing prices.
that, tellingly, in second place as an indicator of GOP predilection, in
between Years Married and Total Fertility, is the growth in housing
prices between 1980 and 2004. The correlation coefficient is -0.82. The
negative sign means that the more housing prices have risen, the more
Democratic the state was.
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question of the season: Why are red states red and blue states
All Politics Is Local: Red and Blue Housing Prices Version: A reader writes:
It's interesting to see your column played out in real life. Here in Anchorage Alaska we have two bedroom communities on opposite sides of the fence. To the south-east we have Girdwood. It's a boutique community centered around a ski resort. Housing is expensive and people there are very liberal (Kerry won the town 70%).
To the North-west we have Wasilla. It's a kind of frontier community, nothing was there 40 years ago, but now it is the fastest growing town in Alaska. Housing is cheap. And the voters...very conservative. Bush won 74% or so.
Anyway, it's a very good comparison since the other factors (race, age, location, etc) are nearly identical.
Tom Wolfe's Portrait of the President as a Young Frat Guy: The main villain in Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons" is a fraternity brother named Hoyt Thorpe, whose depiction offers a lot of insights into the molding of George W. Bush. Which is interesting because Wolfe voted for Bush. He may be a jerk, but when foreigners are out to kill you, you just might want to be led by a jerk, assumes Wolfe.
More roman a clef aspects of "Charlotte Simmons:" The family background of the President of Dupont, Frederick Cutler III, from an ultra-assimilated Jewish family in the diplomatic corps, appears modeled on John Kerry.
Dupont basketball coach / demigod Buster Roth, whom the Jewish faculty members, such as Jerry Quat, quickly determine is German, not Jewish, would be modeled on Polish Catholic Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K).
JoJo Johansen, the only white starter on the Dupont team, is probably inspired by Duke's JJ Redick, although Redick's skills as a shooting guard are closer to JoJo's white roommate Mike.
Also, I'm surprised by how many people don't figure out that the college in "I Am Charlotte Simmons" is obviously primarily Duke, where Wolfe's daugther Alexandra graduated in 2002. Are there any other schools with 1490 average SATs and national championship basketball teams and a social scene dominated by fraternities and sororities? Here's a Duke geology professor listing 14 similarities. I was also struck by his response to the denunciations of the realism of Wolfe's portrayal of elite college students:
How real is Wolfe's Duke? For that slice of the Duke undergraduate body that is represented by Wolfe, I'd say it's very real. I've been at Duke for 14 years now. This is my last year. Every year for the last several years, I've gone on a week-long field trip with Duke students. I've gotten to know Duke students pretty damn well. And about 30 percent of them bear an uncanny resemblance to Wolfe's Duke. The language that they use fits Wolfe's dialogue to a T. The ugly attitudes expressed by them in conversation fit the attitudes described by Wolfe. Wolfe's Duke is a dead on accurate description of about one-third of Duke's student population.
Need your advice: I want to finally get myself a statistics package so I can stop doing multiple regressions in Excel. What's your advice on SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc.? Low price and ease of learning are high priorities.
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" -- I don't have much to say about the new Jim Carrey movie based on the bestsellers for kids by "Lemony Snickett" about three orphans who mock-grimly triumph over a hostile world that's a cross between Dickens and The Addams Family. I took three 12 year old boys who had all read the books and they all liked the film version but weren't blown away.
I too thought it was decent; but it needed one more surprise climax. It ends rather like "Jurassic Park III," where the main characters are flying off to safety in military aircraft, and you figure, "Okay, it looks like the movie is coming to an end, but of course the helicopters are going to be suddenly attacked by enormous bloodthirsty flying pterodactyls right about ... NOW ... no, wait, ... NOW ... no? ... huh, they're really making us wait for the surprise ending ... hey, why are the credits starting? ... why are the lights coming on in the theatre? ... why'd everybody go home? ... I demand my Pterodactyl Attack!"
"Why the Sailer Stomping Now?" asks a reader and I try to provide an answer over at the VDARE blog.
"The Battle Hymn of the Multicultural Republic"
(Apologies to Julia Ward Howe from John Derbyshire)
Contemporary Christmas Classics: There's strong feeling in favor of The Pogues' "Fairy Tale of New York" from 1987, a duet between poor Shane MacGowan (about whom Colby Cosh acerbically notes, "He's been enjoying the last six months of his life for the last 15 years") and and even poorer Kirsty Macoll, about a drunken Irish immigrant:
It was Christmas Eve babe
He tries to to patch things up with his spitfire girlfriend by bringing up all the good times they'd shared, which sound like they took place in 1953:
Sinatra was swinging,
It's not coincidental that this, possibly the greatest of all recent Christmas songs, explicitly refers to the music of mid-century Manhattan when Tin Pan Alley, and its Christmas song-writing minions, was at its peak.
UPDATE: A reader points out:
then he sang a song
Other nominees include:
Christmas - Kinks
And here are John Derbyshire's updatings of Christmas and other songs, such as "The Seven Days of Kwanzaa," "God Rest Ye Merry Democrats," and the admittedly unChristmasy Gilbert & Sullivanesque "I Am the Very Model of the Modern Homosexual:"
am the very pattern of a modern homosexual:
I wonder which testosterone-shooting, Pet Shop Boys-loving, Derb-hating individual the Derb was thinking of when he penned this? Nobody springs to mind. I guess this question will just have to go down in literary history as one of the great unsolved mysteries.
Getting into the mood of this holiday season, a reader adds:
always vote Log Cabin and you know that I'm no liberal.
Contemporary Christmas Classics: There's strong feeling in favor of The Pogues' "Fairy Tale of New York" from 1987, a duet between poor Shane MacGowan and Kirsty Macoll, about a drunken Irish immigrant:
It was Christmas Eve babe
He tries to to patch things up with his spitfire girlfriend by bringing up all the good times they'd shared:
Sinatra was swinging,
It's not coincidental that this, possibly the greatest of all recent Christmas songs, explicitly refers to the music of mid-century Manhattan when Tin Pan Alley, and its Christmas song-writing minions, was at its peak.
Other nominees include:
Christmas - Kinks
And here's John Derbyshire's updatings of Christmas and other songs, such as "The Seven Days of Kwanzaa," "God Rest Ye Merry Democrats," and the the admittedly unChristmasy Gilbert & Sullivanesque "I Am the Very Model of the Modern Homosexual:"
am the very pattern of a modern homosexual:
I wonder which fan of the Pet Shop Boys the Derb was thinking of when he penned this?
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The story is told about a young priest who, on his first sacerdotal anniversary, told his parishioners that the first person who came to him for confession in the parish was someone involved in an adulterous relationship. Later, the town mayor, who arrived late and was unaware of what had been said earlier, proudly revealed to everyone: "I have the distinct honor to be the very first person to go to confession to Father when he first arrived here!"


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The controversial plan to move Berlin's collection of Old Masters to a new building on Museum Island has been rejected by the authors of a feasibility study. The collection should remain in its current location, the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum, near Potsdamer Platz, and a museum should be built nearby to accommodate the city's ever expanding collection of 20th-century art. This is the recommendation made by the study, which was presented today, 21 August, by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the body in charge of Berlin's state museums.
The foundation's original plan, which provoked international criticism, was to empty the Kulturforum's Gemäldegalerie of its Old Masters to make room for the city's growing collection of Modern art, which the neighbouring Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie is too small to accommodate. The Old Masters were to move into a new building opposite the Bode Museum on Museum Island, which raised fears that the collection would spend many years in store while the museum was being built. According to the feasibility study, the estimated cost of the plan was €374m, which is "currently financially unviable" for the foundation. The cost of a new building at Kulturforum, however, comes in at a third of the cost, €130m, according to the report. The new space will display works from the Neue Nationalgalerie, as well as from the Marx Collection, currently shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Flick and Marzona Collections, and the Pietzsch Collection of Surrealist works. The recommendations are due to be considered by the foundation's board of trustees and politicians would have to approve the budget.
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In Focus: Head Start/Early Head Start
Aug 14, 2014 | PERMALINK »
Head Start Children, Families, Staff, and Programs in 2013
By Christina Walker and Stephanie Schmit
Head Start programs provide poor children and their families with comprehensive early education and support services. Each year, programs are required to submit a Program Information Report (PIR) to the Office of Head Start on participating children, pregnant women, and families, as well as the staff serving the Head Start population.
In 2013, the Head Start program served more than 1.1 million children, approximately 166,000 of whom were under the age of 3, and 15,400 pregnant women through Head Start (HS) preschool, Early Head Start (EHS), and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs combined. HS preschool served 85 percent of all federally funded slots, with EHS and MSHS each serving 12 and 3 percent of slots respectively. The 2013 appropriation for all Head Start programs was just over $8 billion; however, federal budget cuts (known as sequestration) were in effect during this school year, resulting in reduced funding for this and other federal programs. While some Head Start programs managed sequestration by reducing the number of children served, others cut back schedules or made other cuts in their budgets.
The program information data demonstrate how important Head Start services are in the lives of these children and families. In 2013, the PIR data showed that:
- Seventy-five percent of families accessed at least one family service through their Head Start program. The most frequently accessed services were parent education (50 percent) and health education (47 percent).
- At the end of their Head Start enrollment, 97 percent of children had continuous access to medical care, 96 percent had health insurance, and 96 percent were up to date on their immunizations.
- Sixty-three percent of families using Head Start included at least one employed parent, and fifteen percent of families had at least one parent in school or job training.
- Ninety-four percent of pregnant women enrolled in EHS received prenatal health care and 76 percent received postnatal health care. Additionally, 92 percent of pregnant women had health insurance at the end of the program year, 40 percent received a dental examination, and 31 percent accessed mental health interventions (a decrease of 4 percent from the previous year).
- In the Head Start Preschool Program, 95 percent of teachers had at least an associate degree (A.A.) in early childhood education or a related field—a 2 percent increase from 2012. In addition, 67 percent of teachers had a bachelor's degree (B.A.) or higher in early childhood education or a related field—a 5 percent increase from 2012.
- In the MSHS program, 98 percent of children had a medical home for ongoing medical care and 91 percent had a source for ongoing dental care by the end of the program year.
Read more about Head Start preschool, Early Head Start, and Migrant and Seasonal (new this year) participants, families, and staff.
View state-by-state Head Start and Early Head Start data through CLASP's unique web-based DataFinder.
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Meeting Children's Mental Health Needs in Child Care and Early Education
More than half of children under age 18 have been diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder, according to a new report by Child Trends and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. While the authors make the case for reforming health and mental health services to increase access for children and youth, they also present broader recommendations to support child wellness, emphasizing healthy child-adult relationships, along with positive routines and practices for children. Their approach has implications for services, family engagement and support, and professional development in early childhood settings.
- Serving children in high-quality child care settings that offer comprehensive services to families is important both to offer children consistent care and routines, and to identify children and families in need of support. High-quality early childhood programs ensure that young children access developmental screenings that may uncover potential mental health problems. According to early findings of the National Survey of Early Care and Education presented at the recent Head Start National Research Conference, almost all (97.9 percent) Head Start centers offer assistance with developmental screening, which helps identify mental health concerns. Nearly all (88.5 percent) public pre-kindergarten programs offer screening, as do 73.4 percent of private early childhood programs.
- Caring for children with family stress and potential mental health concerns, as well as related behavior challenges, is an urgent training need for the early childhood field. One approach to building the capacity of early childhood staff is the mental health consultation model. An increasing number of states offer programs serving young children some kind of mental health, health, or behavioral consultation, in which the consultant can provide training and guidance in identification of mental health concerns, referral to and coordination of follow-up diagnosis and treatment, and strategies to support the child's development and learning.
- Finally, the report suggests that two-generation approaches using effective family engagement strategies provide parents with the skills they need to manage their children's behavior and mental health needs, while also potentially identifying needs of the adult for mental health or other services. These types of two-generation approaches can be particularly successful in strengthening the capacity of both parents and children. Parent and child wellbeing are inextricably linked to one another, and challenges to either can interfere with family economic success and positive child outcomes.
Policymakers can support child wellness and increase access to mental health services by looking for opportunities to incorporate comprehensive services and related supports into their child care quality, professional development, and financing systems. Expanding access to high-quality programs like Early Head Start and Head Start can also make mental health services more available to those children who are most vulnerable. While supporting child wellness and increasing access to mental health services is a challenge, high-quality child care and early education settings provide an opportunity to identify and serve young children at risk, while building and supporting the family's capacity to meet their mental health needs.
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A Two-Generation Approach to Policy
In a forum earlier today, co-hosted by CLASP and the Foundation for Child Development (FCD), panelists discussed two-generation policy solutions to reduce poverty. Panelists highlighted local innovation, as well as opportunities for large-scale federal and state policy changes to improve educational opportunities from early childhood to community college to workforce development. With diverse perspectives and experiences, the panelists shared a common vision that the circumstances of poor families are too important and too widespread to continue our current public policies without rethinking how to serve families as a whole, rather than adults and children independently. Fortunately, we have many opportunities to take action.
A new CLASP brief examines major federal and state policy areas for large-scale change that better support families as a whole. Two-generation policies reflect strong research findings that the well-being of parents is inextricably linked to children's social-emotional, physical, and economic well-being. And at the same time, parents' ability to succeed in school and the workplace is substantially affected by how well their children are doing. Despite growth of local two-generation programs, which combine services for parents and children, little attention has been given to two-generation approaches to large-scale policy change. These opportunities include:
- Pair education and training pathways with child care and early education. Identifying opportunities for better policy choices that would make it easier to pair education and training pathways with early education would help both parents and children. This would require rethinking program design throughout many policy areas, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), workforce development, higher education, child care, and Head Start.
- Expand early childhood home visiting programs through state and federal investments, and seize other opportunities to help parents and young children in their very vulnerable early years. Home visiting programs offer a variety of voluntary, family-focused services to expectant parents and families with new babies and young children in the families' homes. Many home visiting programs have a two-generation approach, focusing on the parenting skills and needs of parents while providing child development activities, although this varies tremendously depending upon the model used.
- Improve child care policies for both children and parents. Continuity and stability of care can improve children's early education as well as adults' work stability. Removing work schedule verification requirements and allowing for broader authorizations can make child care assistance more usable for parents with work schedule challenges. Linking child care enrollment policies with those of other public benefits can also reduce the burden on parents to get and keep subsidies.
- Improve labor policies for low-income workers. A comprehensive package of improvements in labor policies, including an increase in the minimum wage, advance notice of job schedules, the right to request and receive flexible and predictable job schedules, minimum hours, and paid family and medical leave and paid sick days, would support low-income workers in their role as parents.
- Expand access to health care and mental health treatment. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers a game-changing opportunity. The ACA tears down major barriers to depression treatment and provides many mothers with health insurance for the first time. The benefit package includes mental health (and substance abuse) treatment, access to primary and preventive care, as well as, prevention screening and quality measures to target depression.


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Jessica- I'm trying to think of a good place. I know by me there's a place called Airworx and they have wifi and 2 and under is free and I think maybe $6hr for older. It's not too crazy on a weekday. Or I've heard of a place called Sozo coffe and they are supposed to have a play area for kids, but I've never been and I think that would be a further drive. Any thoughts? What time do you do naps? My girl either naps at 10-11:30 and 3:30-5 or I put her down for 1 nap around 1-3 but she's kind of all over the place right now so I just adjust it to my day
Hey Amanda, sorry I was out of town for a few days. I could also pretty much meet whenever, I have two boys who are 1 and 3. We could meet during the week somewhere if you'd like! Maybe someplace where our kids could run around and we could talk :)
Jessica- I live in chandler but I live close to the 10 off Ray Rd. When could you meet? I stay at home with my 1 year old so I'm pretty open. Whats your schedule like?
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Spielberg has hired two Oscar-winning actors to star in this film. Daniel Day-Lewis will play President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field will play First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.