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Comment: Re:How are these better than traffic lights? (Score 1) 39
I don't get it. What's wrong with using traffic lights?
Dead or alive, you're stopping at this intersection!
Comment: Re:Seriously (Score 2) 213
So yes, those elevators do solve an actual problem. They're not the best solution (hooks and/or screws are cheaper and at least as effective, probably more so, while taking up less floorspace), but they are a solution. For suckers.
But one of the reviews says: "The damn things do lower noise, increase dynamics, remove haze, and open up the top octaves. Once you listen to their effects, even a skeptic like me has to admit that it is hard to take them back out of the system. Music sounds more like music with the Cable Elevators in place. I recommend them strongly, especially given their price!".
How can you argue with that? LOL
Comment: Re:But then don't some have to go FASTER than ligh (Score 2) 139
Not a physicist, but a cyclist and an engineer--
If the population travels as 'c' on average, and they have proven that some photons slow down... Doesn't that mean other photons MUST be traveling faster than c? My impression is the relativity has no bearing here--by traveling at 'c' they are already breaking that equation. The peloton works because some move back while others move up. This blurb seems to only discuss the "back" part.
Try reading about phase and group velocities. In fact some EM waves have velocities above c, but these can't convey information so aren't a problem for relativity. This article has a decent discussion of it and other things that go faster-than-light.
Comment: Re:Crash-testing & strength? (Score 1) 128
That's awesome, but how does that relate to crash-testing & safety standards? Are these such low-volume the normal regulations don't apply?
Do they embed reinforcements or print around a base frame?
Sounds like an awesome concept, but so many questions...
Summary says car bodies, so these are essentially kit cars.
Comment: Re:Bad idea (Score 2) 385
Why would a corporation care?
My corporation would care as we access data that's considered controlled goods, and can be fined heavily and lose a good part of our business if the data gets accessed by anyone else. I'm not sure the State Department is going to say that's ok, since it was the FBI, because the VPN is then known to not be secure.
Comment: Re:Virtualisation dates from the 1960's ! (Score 1) 180
Also, vector processors are also from the 70's as well.
Comment: Re:Counter Logic (Score 1) 412
Actually totalled my car when driving with a very pretty lady
Did you panic when she started deflating?
- She's cuddly and she's bouncy
- She's like a rubber ball
- I bounce her in the kitchen
- And I bounce her in the hall
Comment: Re:More important: how is this happening? (Score 1) 70
Unfortunately, TFA doesn't suggest the question. Gamma bursts were not expected on Earth because they are created by nuclear interactions. Common for stars and other cosmic objects but not expected in thunderstorms. The source could be electrical, which means they are technically x-rays but at a higher energy then thought possible. Alternatively, there is significant nuclear fusion going on in those storms.
Actually gamma-rays are very common on earth. In fact, a common geophysical method of exploration called airborne gamma-ray spectrometry (sometimes called radiometrics) is widely used for regional mapping and mineral exploration. One of the corrections applied to this data is the removal of the cosmic component. The cosmic gamma-rays have greater energies than those from the decay of naturally occurring potassium, uranium, and thorium in rocks and soil.
The article just says gamma bursts, but they must mean high-energy gamma bursts.
Comment: Re:How far will it go? (Score 1) 191
I'd argue that A pillars have been getting progressively fatter to the point now that in some cars they are dangerous. Having years of FPS gaming experience I have hawk like spatial awareness, but even I've been caught out with once or twice with entire cars hidden behind the A pillar at certain angles. Some cars are worse than others, the worst I've had is the Holden/Vauxhall Monaro/Pontiac GTO. The A pillars in that thing should be illegal.
Well a lot of cars have air bags in them now, which explains the bulking up.
Comment: Re:Time travel (Score 1) 107
For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter Institute last Tuesday at 20:00. The meeting location will be posted next Wednesday.
You've got this completely wrong grammar-wise!
"The main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father."
Comment: Re:No bigger than ... (Score 1) 325
Yeah, but birds can't carry explosives
It could grip it by the husk.
Comment: Re:It won't be long (Score 1) 325
It is an avoidable risk, in that we can tell idiotic humans to stop flying quadcopters near planes, you fools!
how do we know that this wasn't a government drone and/or operated by or at the government's direction?
Idiotic humans covers that possibility!
Comment: Re:Unsolved problems (Score 1) 90
Add one to that count. I tried building a fusion generator last night when I was drunk. Just like all the other attempts mine didn't work either.
Perhaps you just suck at building fusion generators, like the Apollo 13 astronauts sucked at stirring.
Well, what do you expect, when you send Forrest Gump into space.


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This is my 1930's bicycle, bought for 35 euro's.
I use it as often as I can.
You can see me in some of my other photos cycling at events in my 1940s clothing.
The front tire can be replaced by a wooden one, ww2 style.
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Ouderwetse kwaliteit!!
Sweet bike!
Is this the one you were riding in the parade photo?
If you can add these bike pics to the bike groups, the members would appreciate them.
Looks like it's fun to ride.
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called LADIES & GENTS HUB GEARED VINTAGE ROADSTERS, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Goed zo, met orginele witte banden. Die zijn hedentendage moeilijk te verkrijgen, heb ik gemerkt.
Love those loopframes!!
Nice 1930's looks, I got an even older Simplex, I ques it is from about 1915.
It has the short front-mudguard like usual in the years before WW1.
For the rest it looks like an older sister of yours !
Look at my pictures, it is there !
De beste oma fiets, en origineel
OMG~ such a nice bike!!! where did you get it from? i want one as well!
I bought in on the internet, 35 euros
Die fiets in goede staat is meer waard dan een
auto.Betekent namelijk vrijheid onafhankelijkheid
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called El mundo en bicicletas, and we'd love to have this added to the group!


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I am redoing my bathroom, and am wondering am I able to install new drywall "greenboard" over the old wall material that is there? The room has evidently been done numerous times in the past. The existing material is what appears to be a plastic type wall covering about 1/8" thick, similar to what you would find in the shower area of a very old mobile home, over top of 1/8" thick smooth paneling. I am removing the first layer, and I was going to go down to the studs, but then I have the blown in insulation falling out. Looking at the GP web site, it states, "Old wall material must be perforated sufficiently to prevent a double moisture barrier". Am I going to run into problems if I do not remove both layers of wall material?
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If I were you I'd remove the existing. If moisture gets trapped between that and the layer your adding it can create more problems than it's worth. Plus you want to make sure you get good contact if you are tiling.
See if you can get into the attic and move the blown from the ceiling, you can put it back when you're done. Wear a good respirator up there. That needs a vapor barrier as well.
When you do take off the existing do one wall at a time & place 6 mil poly stapling it up in sections and working with the blown that way. It will be less of a problem it should only be in the exterior walls at any rate. You need the vapor barrier in those locations anyway,(unless you're in the deep south then use landscape cloth). It's the interior walls that really need to breath, the exterior you want to protect from the flucuations in temperature creating moisture at the dew point.
See if you can get into the attic and move the blown from the ceiling, you can put it back when you're done. Wear a good respirator up there. That needs a vapor barrier as well.
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Forgotten Arisaema
Our refrigerator went south last weekend and while cleaning it out to dispose of it I found a jar with baggies of seedling Arisaemas I had forgotten were in there. These were all bulblets in there for their second dormant period, placed there in January and February, and most had started to grow new leaves and new roots already. Naturally the silver leaf consanguineum which I particularly wanted were the ones which did not survive and had rotted. "Cest la vie"!! About 50 A. ciliatum bulbs and fewer of several other kinds had survived in great shape. Some of the ciliatum had shoots over 8 inches long curling around in the baggies. I planted them all out in a protected bed in the garden and just hope its not too late in the year for them to settle in and survive the winter. Some are perking up and greening up more so I'm hoping.


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If I was on C-SPAN, I'd be more careful about what I said in case I ended up on the commentary end of "The Daily Show"!
The state of New South Wales in Australia has done away with registration tickets and is relying solely on automatic license plate readers to determine if your car registration is up to date or not.
How old is the stupid Berne Convention? I'm certain the world has moved on since then.
What do you mean by the device being rooted?
Oh hooray, we have Stan (which is a dumb name for a streaming service), Quickflix, Presto and tomorrow we'll have Netflix. The thing is, I can't afford to subscribe to every darn service. And they don't have much I actually want to watch either.
Quickflix charges extra for "premium" shows like "Call The Midwife" and "Game Of Thrones". In fact, for the price of subscribing to Quickflix for one month then the additional fee for "Game Of Thrones" per season, I could buy the BluRay for a couple of dollars more, or the DVD for a couple of dollars less. And buying the discs means I don't use any of my monthly data quota.
I think you completely missed the point of why that story was and is relevant.
The point Viacom made was that YouTube is full of infringing videos and Google should know which ones are infringing and remove them. Google basically replied stating that it can't know which ones are infringing unless it's been told which ones. Viacom promptly produced a list of infringing videos, including quite a few that Viacom staff had uploaded themselves.
Therefore either those videos uploaded by Viacom staff were official after all or Viacom was engaging in entrapment by uploading infringing videos in order to get Google into trouble. But if they're not involved in entrapment and the videos uploaded by Viacom staff are official, how is Google meant to know that they are official when even Vicaom, who own the videos, can't tell if they were official?
And so the lawsuit went. Nobody is condoning the stealing of intellectual property, let alone monetizing the stealing of intellectual property.
There was an episode of "Blue Heelers" like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRKvsEM0uxw
I had an idea to crowdfund the DVD's and LP's I wanted to see released. I wanted to license out the content, primarily TV shows and some (mainly Australian) albums, and release them to DVD (the TV shows) and LP (the albums) but I ran into two huge problems which have stopped me.
Problem 1: How do I let people pay me for the crowd to actually fund me? I'd use the Kickstarter "model" of if I can't do a project, such as if I'm refused a license, I will refund the backer's money.
Problem 2: Finding the rights holders for many of the shows I wanted to license is actually next to impossible because they keep forming multi-studio groups named after the show, so the show is copyrighted to the name of the show or some variation thereof.
I'd really like to try this. And if you can think of a way to get it done where I can't, go for it. This idea is free for any and all to use, no strings attached. Not even attribution required.
Also ironic is the fact that they would have sent all this through a website to translate into morse code. Imagine how long that could have taken if there was fast and slow lanes of the internet? I assume the morse code translator site would end up in the slow lane as it wouldn't have the funds to pay for fast lane access and besides it's not very important as nobody wants to use morse code anymore.
I'm just reading this at work. Hope I don't get fired!®™
I'd like to see more of this stuff happen. For example, now that this has happened, Samsung can redesign their washer doors to be LG proof! And LG can build a TV that learns keywords for voice control within the TV. I'd like to see Apple and Samsung battle it out, literally! Then Sony and Microsoft! Then Nintendo could grab their Pikachus and zap the other two too! I like where this is going.....
October 21st, 1861 was a landmark day in the history of telecommunication: the First Transcontinental Telegraph was completed, connecting the small existing networks on the east and west coasts, causing people to cry out in alarm about all the suddenly unemployed riders for The Pony Express and resulted in many newspaper articles claiming that that this would cause people to stop talking to each other, stop writing letters and to start ending every sentence with the word stop!
With all the techno-panic about everything ever, I would not be surprised if this was the case.
What if there was a law all those years ago hat prevented large chain stores? For example, there could only be one McDonald's in the world. Then nobody would have to pay McDonald's to make the same hamburgers. Anyone could make a Big Mac using the same recipe. But they could not call their burger place McDonald's. In theory the good Big Mac makers will survive and the crap ones will slowly go out of business. Now apply that to not just McDonald's but to every Wal-Mart, K-Mart, etc, and imagine what that would be like.
I don't know what that would be like, whether it'd be good or bad. I just think it'd be a good springboard for discussion.
Basically I think the constitution should be re-written from scratch. By the public. Crowdsourced. The current one isn't bad, not in the least, but I think it needs a massive update. The old one would be the basis for the new one. Why do I suggest this? Because times have changed since it was written over 200 years ago.
As a counter-suggestion, maybe not re-write the whole thing but get every point clarified. Again, crowdsourcing it.
After that certain date 13 years ago, there was an anti-terrorism ad campaign on television here in Australia that basically did the whole "see something, say something" along with a list of things that would be suspicious.
Now, one thing on the list was photographing things but the picture accompanying it showed somebody shoving their camera through a fence and taking pictures of some kind of compound. So obviously if you stick a camera through a fence to take a picture of, say, a food distribution plant, because, say, you might be making a blog on food trucks, you might be a terrorist.
The answer is YES, THIS SITE IS GOOD ENOUGH! But, alas, I can't write to the FCC or Congress as I am an Australian citizen on a lovely 1.5Mb or less connection.
Back when I was with Vodafone, I was always on the next tower up. For example, I was in the suburb of Edmonton on the south side, connected to the White Rock tower to the north. When I went to Gordonvale, to the south, I was then connected (for the first time) to the Edmonton tower. I lived in Edmonton. Google maps https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Edmonton+QLD+4869/@-17.0103523,145.7372872,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m 2!3m1!1s0x69786212a04af377:0x500eef17f210720 I was just off Mill Road.
EU laws? They sounded like watered down Hollywood laws. Though I guess Europe is fussy about copyright. After all, even our TV networks play French cartoons and many Australia TV shows are co-financed by German companies.
I can't! The damn thing won't work!
One company owns about 95% of all the lines. Speeds can be abysmal. "New high speed network coming soon!" says the government, then screw it over twofold by creating a new monopoly and then abandoning the whole idea!


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The country learned today that their economy shrank 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. This puts Britain on the precipice of what The Guardian says is an "unprecedented" tripple-dip recession. That is, its third recession in four years.
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working on a quilt? I really don't like to use that word because I don't consider it work. Unless, someone has asked me to make one with their choice of fabrics which I think are ugly lol!!!!!
Jayne's Sylvia made me think of the question. My first quilt was a whole cloth and took me three years to finish. I wasn't involved in any other quilting project, just a working single parent taking college classes. I never considered it a UFO always a WIP and enjoyed quilting it whenever I had the time.
I'm amazed that Jayne acccomplished so much in such a short time. That is not an easy quilt to make! What was your longest project, from start to finish, that was not considered a UFO??
It's a tie between two double wedding ring quilts I picked up at two different garage sales. Both were started but not finished. All the pieces were there. I keep telling myself I need to pull them out and finish them but everytime I think about it something happens and I never get to them. I think I've had the two quilts about 6 years now.
One of these days very soon they are going to get done. I can't garden this year so I'm sewing up a storm. I've got a quilt top I'm working on right now that's been in my head for several years.A light finally came on in my head as to how to do it the way I have it in my mind. I'm stitching every bit of it by hand.
The longest was the first one I made. A full sized sampler that was hand piece (1978). I finished the top in class because the inst. said anyone finishing she would have the class hand baste it. I was determined and succeeded having it put together. I hand quilted it but it took me 5 more years to complete as I wasn't as committed by that time. I kept for a while but passed it on to one of my daughters who had block dedicated to her family.
I just finished a quilt that was started sometime in 2006, as far as I can tell. I designed it myself so I made the center then waited for inspiration for the next part, then the next part, etc. I finally finished the top in late 2009 then rolled it up and stuck it in the closet. I didn't get up the nerve to start quilting it until last Dec. But it's finally done!
My first quilt is a king size log cabin variation that is all hand cut with scissors (before rotary cutters!), hand pieced including the backing seams, and hand quilted. I don't remember how long it was in progress but it was probably longer than six years like the other one!
Mostly I think I go too fast...I keep telling myself to slow down and enjoy the process rather than sprinting for the finish line.
Not counting the crib size whole cloths with the pattern stamped on them I bought about 20 years ago and the ones that have not been actively worked on periodically throughout the years, I'd say about 3 1/2 years. It's Uncle J's Ties, and I've worked on it little by little from the time they were given to me. This month is 4 years since he's been gone and wonder of wonders, I'm determined to finish it this month!
I started quilting in 1987 before my daughter was born. I had to stop working earlier than I had planned so DH took me to get fabric for my first bed quilt. I bought the fabric in Dec of 1987, cut it out (the old fashioned way) and had it pieced by the end of 1988. I took it to a local hall and the ladies put it in a quilt frame and we basted it. They kept saying that since it was in the frame, why don't we all just quilt it. I said that since it was the first bed size quilt I had made that I wanted to do all of the handquilting by myself. It finally made it to my bed on March 21, 2004!So, from fabric purchase to completion it was 16 1/2 years! I had made many baby quilts and other small quilts during those 16 years but handquilting a queen sized quilt in a hoop on my lap was quite daunting!
You have me beat, Mary! I pieced a queen sized bear-paw in beautiful batiks and black back in 2000. I have been handquilting it ever since and still have quite a way to go. I have completed lots of other quilts, including a different on for my bed where this one was supposed to go! Maybe 2012 will be the year ...
My first quit, a queensize backwards pinwheel quilt, I started it in 2000 and finished it in 2008. I did not use the sewing machine with it, I did all the sewing by hand and hand-quilted it with a hoop in my lap. That's the longest it has ever taken me to sew/quilt a quilt.
Best to you,
I started a Baltimore Album quilt just before my grandson was born. He is eleven now. I work on it a few weeks each winter. It is my first appliqu� quilt and my first attempt at hand quilting. I have learned a lot and will have it done soon I hope.


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What a gem!
Is it just me or does the second half of this become Resurrection of Ernie?
Awesome solo from John.
Holy shit... so, I'm starting my first semester of college next week and I'm sitting around as I've always done listening to music fixing my library and all that and I'm listening to the majesty demos for the first time, right? and this song comes on, it's nice like the rest of this (the album kicks a whole lot of instrumental ass) and I mean.. I feel nice, I feel closure, I feel like I'm ready to start back in things school wise which I never have before, I feel like summer is over and I'm just ready to get on my way... and then I look and see that what I'm listening to is called "The School Song." a bit strange/funny, eh?


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The Dress, and other blogging and articles about genetics (mostly)
Posted by Sappho on March 30th, 2015 filed in Blogwatch, DNA
Sometimes it's as interesting to find out where an odd difference probably isn't strongly influenced by genetics as to know when it does. A month ago, when the Dress swept the Internet, 23andMe customers asked whether their friends' perverse inability to see the fact that the Dress was
blue and black/ white and gold/blue and gold (I'm #TeamBlueAndGold, but I'm in the minority) might have something to do with genetics. 23andMe obliged with a survey of selected customers who had agreed to participate in research, and reported on the results here and here (including a white paper on the survey). Because 23andMe has already collected a bunch of survey information from customers who have agreed to participate in research, they were able to correlate responses to a few simple questions about the Dress (what colors do you see in this picture, what colors did you see when you first saw the Dress, do you see the colors as constant or do they shift) not only with the customers' genes (or at least the subset that 23andMe samples), but also with other survey responses. Here is what they found.
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Now, about that Germanwings plane
Posted by Sappho on March 27th, 2015 filed in News and Commentary
First, if you read French, the French papers tend to be fuller on details here (or full on details with less delay); here, for instance, is yesterday's article in Le Monde about the prosecutor's assertion that the co-pilot probably deliberately downed the plane. A friend of a friend also passes on this article and this article in Liberation.
Second, you can check out the Guardian live blog for lots of updates (as I write this, the last update appears to be 20 hours ago, perhaps there's a newer one for today's updates or perhaps not). I note that the number of airlines requiring two people in the cockpit at all times has just dramatically increased.
Third, though having two people in the cockpit at all times does sound like a good idea (even if the flight attendant who becomes the second person when the pilot steps out can't fly the plane, he or she can let the pilot back in), it's worth remembering that there's a reason why cockpit doors are reinforced to begin with, and that, infrequent though terrorist attacks on planes may be, terrorists are still more common than suicidal/homicidal pilots. Bruce Schneier has said, "Only two things have made flying safer: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers." (I'm not sure that the measures that Schneier says only deter stupid terrorists are entirely useless, because many people are, in fact, stupid. But I'm sure he's right that these two things protect us way more than any of the other measures.)
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Razib Khan and the New York Times
Posted by Sappho on March 27th, 2015 filed in News and Commentary, Race
I found out a week after the fact that Razib Khan, one a science blogger at Discover Magazine and now a blogger at Ron Unz's site, got hired and fired by the New York Times in a single day. If he had still been blogging at Discover I'd have found out right away, because I read him regularly for a while, back then, but as it is I was spending my news reading time paying attention to Ebola, and whether Tsipras can settle his disagreements with Merkel, and just what happened to that Germanwings airplane, and so almost missed altogether how the New York Times hired 20 new people at once, and then quickly fired one of them.
Anyway, if someone was going to be hired and fired by the NYT in one day, Khan is about the least surprising person this could happen to. He is, in fact, both exactly the sort of person I'd expect the NYT to hire, and exactly the sort of person I'd expect them to fire. Nothing about this incident really surprises me (including Khan's post shrugging the incident off and saying he's off to relax with a good book – while Khan can be as touchy and ready to take offense as the next blogger if he thinks someone has insulted him, he's always struck me as someone allergic to seeing himself as any kind of victim – railing about losing a job isn't the kind of thing he'd want to do).
The issue, of course, was race. "Of course," I say, because if you'd followed Khan for any length of time, that's just what you'd expect the sticking point to be. But putting it that way makes it sound unsurprising that Khan would be fired without explaining why it would be unsurprising that he would be hired. By "of course" I don't mean "anyone who spent five minutes Googling Razib Khan or checking his work ought to know that he's a flaming racist." Let me explain.
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Swallow Day
Posted by Sappho on March 21st, 2015 filed in Daily Life
Today, Joel arranged an outing for our support groups: we attended the Swallow Day parade at San Juan Capistrano.
Every year at this time, the story goes, the swallows return to the old mission church at San Juan Capistrano. When we moved down here and visited the mission, someone told us that these days, the swallows actually return to the Mission Viejo mall. But, either way, every year in San Juan Capistrano, there is a parade to welcome them back.
Among those included in the parade:
- People in old Wild West outfits firing guns (I presume not real, but with noise and smoke that were real enough and that moved the little dogs near us to bark).
- People in military uniforms, some mounted and some not, until I began to wonder whether this would be mostly a military themed parade. (Sometimes I think that we are, after all, the Klingons: a proud warrior people.)
- Closing out the military themed groups, a celebrated war horse (evidently the most famous war horse alive today?).
- Friars (whether actual or reenacted I am not sure).
- More men and women in Wild West garb.
- Mixed with them, men and women and children in Mexican garb.
- People from the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation;
- An Italian language group, including people singing "O Sole Mio".
- Children from the Boys and Girls Club.
- Girl Scouts.
- Children from many local schools. Mostly Anglo schools, mostly Latino schools, and thoroughly mixed schools (with Asian-American and black kids intermingled in all groups). A school that boasted a 71% college admission rate for students who, when admitted to college, were, 95% of the time, the first in their family to attend college. A charter school from Mission Viejo, whose name included "Oxford." Boys playing instruments and girls swinging flags and batons.
- Little girls being pulled in wheeled canoes, who shrieked when the men pulling the canoes spun them.
- People walking alongside the parade, but not officially in it. I noted a T-shirt proclaiming its wearer "pi-lingual" (but with the letter pi, not the word), a T-shirt saying "I can't breathe," and a sign protesting the closing of a local community center.
- Women from the Daughters of the American Revolution, in colonial garb.
- Reenactors of the Mormon Battalion.
- Mexican-Americans in Aztec garb.
- Police and fire brigades from various local towns.
- Horses, horses, and more horses. Joel and the others estimated that there were 500 to 1000 horses.
- Many more groups. Enough to fill two hours, from the first who passed us to the last.
Afterwards, we went for lunch at a local Mexican restaurant.
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Praise for the Community of Christ
Posted by Sappho on March 21st, 2015 filed in Daily Life
When I posted about the Mental Health First Aid workshop that Joel and I attended (and that three other members of our DBSA chapter have now attended, one with us and two at an earlier workshop), I left out one of the most impressive things about that workshop: who showed up. There was one church that sent 19 people, to that Mental Health First Aid workshop. That church is the Community of Christ. When we gave our introductions, the people from Community of Christ (like the rest of us) spoke about their reasons for attending. They came from different congregations. They spoke of different congregational needs. One had an open air church that met in a local park, and attracted many homeless people. Others wanted both to care better for people in their congregations who lived with mental illness, and to work in ministries with people living with mental illness. It was inspiring to see how much commitment this church showed to helping their members fill these needs.
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Mental Health First Aid
Posted by Sappho on March 19th, 2015 filed in Bipolar Disorder, Classes, Lectures, and Conferences
On Tuesday, I took a vacation day from work, so that I could attend a workshop on Mental Health First Aid. I'm copying to my blog an email that I sent to the leader of our DBSA chapter's caregiver group, about the workshop (with personal names obscured, other than my husband's name):
Here's what I can tell you about the workshop. We heard of it from one of our board members, C, who had already gone through the training, and Joel and S and I signed up and attended. We each got a booklet with the course. I will give you mine, after I finish reading it, since Joel and I don't need two copies. The booklet covers depression and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, substance abuse, and eating disorders. The workshop, which is eight hours long, leaves out eating disorders, but covers the others.
The acronym that they use to describe what the teach is ALGEE:
- Assess the risk of suicide or harm.
- Listen non-judgmentally.
- Give reassurance and information.
- Encourage appropriate professional help.
- Encourage self-help and other support strategies.
They discuss the prevalence and symptoms of the various disorders, helpful resources, and how to deal with crises and encourage people to get appropriate help. The format is a combination of lecture, short videos, role play, and quizzes.
Sheets of resources were also available. I took some extra copies for you, which you can copy for people in the caregiver's group.
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How to survive a human apocalypse, and other links
Posted by Sappho on March 18th, 2015 filed in Blogwatch, DNA
How to Survive a Human Attack: A Zombie's Guide to Filling the Emptiness and Moving Forward by K.E. Flann
Hat tip to Jennifer Raff and her Violent Metaphors Facebook feed for the next couple of genomics links.
Survival of the richest? mathbionerd announces her paper A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture, which shows an extreme reduction in the number of males who reproduced, without an accompanying reduction in the number of females, at about the time of the rise of agriculture. (Here's Dienekes Pontikos blogging on the same study.)
Genetics: No evidence of role in racial mortality gap. A new study from McGill University fails to find a genetic basis for differences between blacks and whites in cardiovascular disease.
"After nearly a decade of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), no assessment had yet been made of their contribution toward an explanation of the most prominent racial health disparities observed at the population level," says Jay Kaufman, of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health in the Faculty of Medicine.
Kaufman and colleagues assessed the reported associations from published genomic studies, "The fact that our results show so little stable evidence of genetic explanations for racial disparities in CVD could be attributed to a general failure of GWAS to explain observed disease phenotypes," adds Kaufman.
(Here I'll note, as an aside, that I really don't have any prior commitment to expecting this sort of study to come out one way or the other. I'm suspicious, of course, of theories about genetic racial differences in which all the racial differences amount to the speaker coming from the race with all the morally superior impulses. But I could easily imagine that we might, say, live in the hypothetical world where there is real genetic variation between different geographic populations in susceptibility to diabetes, given a particular diet, because different geographical populations had different things available to eat, and in turn faced different natural selection related to how they metabolized those different things available to eat. And I could equally easily imagine that we'd live in a hypothetical world where there are no such population level genetic differences, GWAS studies show that fact, and differences in diabetes incidence in different ethnic groups instead turn out to be pinned to social and income inequalities, difference exposure to unhealthy food, etc. It's all a matter of what studies actually show. Apparently this one points to ethnic differences in cardiovascular health being environmental rather than genetic.)
And another genetic study link, that I didn't get from Jennifer Raff (though it's always possible she had it in one of her feeds as well and I missed it): Dienekes points to a study of DNA of 17th century African slaves from the Caribbean.
Also, DNA nanobots destroy leukemia (which makes me think of Borg technology, but in a good way).
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The Best Policy
Posted by WiredSisters on March 16th, 2015 filed in Uncategorized
Ben Franklin said it, but we don't pay much attention to it. "Honesty is the best policy." Most people think it just means being honest is better than being dishonest. I suspect strongly, though I have not yet been able to document it, that he was actually using "policy" in an older sense, meaning something closer to "politics" or to "shrewd maneuvers." In which case he was actually telling us that telling the truth could sometimes be the smartest thing to do. Anyway, these days we tend to run into the word in an entirely different context that has absolutely nothing to do with honesty.
Most of us have had the experience of dealing with some public or private bureaucracy, asking one of its functionaries for something perfectly reasonable–a receipt, for instance, or a list of phone numbers–and being told, "We never do that. We have a policy." The person making the request is apparently expected by most bureaucrats to react to the word "policy" by collapsing into a pliable pile of pusillanimity, like a vampire in sunlight. All too many of us do. There is something icily intimidating about the word "policy," and the power we attribute to anyone who claims to have one.
But there is no reason to afford such deference to the word. Policy means merely "a definite course or method of action selected to guide and determine present and future decisions." The opposite of "policy" is making it up as you go along, complete adhocracy. Or, as Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine," the telephone dragon lady, put it when giving a customer a hard time, "Don't take it personally; we screw everybody." So anybody can have a policy. You can develop a policy. For instance, when confronted with bureaucratic jackassitude, you can ask to speak to the supervisor of the jackass in question, and proceed up the chain of command as high as necessary to get satisfaction. Or you can write a letter to the elected official or corporate executive ultimately responsible for the bureaucrat's area, and name names. Whichever modus operandi you choose to adopt, it is your policy. Telling the jackass in question about your policy may cause him to cave in. It's always worth a try.
Red Emma
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Preparing for my third Toastmasters speech
Posted by Sappho on March 12th, 2015 filed in Daily Life
I'm planning to do my third Toastmasters speech on the European sovereign debt crisis. If you have questions about the EU debt crisis, and a speaker has only five to seven minutes to answer those questions, what questions would you want answered?
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Lent, sin, and other links
Posted by Sappho on March 9th, 2015 filed in Blogwatch, Theology
A lovely sermon on the meaning of Lent, the nature of sin, and John Scalzi's book Redshirts. (Hat tip, John Scalzi.)
Many people wrote last week about the Justice Department's findings on the Ferguson police department, but I found Ta-Nehisi Coates particularly interesting.
The Justice Department conducted two investigations—one looking into the shooting of Michael Brown, and another into the Ferguson Police Department. The first report made clear that there was no prosecutable case against one individual officer. The second report made clear that there was a damning case to be made against the system in which that officer operated: …
Also, I always love TNC's posts about learning French, like this one about getting better at difficult things.
Bruce Schneier on North Korea, the Sony Pictures breach, Attack Attribution and Cyber Conflict.
Brian Krebs on phishers using default passwords to hack routers. Change your router's password from the default!
And, via my old college friend Andrew on Facebook, Islamic Holdem'
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Some links that I have already posted on Facebook, and some that I haven't
Posted by Sappho on March 2nd, 2015 filed in Blogwatch
Natalia Antonova writes that Russians' faith in Putin may not be shaken by Nemtsov's barbaric death.
Johan Maurer: Choose curiosity
Jennifer Raff's links for Darwin Day.
How to sabotage encryption software (and not get caught).
An interesting history of in loco parentis, by Philip Lee of Harvard University.
Greek historical records from the state archives.
Echidne of the Snakes on To Praise Saunas. Or Not?
Andrew Shields on Voltaire misattributions
Keith Gatling on Slow Down Your Email
Kitty Cooper on Triangulation: Proving a Common Ancestor.
Aled Jones sings a duet with his younger self: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.
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Scattered Thoughts on Nerds and Feminism
Posted by Sappho on February 24th, 2015 filed in Feminism, Sexuality
Belle Waring, at Crooked Timber, has a post on Male Nerds and Feminism, which inspired a long comment thread with some interesting comments. I find that I have more to say than a comment, and, since I'm a female nerd and feminist, I'm making my own topic "nerds and feminism" rather than just "male nerds and feminism," since part of my reaction is to compare male and female nerd experiences. Anyway, in no particular order, my reactions to the discussion.
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Things the Truman Show Missed
Posted by WiredSisters on February 23rd, 2015 filed in Fiction, History, Marriage, Memory, Moral Philosophy, TV
("The Last of Life for which The First Was Made" part I)
By now anybody with the remotest degree of interest in British soaps has read everybody's articles, reviews, and posts about the latest episode of Downton Abbey. Most of the authors, if they are not getting paid to review such things, start out by referring to it as a guilty pleasure, usually right up there with chocolate and caffeine. I prefer to save my guilt for places where it can accomplish something, so I just view DA as a harmless and sometimes interesting frivolity. This week, it also presented an interesting philosophical wrinkle. The aristocratic curmudgeon everybody loves to hate has redeemed himself this week in several different ways all at once. We find ourselves becoming sort of fond of him. One of the minor-league villains below stairs has also engaged in a bit of skullduggery for the greater good this week. A female character who started out as the local equivalent of a Valley Girl and a flibbertigibbet has become a serious family member and a loving wife. Is this the coming of the Peaceable Kingdom?
Well, no, of course not. It's easy enough for us to recognize that this is simply a case of writers either mellowing toward their characters, or being replaced by more mellow writers. It happens all the time in TV dramas. It certainly happened all the time in ER, where Dr. Kerry Weaver started out as a workaholic spinster-in-waiting, then became an "out" lesbian, and ended up in a couple of torrid heterosexual relationships. In her case, the writers all seemed to have been conspiring to stick her character with whatever seemed like the most interesting thing a woman might be doing at the moment, no matter how inconsistent it might be with what she had done last month.
But in real life—well, as a divorce lawyer, I am always being surprised by my former clients. It generally takes them longer to do the one-eighty, because real life moves more slowly than most TV prime-time dramas these days (as distinguished from daytime soaps, in which reprises of the previous episode and previews of the next installment can take up as much as half of the non-commercial time.) But the results, two years or so after the divorce, can be almost as startling. A woman who saw her husband as physically, emotionally, and financially abusive may now consider the same man (as her "ex") her best friend. A woman who believed her husband was unfit to have custody of or even unsupervised visitation with their child while the custody issue was pending in court may leave the kid with him all the time, without blinking an eye, now that they are safely split. Was she exaggerating in the first place? Has he done a one-eighty in the meantime? A bit of both?
For that matter, there are the politicians. Harry Truman (speaking of the Truman Show, no relation) was the object of condescension and ridicule while in office, and two generations later came to be viewed as one of our best presidents. Richard M. Nixon, while in office, was almost universally viewed as an ultra-conservative crook. As an ex-president, he lost little time becoming an elder statesman, a prudent moderate, and a competent pianist. Jimmy Carter, viewed while in office as one of the worst presidents we have ever had, is now perilously close to canonization. If Obama has any perspective on the matter, he is probably looking forward eagerly to spending the rest of his post-2017 life as the Sage of Honolulu (or, I suppose, Hyde Park. But if I had the chance to retire in comfort to Hawaii, I certainly wouldn't stay in Chicago.)
No, I find myself concluding. They have all gotten themselves better writers. Bloody well about time. American lives not only have second acts, the second acts are usually a lot better than the first. We, or at least our writers, really can learn from experience—we just don't get to do it while we're in a position to make (or avoid making) the mistakes in the first place. Consider this the first installment of a meditation on the benefits of aging.
Jane Grey
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Muriel Badger, RIP
Posted by Sappho on February 22nd, 2015 filed in RIP
Thou only art immortal, the creator and maker of mankind;
and we are mortal, formed of the earth, and unto earth shall
we return. For so thou didst ordain when thou createdst me,
saying, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
we go down to the dust; yet even at the grave we make
our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
My great-aunt, Muriel Gooden Badger, died on Thanksgiving of last year. But it wasn't till yesterday that we gathered in the chapel of St. Mark's Church, in Glendale, for her funeral. The delay had just one reason. One of Aunt Muriel's grandsons was stationed with the army in Germany, and due soon to be switched to a post in the US, and so the funeral was held off until he would be back in the US to attend.
As I listened to the words of the Episcopal funeral service, as quoted above, I reflected that the part about how "even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia" reminded me of the last verse of the joyful ending version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
It feels fitting to me that similar sentiments come from a Jewish folk singer and the Episcopal prayerbook.
Aunt Muriel, though, was of a generation whose musical taste was formed before Leonard Cohen, and learned different poetry. The King James versions of the prayers in her memorial, nearly out of use now in favor of modern versions, suited her. So did the small size of the funeral. Her daughter was there, and her three grandsons, and several of us making up the nephew/niece contingent from her side of the family (me, my husband, Dick, and Tom), and one nephew, with his wife, from her husband's side, and several people I didn't know. I think it would have suited her. When my grandmother had her hundredth birthday party, she arranged to have a large room at the retirement home for a celebration, and, along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren from all over the country, gathered as many friends as she could from the retirement home. When Aunt Muriel had her hundredth birthday party, she pulled together a couple of small tables, in the regular lunch room, of family and friends.
Aunt Muriel was my grandmother's youngest sister, and the last of her generation to die. She lived to the age of 103. Diana Egly said, the other day, that crotchety old ladies live longer than sweet ones, but, if that's true, Aunt Muriel was the exception that tests the rule. She was the sweetest, gentlest, and most modest person in her family; if I were to assign them characters from Little Women, she would be Beth. She was also a devoted mother to her one daughter, my cousin Ann Badger Quinn (and Ann, in turn, was as devoted a daughter as any mother could wish for, as Muriel became old and frail). Her mind stayed sharp almost to the very end (and certainly well past her hundredth birthday), though her eyesight grew dim, and her voice was soft.
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The Greek deal
Posted by Sappho on February 22nd, 2015 filed in Greek News
I've been reading Greek and German news anxiously, and then Friday, of course, we all heard that there was a deal, for four months anyway. It was, on the one hand, a considerable climb down for Syriza, which is till stuck with austerity proposals that it had campaigned against, but, on the other time, buys time for Syriza to prepare and try to sell proposals for a changed arrangement that emphasizes growth more, and brings with it some needed breathing room, for 2015 anyway, on the demand that Greece increase its primary surplus (not so realistic for a country with 25% unemployment). Today, Greece prepared its reform proposals for approval on Monday. According to Kathimerini,
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said the reform promises would be ready on Sunday and submitted to Greece's EU and IMF partners in good time. «We are very confident that the list is going to be approved by the institutions and therefore we are embarking upon a new phase of stabilisation and growth,» he told reporters late on Saturday.
A government official said the reforms would include a crackdown on tax evasion and corruption.
The Brussels deal opens the possibility of lowering a target for the Greek primary budget surplus, which excludes debt repayments, freeing up some funds to help ease the effects of 25 percent unemployment and pension cuts. It also avoids some language which has inflamed many Greeks, angered by four years of austerity demanded by foreign creditors.
Nevertheless, Kathimerini is reporting that the deal rankled some in the left portion of Syriza.
Rather than write a separate blog post on the deal, I'm going to pass on a concatenated version of some of the Facebook posts (and associated links) that I wrote on Friday.
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Carl Djerassi, RIP
Posted by Sappho on February 12th, 2015 filed in RIP
Carl Djerassi, Stanford professor and father of the birth control pill, has died at the age of 91.
"Carl Djerassi is probably the greatest chemist our department ever had," said Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford. "I know of no person in the world who combined the mastery of science with literary talent as Carl Djerassi. He also is the only person, to my knowledge, to receive from President Nixon the National Medal of Science and to be named on Nixon's blacklist in the same year."
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On political correctness
Posted by Sappho on February 12th, 2015 filed in News and Commentary
I first heard the word "political correctness" back when I was in college, in the late 70s or early 80s. At the time, the word had a particular meaning, that has long since been lost. It was a word that campus activists on the left applied to themselves, humorously, as a reminder not to take political orthodoxy too seriously.
It was a handy word, for we can all use reminders not to take ourselves too seriously. Some years after I graduated, though, I think in the late 80s, that old meaning of "politically correct" got lost, never to be recovered. In its place was a word applied by the right (and occasionally by the center-left) to the left, and specifically to left wing identity politics, as a way of signifying that the Left is intolerant in a way that makes it very different from the Right. These things are politically correct: Brendan Eich's resignation from Mozilla as a consequence of his support for Proposition 8, uninviting Ayaan Hirsi Ali as commencement speaker, protesting Bill Maher's appearance as commencement speaker. These things are not politically correct: cries of indignation about Obama's remarks at the prayer breakfast about the Crusades, boycotting the Dixie Chicks for their lack of patriotism, complaints that a store's "Happy Holidays" greeting is part of a "War on Christmas," and denunciations of Bill de Blasio, as having put a target on police officers in NYC by expressing sympathy with people protesting the death of Eric Garner.
It might be worthwhile having a word, as short and succinct as "PC," for all of the politics of indignation, whether from the right or from the left, and perhaps whether justified or not, a word that means "responding to something by marking the boundary of your outrage, rather than by counting it as worth reasoned rebuttal." But I don't see it as particularly worthwhile to have such a word that applies only to identity politics of the Left.
But I'd take back the old, humorous word, with its caution about self-importance, if I could.
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Looking for Someone Who Looks Like Me
Posted by WiredSisters on February 9th, 2015 filed in Democracy, History, Moral Philosophy, Race, TV
When I was growing up in the 1950s in South Florida, I felt as if I was living in the vestibule of the universe. The books I read, the movies and occasional TV shows I watched, were all set in a place that had bright reddish leaves in autumn and snow in winter and deep dark forests most of the year. The people all ran around outdoors and tanned and their hair curled (while I was so pale that I could sunburn in an hour under the unshaded Florida sun, and my hair was completely straight. I squinted in the sunshine, and avoided it as much as I could, which wasn't much because there was no shade anywhere outdoors.) Their parents told their secrets in very low-volume English. The girls wore white organdy dresses and black patent leather Mary Jane shoes. Their world didn't look like my world and they didn't look like me.
I couldn't even figure out why that was, because I was officially Caucasian, and pale enough and blonde enough for nobody to doubt that. I wasn't exactly any exotic religion, although many of the Southern locals thought being Catholic was still kind of odd, and we Catholic kids were the ones who, when our public-school teacher led us in the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of the day (remember, this was the 1950s) stopped before "For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever and ever," and went straight to "Amen," which we pronounced "Aye-men" rather than "Ah-men" like the other kids. We were the ones who spent the ten-minute mandatory Bible reading that followed it worrying that we were maybe committing some kind of sin because the Bible in question was the King James [Protestant] version, rather than the Douai version that was okay for Catholics. We were the ones who had to skip school on the "Holy Days of Obligation," weird festivals like the Immaculate Conception and the Ascension that none of our classmates celebrated and that most of them couldn't even spell.
My family, on both sides, was an odd mix of New England and Hispanic. Floridians, back then, were either Southerners or transplanted New Yorkers, impeccably Anglophone either way. The Hispanic influx didn't start until Castro took over Cuba in 1960. In the meantime, our parish churches and parochial schools were mostly run by first-generation Irish immigrants who viewed Florida as mission territory, since (so far as they knew) we were part of the American South and mostly dominated by Baptists.
Was my family poor? Was that the reason I never had a white organdy dress and black patent-leather Mary Janes? I never really knew. All I knew was that my mind lived in a world far away from the south Florida of the '50s where the flora were mostly palm trees that cast almost no shade, and the fauna were alligators and land crabs. Nobody shot films or TV shows in Florida back then. So I never expected to be taught, or entertained, or ministered to, by people who looked or talked or thought like me. I never expected to see my world in books or on the screen. Even after I moved north and went to college and graduate school and got married and became Jewish, it took me a while even to imagine that being surrounded and acculturated by people who looked like me was a worthy thing to wish for, much less to have. I was several different kinds of outsider, and wanting not to be was just the coward's way out.
So now, perhaps as some sort of karmic justice, I live on the South Side of Chicago, in the only seriously integrated neighborhood within 15 miles in any direction. We not only get bright leaves in autumn, and amazingly thick green flora in spring and summer, but snow (oy gott do we have snow!) in winter.
And, when staying out of the cold and listening to Public Radio, I keep hearing from people who want to be entertained, and taught, and politically represented by people who look like them. Of course, I've never had a president who looked like me, although both Clinton and Warren kind of do, and they're both possibilities. I've never been represented in Congress by anybody who looked like me, although it could certainly happen sometime during my life.
Is that what I really want? After all, Phyllis Schlafly not only looks like me (I'm using this phrase as short-hand for female, post-middle-aged, and blonde) but graduated from my alma mater, but I have never longed to have her represent me. I don't even expect to be represented by somebody who thinks like me (though it would be nice to have a representative who thinks, period.) Or somebody whose "identity" closely resembles mine ("identity" is a dreadful concept, but for want of something more precise, I'll go with it)—female, Jewish, over 60, socialist-pacifist-anarchist, overeducated, underpaid, musical, crafty, widowed, bisexual, whatever. That's just too much to ask of any political candidate. What I really want is somebody who can be trusted to represent my political and economic interests. Who cares what (or who) they look like? When are we going to start caring about what's behind the face?
Of course, it's at least as easy for a politician to fake a personality, and a set of political positions and convictions, as to fake a face. The only thing people in my political corner have going for us is that, these days, liberals have acquired such a bad reputation that nobody is likely to fake being one, any more than a woman would dye her hair barf-green or puce. At most, they will fake being whatever qualifies as "moderate" these days, as Newt Gingrich did during his first 24 hours as Speaker of the House. One can hope that the Tea-Partiers are faking being radcons for some odd reason and are really liberals behind the mask, but it seems unlikely.
So anyway, many of us probably live in worlds different from what we see or hear on the media, and spend much of our time in worlds shaped by people who don't look like us. We need to stop pining for resemblances that are not only rare but useless, and start looking for the real likenesses, of mind and soul, preferably the ones least likely to be faked.
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Reply to a radical niece and a conservative cousin on Syriza and #ekloges2015
Posted by Sappho on February 1st, 2015 filed in Greek News
Since last week, when the rise in the polls that Syriza began years ago finally led to an actual Syriza government in Greece, I've been thinking about how I could pull my thoughts together for a blog post with my thoughts on a Syriza government. Finally I decided, hey, this is a blog, so posts don't have to be polished. Rather that trying to think of the perfect post, I'll simply pass on some replies I already made, one to a niece who had shared a link to someone thrilled about the triumph of anti-capitalist forces in Greece, and asked my opinion, and the others to a cousin who shared with me a column expressing alarm at the victory of a party whose name translates to "Coalition of the Radical Left," and asking my opinion. And after that I'll share some links to articles that I found interesting, speculating on whether a deal between Tsipras and the EU is possible, and, if so, what such a deal might look like. I'll put all of this below the fold. (The messages from my niece and my cousin are left out, since I didn't ask to share their thoughts, but I don't need them to share my own thoughts.) The niece and cousin are both American; the Greek side of my family may have their own opinions, and maybe even corrections to any mistaken impressions I've formed from afar.
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Grading the Cops
Posted by WiredSisters on January 28th, 2015 filed in Bipolar Disorder, Law, Race, Uncategorized
This morning as I got dressed, I chanced to hear a public radio panel on our current mayor's performance on the crime and public safety front, particularly on how the police were doing during his administration. This is something I pay careful attention to, given that I handle occasional criminal cases, and that even some of my civil cases have something to do with the police. And of course, I live here and have plenty of opportunity to observe police behavior in the ordinary course of being a citizen of Chicago.
This is the Ferguson era, of course. We're all paying more attention than we formerly did to police behavior in its various contexts. But I've seen a few things that didn't make it into the news and need some attention.
First of all, there is how the police deal with mentally ill people on the street (not necessarily street people.) About a year and a half ago (during the present mayor's administration), I was riding my usual bus downtown in the morning, and I started hearing behind me an odd assortment of grunts and growls. That stopped for a little while, and then started up again. Then the grunts and growls changed into a loud monolog about a prescription having run out. By now, everybody else on the bus was looking around. Finally we saw, just beginning to stand up, a very tall young African-American man. He began thrashing around, hitting windows and empty seats. The driver (a rather young African-American woman) very sensibly stopped the bus at the next stop and told us all to get off. She (and a couple of passengers) called the police, and waited for them while the young man broke a bunch of windows and mirrors inside the bus (presumably racking up a considerable account of seven-year periods of bad luck.) The police came, a little later than I would have liked, and went onto the bus. By this time the young man was in the driver's seat trying to start the engine. Fortunately the driver had had the presence of mind to take the keys with her.
I was surprised that the police were not yelling at the young man, just telling him firmly to get off the bus, which he finally did. Then they told him to sit on the ground and put his hands behind his head. He did that, too, and finally collapsed, crying, as if all the air had been let out of him. The police took him away, and we all got back on the bus.
Nobody had been shot, or even shot at. Nobody had been yelled at. Nobody was hurt. The police had done exactly the right thing, and it had worked. After all the news stories I had heard over the years about just such situations turning into killings, I was utterly amazed. I have a client with a son about the same age, coloration, physical build, and his own mental health problems, and she has nightmares about this kind of thing ending badly, because that's what we hear on the news, both in the Chicago area and elsewhere in the country. So that's report #1.
On the other hand, I have a client (details slightly altered for the sake of confidentiality), who, in the course of driving his friends out of a messy and illegal situation, got chased by the cops and ultimately shot four times while being ordered out of the car. Fortunately, he not only survived, but will suffer only minimal long-term effects from the shooting. But of course, in order to justify having shot him, the police had to claim they saw him pull a gun as he got out of the car. All the evidence points to another passenger (in the back seat, no less) being the one with the gun. The case was ultimately resolved with a plea bargain, because our client didn't want to go to trial and was offered a deal too good (from his point of view) to refuse. But it happened only a couple of months before Ferguson, and I was kind of looking forward to trying the case, under the circumstances. That's report #2.
Then there's another one of my clients who is trying to get an order of protection against a former romantic partner, the mother of his son, for yanking the kid out of the back of his car while the car was still in gear. The problem is that my client is African-American and male, and the lady is neither. We went through one round of procedures after another in pursuit of what should have been a pretty easy case. I mean, way back when, I helped write the Domestic Violence Act. And going through the procedures now, I felt a bit like Jesus Christ going through the Vatican. This was nothing like what I had in mind back then. We had to deal with two different police districts (because the parties lived in different neighborhoods), and got jacked around in some extremely unorthodox ways. I've been handling domestic violence cases for thirty-odd years and never encountered a cluster like this. This process is still going on. But I have concluded that the Chicago police simply don't know how to handle a case which cannot be resolved by arresting the first available African-American male. That's report #3.
I came to this conclusion partly because of a situation that Mr. Wired and I encountered I guess about five years ago now, well before the current mayor took office. We went out for dinner together and then stopped off for gas. In the gas station, we started getting harassed by two or three young white punks. Ultimately they grabbed my husband's cane and hit him with it. I managed to get their license plate number before they drove off, and persuaded a cop friend of mine (yes, some of my best friends are cops) to run it through the system to get the owner's name and address. Note that Mr. Wired, at that time, was both a senior citizen and visibly disabled (I mean, that's why he had the cane.) Which, under Illinois law, makes the encounter with the young men two kinds of hate crime, two kinds of aggravated battery, and therefore two felonies. But we spent the next six months trying to get the culprits arrested and into court. It didn't help that one of them was the son of a retired cop in a nearby suburb. One of the kids finally got supervision, which is the least onerous form of probation. Again, I think the reason the Chicago police were so clueless was that the crime could not be resolved by arresting the first available African-American male. That's report #4, which of course has nothing to do with the current mayor, but a lot to do with the Chicago police department in general.
I don't know if victims of non-Black criminals have the same problem getting redress from the law enforcement system elsewhere. Not being able to get one's assailant arrested is not the sort of thing that normally gets into the news or the crime statistics (unless, now that I think of it, the assailant is not only the wrong color but happens to be related to the mayor, as happened in another Chicago case at about the same time that actually made its way into federal court.) But it is yet another side of the Ferguson story, in which crime victims are victimized yet again by the law enforcement system, for racial reasons. If you are the victim of a crime, you are most likely to get treated courteously and effectively by the police if your assailant was the right color and gender. If s/he wasn't, nobody will ever hear about the case again, including, probably, the assailant.
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Equality, Sufficiency, or Modest-But-Adequacy?
Posted by WiredSisters on January 27th, 2015 filed in Democracy, Economics, History, Moral Philosophy, Work
For the last few years, we've been hearing a hair-raising lot about income inequality. I say "hair-raising" because the figures really are eye-popping. "The top 1% [of the US population] captured an estimated 95% of the income growth during the 2009-2012 recovery period, with their pre-tax incomes growing 31.4% adjusted for inflation while the pre-tax incomes of the bottom 99% grew 0.4%. By 2012, the top 10% (top decile) had a 50.4% share of the pre-tax income, the highest level since 1917." (Wikipedia article on income inequality.) The average CEO makes 204 times as much per hour as the average worker in his corporation. (That's the Business Section of the Huffington Post. I've seen other estimates in the four figures.)
Conservatives rationalize this concern as "the politics of envy." Relative poverty we will always have with us, they say, unless of course you want to abolish all income differentials and turn the most productive economy in the history of the world into a communist labor camp. Everybody always wants more. More than what they have right now, more than their next-door neighbor, more than the boss, just plain more. That's original sin. "The politics of greed."
Well, in the first place, greed is as American as apple pie. The entire advertising/ marketing industry is nothing but a machine for creating greed, for making people want more. "Greed is good," says the invincibly alliterative Gordon Gecko. As long as advertising pops up everywhere there are eyeballs to see it, whether or not the eyeballs come connected to a wallet that can afford the goods being advertised, it ill behooves the marketeers to bad-mouth the greed they have spent millions to create.
And, in the second place, despite the best efforts of the marketers, most non-rich people really don't envy the rich. They really don't want an inchoate more-ness. What most non-rich people really want isn't "more"—it's enough.
So okay, what is enough, in twenty-first century America? Presumably, it's not what "enough" was a century ago (indoor plumbing and a kitchen somewhere in the building.) It's not what "enough" would be in twenty-first century Haiti. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has tried to define it, and periodically re-define it, in terms of a hypothetical "market basket" of basic stuff (three times the "ordinary" budget for food.) The conservatives say the BLS isn't taking governmental "transfer payments" into account, so they define too many people as lacking the resources to buy the "basket." The liberals say the fundamental premise of the BLS "market basket" is flawed—nobody in the US spends 1/3 of their income on food any more. Three times what the average family does spend on food these days is a lot less than they need to survive. Food is cheaper than it was in 1960. So is clothing. But the average family spends considerably more on housing and transportation than it did in 1960, when Mollie Orshansky formulated her algorithm for calculating poverty. And it spends lots of money on things that barely existed back then, like child care and student loans (not to mention school activity fees, health insurance premiums, bottled water and cable TV.)
So does that mean the standard of living of the average American has improved since 1960? Or just the cost of living? It's probably a bit of both. A lot of things were free, or nearly free, in 1960, that cost a fair amount now, like visits to museums. And water (many eateries and some school and workplace cafeterias don't have water fountains any more, just bottled water that costs upwards of a dollar a bottle. One of the reasons we are drinking so many more "sugary drinks" now than we used to is that we figure, not unreasonably, that if we're going to pay a dollar a bottle for something to drink, it should be something tastier than water.) A lot of people in 1960, including the Wired Sisters, for a while, didn't own phones. They figured they could use pay phones in a pinch. Pay phones? Television used to be more or less free, once you bought your set. Hoo hah, as my mother-in-law used to say. So much for the cost of living.
On the other hand, almost nobody I know shares kitchen or bathroom facilities with anybody they aren't related to or sleeping with. A lot more people drive to work rather than taking the bus. (I'm not altogether sure that's an improvement in the standard of living, but I think a lot of people thought so back when they made the switch, and up until fairly recently when driving became a lot more expensive and a lot less enjoyable.) Those are some of the major improvements in the standard of living. The problem is that to some extent, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy or a self-propelling spiral. If everybody who really counts is driving a car, drinking bottled water and owns a cell phone, public transportation, water fountains, and pay phones will disappear, and then even people who can't afford cars, bottled water, and cell phones will have to buy them. Thus the standard of living ends up determining the cost of living.
And then there's the whole "Atlas Shrugged" thing—one of the characters in Ayn Rand's infamous novel talks about a sort of commune/work collective he used to belong to. Everybody got paid the same unless they could demonstrate that they needed more than that for some good reason. So if somebody's kid got sick or their house burned down or whatever, on top of coping with that particular emergency, they had to go before the collective and tell them why they needed more money, and how much more money and so on. Rand made it sound like the ultimate in humiliation, the financial equivalent of a strip search. If they had any gumption, Rand seemed to imply, they'd turn pirate upon the salt sea instead. (I'm hearing the Child ballad "Henry Martin" going through my head—"there once were three brothers in merry Scotland…and they did cast lots to see which one should turn robber upon the salt sea, for to maintain his two brothers and he…") Or deal drugs, maybe? The ultimate in free enterprise–a willing seller meeting the demand of a willing buyer?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has a bunch of economic models, one for poverty, one for "modest-but-adequate," and one for middle class. The poverty budget, last I heard, did not include home ownership, college education for the kids, retirement saving, or health insurance on the private market (as opposed to Medicaid or employer-provided health insurance.) I don't think it provided life insurance. It did provide for burial insurance. I think it included one car for a family with two adults. The "modest-but-adequate" budget was somewhat more accommodating.
So forget the Bureau of Labor Statistics for a minute, and look at the culture instead. What constituted the "American Dream" in the 1950s and 1960s? Presumably that was what we meant by "middle class." It included home ownership, one car, college for the kids (at least the boys), a paid vacation away from home every year, retirement savings and pension plan (over and above Social Security.) At the time, this was what a man without a college degree could provide his family, while his wife stayed home with the kids. Today, this is unimaginable.
So what would sufficiency look like today?Food, clothing, housing, transportation, education and job training, child care, health care, security, and what the Italians would call "bella figura." Let's break that down:
- food these days needs to include food eaten away from home;
- clothing is cheap and relatively easy to provide;
- housing may not need to involve home ownership, since more middle-class people are renting these days, and that trend may continue for a while, Until the recent financial crash, the major net advantage of home ownership was as a program of forced saving for retirement. When real estate values tanked, we all got more skeptical about that. Real estate values are inching up again, but the younger generation, being once burned, is twice shy.
- education and job training for all family members
- transportation may be manageable these days with slightly less than one car per driving-age person, since more people are choosing not to own cars and that trend too may continue
- child care
- health care
- savings (a lot more than we have been in the habit of putting aside lately)
- security (of income and/or employment—what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "freedom from fear.")
- "bella figura"—feeling like, and looking like, an unstigmatized middle-class family
Where these things are to come from is an open question. In the 1950s and 1960s, they were mostly supplied by the employer. But employers are no longer willing to provide health insurance that actually covers everything, without co-pays, deductibles, and employee contribution to premiums. It's just too expensive. They are no longer willing to provide defined-benefit retirement pensions, in which the employer bears the risk of bad investments; now almost all pensions are defined-contribution, in which the risk is transferred to the employee. They for sure don't want to provide "security," if by that we mean going to work on Monday knowing that, barring massive screwups on somebody's part, they would be going to the same workplace on Friday. In fact, most employers don't like having employees, much less providing them with fringe benefits, job security, and adequate pay. They prefer "independent contractors," and subcontracted workers from contracted companies, for all but the highest-level jobs.
But conservatives also don't like the idea of the government paying for health care, or retirement, or education, or transportation, or much of anything else that benefits non-rich people. Those benefits create a "culture of dependency," universally decried as destructive to character. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas famously bad-mouthed his sister because "She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check. That`s how dependent she is. What`s worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check too. They have no motivation for doing better or getting out of that situation." (For a more fact-consistent version of the story, see http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-07-24/news/9103220246_1_welfare-dependency-emma-mae-martin-brother-attended-law-school) His sister, who is obviously a much nicer person than he is, and also a much nicer person than I am, does not hold this against him. Quite aside from the Anita Hill matter, I would cross the street to avoid shaking hands with him, purely on the basis of his lying about his sister to make a political/philosophical point. But I digress.
Regardless of the source, is this sufficiency package too much for ordinary working people to ask? Apparently many conservatives think so. What are their arguments against it? What are their real reasons for opposing it? What do they see as the real social and economic costs of this kind of sufficiency?
One of them, judging from their dislike of union, civil service, and tenure, which prevent a worker being fired unless the employer can prove just cause, is that they think employees work well only under the threat of arbitrary termination. Another is that unintimidated workers are more likely to ask for raises and improvements in working conditions.
Another ground for conservative disapproval is the inherent unworthiness of the recipients of such benefits. The idea of a plumber, a man [sic] who works with his [sic] hands, getting paid more than a teacher outraged a lot of conservatives back in the '50s and '60s. (Although these days, when teachers are unionized, most conservatives don't like the idea of a teacher getting paid as much as a plumber. Some days you can't win for losing.) The people on the bottom rung of the employment ladder, such as retail and fast-food workers, are there because they didn't stay in school, or because they got pregnant too young and out of wedlock, or didn't move out of a bad neighborhood, or crossed the border without a visa. They made, in short, "bad choices," (most notably their choice of parents), and now they are getting their just deserts. They are the people for whom the minimum wage is designed (and, by design, not indexed to the cost of living.)
Getting back to the original point, I find the discussion of income inequality to be a distraction. It makes populists look like a bunch of greedheads for wanting as much as Donald Trump has, when in fact most of them just want as much as their own grandfathers (who were almost certainly not Donald Trump) had. And it makes the conservatives look like the noble aristocrats of Downton Abbey who just want to maintain the status quo (what their grandfathers had), when in fact many of them want to become the upper-upper class of some Third World country, with the peasants groveling around them. Why can't we get back to talking about enough?
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