Displaying 181 To 210 Of 213 Comments I saw the previews on Friday afternoon (at the opening for “Rango” which was “somewhat-good-odd”, but not as “good-odd” as, say, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”.) My fingers are crossed that my seven year old will have forgotten about it by April. ;0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 8, 2011 @ 9:28 am Oh, dear, ghsts: I don’t pay for viewing it online…and I can’t imagine it’s free in some places, but not others. Perhaps you could view it from the library online or in hard copy there? The author is Adam Liptak, the title as indicated in my first comment box, today’s date. (I would cut and paste to publically accessible file space, but that might violate copyright law.) The facts are easily gleaned from the title along with Cher’s response; otherwise, here is the impt. legal piece: “The Supreme Court is likely to decide this month whether to hear Mr. Florence’s case against officials in New Jersey over the searches, and there is reason to think it will. The federal courts of appeal are divided over whether blanket policies requiring jailhouse strip-searches of people arrested for minor offenses violate the Fourth Amendment. Eight courts have ruled that such searches are proper only if there is a reasonable suspicion that the arrested person has weapons or contraband. The more recent trend, from appeals courts in Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia, is to allow searches no matter how minor the charge. Some potential examples cited by dissenting judges in those cases: violating a leash law, driving without a license, failing to pay child support. Although the judges in the majority in Mr. Florence’s case, the one heard in Philadelphia, said they had been presented with no evidence that the searches were needed, they nonetheless ruled that they would not second-guess corrections officials who said they feared that people like Mr. Florence would smuggle contraband into their jails. The most pertinent Supreme Court decision, Bell v. Wolfish, was decided by a 5-to-4 vote in 1979. It allowed strip-searches of people held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York after “contact visits” with outsiders. On the one hand, such visits are planned and may provide opportunities for smuggling contraband in a way that unanticipated arrests do not. On the other, as Judge Marvin E. Frankel of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote in the case in 1977, contact visits take place in front of guards. ‘The secreting of objects in rectal or genital areas becomes in this situation an imposing challenge to nerves and agility,’ Judge Frankel wrote.” Cheers & happy studying!! :0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 7, 2011 @ 11:37 am I hear you, Cher, on all of the above. (The NAACP seems to be in “sleep” mode.) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 7, 2011 @ 11:29 am (…*v* “ET”. ;0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 7, 2011 @ 9:43 am No Crime, but an Arrest and Two Strip-Searches (NYT) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08bar.html?_r=1&hp » Posted By Redemption Song On March 7, 2011 @ 9:40 am Greetings AdLib, I’m sure you already know this, but just reminder to all generally: Quintan Wiktorowicz recently asserted that, on his research, devout Muslims are less likely to become radicalized, thus offering a counter to the fear mongers who are against mosques generally: http://freethoughtmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011/01/devout-muslims-are-least-likely-to-be.html (Full disclosure: Although I’m certainly not anti-religion, I am against conservative religous practices generally, esp. if misogynist (which they all seem pretty much to be ;0). –RS) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 7, 2011 @ 1:49 am This is excellent, Truth. (If possible, please, please post this again closer to the date as a reminder so that as many of us as possible will join in.) (Well, forgetful folks like yours truly, anyway. ;0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 7, 2011 @ 1:30 am No problems as I’ve made no commitments myself; I only say that it’s interesting. Most definitely. » Posted By Redemption Song On March 6, 2011 @ 9:48 am I guess my point below is that Moore hasn’t been consistently pro-labor in my experience. (Disclosure: I’m not exactly “rah-rah” simply because someone is a self professed progressive…I find that much of life’s fodder consist of varying degrees of grey.) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 6, 2011 @ 9:46 am Moore is a mixed-bag. (I say this as a Michigander having listened to his spiel on the auto-industry and workers, the latter of which he’s often mocked unmercifully to no discernible good end.) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 6, 2011 @ 4:29 am Well, yes…that would correspond with the “interesting comments” attached to the NYT article. » Posted By Redemption Song On March 6, 2011 @ 4:25 am FYI: Interesting (and long) article in NYT, “The Liberation of Lori Berenson” with interesting reader comments: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06berenson-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine » Posted By Redemption Song On March 6, 2011 @ 3:33 am Excellent idea: works for me. :0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 5, 2011 @ 1:32 pm Post Script: 1. Apologies for the over-long response…I’m more than a tad irritated with educational inequality; and 2. I forgot to hit “notify of reply” again…and I’m signing off to allow said Math Happiness play “Wild Kratts” on PBS.com. Kind regards & (thanks for the link!! :0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 5, 2011 @ 11:09 am jkkFL, I skimmed through, but I think the article is misleading. Not all school districts are created equal. I’ve lived in two different school districts in the past two years, and although they are different, the distance between them and inner-city Detroit is night and day. (Actually, the difference between much of Oakland County and Detroit is night and day.) In the first school district we lived in, most of the families were white, first generation African/Carribean and first generation Asian. The vast majority of parents were professionals with advanced degrees. The school was high performing, had state-of-the art equipment, and was perpetually clean and quiet. This is a school in which elementary students, including my then pre-kintergartener, took science fair seriously…he received an award for his demonstration of how magnetism moves electrons to generate an electrical current, which was way cool. I didn’t care for the school, however, because of anecdotal and personal evidence that black male students didn’t fare well regardless of innate talent. We then moved to a half professional/half working-class neighborhood. It’s mostly white with significant populations of first generation Arab families, Hasidic & Orthodox Jews, African-Americans who are descendants of the great migration north and a handful of Mexican-American families. Our current school is more economically and socially diverse, with some parents constantly in the classrooms and volunteering with Book Fair, etc., and others that look as if they don’t know what day of the week it is (sorry, but if it’s the case, it’s the case), and others who are somewhere in-between. The school makes a teacher/administration effort to engage the community as a whole and bring people together (e.g., “World Night” in which parents bring dishes from their ethnic backgrounds to share with others), intentionally educating families as well as the children who attend the school. (They have ESL classes, but seem more prepared to handle Spanish than Arabic…they haven’t caught up with a recent demographic shift, as far as I can tell.) They are also very adept at “catching” strong students as well as those who need academic assistance…my son, who is strong in mathematics, was placed in a group of students that has started next year’s math program as they’ve completed this year’s program early. In the first school, a few of the teachers make six figures, the rest are in the $90’s; at the second school, the lowest salary is $75,000 for a first year kindergarten teacher with the highest salary in the low $90s. The first school had an avearage of 22 students per teacher; the second 28 students per teacher. And they are both public schools. My point is that the public school system isn’t “broken”–rather, as is most of the U.S., the distribution of resources, including money, equipment and people, is grossly unfair and unjust. There is absolutely no way that in the two school districts I’ve described, which are also in Michigan, would 60 elementary students in a classroom would be tolerated. For poor blacks, however, it’s not merely tolerated: it has been mandated. » Posted By Redemption Song On March 5, 2011 @ 11:02 am Cher et al., AdLib’s going to look into possibly adding a “Notify” button next to the “Submit” and “Cancel” buttons in the editing dialog box. (I keep forgetting as well.) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 5, 2011 @ 10:34 am …very interesting ghsts. I have to say, I’m not terribly interesting…just your stereotypic mild mannered academic who can be, at times, overwhelmingly articulate and verbal. Although I care for and like people generally, I don’t care for meaness or willful ignorance specifically. I find many things and circumstances patently absurd and/or amusing and, as a result, I chuckle quite a bit. That’s about it! :0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 4, 2011 @ 9:44 am Kalima, I’m with the general sentiment…good news is hard to come by. (I’m always wary of stats on unemployment…the “we stopped looking” crowd is mysteriously not taken into consideration as unemployed for the purpose of couting.) Not necessarily good news, but certainly cozy: Bittman on soups: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06eat-t.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage Have a good one, » Posted By Redemption Song On March 4, 2011 @ 7:56 am ghsts, we each could have more than three, thus better representing our actual preferences. (See _Tyranny of the Majority_.) By the by, simply out of curiosity, does “ghsts” represent the word “ghosts”? » Posted By Redemption Song On March 4, 2011 @ 7:19 am No…I meant what was proposed by law profesor Lani Guinier. (The assumption is that everyone would have an equal number of votes to distribute.) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 4, 2011 @ 7:03 am …I forgot to opt-in for reply notification. (Just an fyi should I come back days later and never reply. :0) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 4, 2011 @ 12:17 am Slightly off topic (but then that is the name of the post ;0), weighted voting, or having more than one vote per person, would be a more accurate, fair represntation of people’s preferences. (And it goes without saying, “Bad, bad conservatives!!” with a pop on the head with a rolled newspaper.) » Posted By Redemption Song On March 4, 2011 @ 12:16 am (Whoops: I meant to post this as a free standing comment as opposed to a reply, KQuark. It’s just that I needed something different (“diverse”?) after the whiteness contest below. ;0) Peace, » Posted By Redemption Song On March 3, 2011 @ 11:34 pm (Ahem.) Cleansing the palate:
» Posted By Redemption Song On March 3, 2011 @ 11:32 pm (Aside: I’ve been referring to you as “2nd Class”, but just realized today that people call you “Pundit” which, I admit, sounds much better. Do you prefer “Pundit”?) » Posted By Redemption Song On February 27, 2011 @ 6:17 am (Certainly forgive…but watch your back. ;0) » Posted By Redemption Song On February 27, 2011 @ 5:55 am No photos, but it snowed here (sorta mid-Michigan) yesterday and throughout the night–big, fluffy white flakes, and you could clearly see the individual patterns. It was absoluely lovely!! » Posted By Redemption Song On February 27, 2011 @ 5:52 am Sounds good to me. » Posted By Redemption Song On February 27, 2011 @ 5:49 am :0) (…the little guy just padded in wearing his footy pajamas and said, “Snuggle?”) » Posted By Redemption Song On February 27, 2011 @ 5:27 am 2nd Class, I agree whole-heartedly, but when I read your comment, “Always Look on the Bright Side” came to mind. (I’m a theist, but not, apparently, a very good one. :0) [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo[/img] » Posted By Redemption Song On February 27, 2011 @ 5:12 amComments Posted By Redemption Song
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