Posts Tagged ‘Jim Crow’
Saturday Links!
* Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s. My friend @ch3chia‘s characterization is the best I’ve seen: “weaponized nonsense.”
* During a five-year period when the state cut the University of Florida’s funding by $230 million, the university cut full-time tenure and tenure track faculty by 9.4 percent and increased part-time and non-tenure faculty by 9.8 percent.
At the same time, the number of executive and administrative positions grew by almost 57 percent, a statistic Tigert Hall said is distorted by a reclassification of people already in existing positions.
Statewide, the university system saw a 20.8 percent growth in administration and a 5.7 percent drop in full-time faculty during that period.
* An old story, but new to me: When the CIA helped jail Nelson Mandela.
* Valences of the Bert and Ernie cover: For. Against.
* Iowa Supreme Court to Reconsider Case of Woman Fired for Being ‘Irresistible.’
* North Carolina Becomes First State To Eliminate Unemployment Benefits.
* And the best Pixar movies (as chosen by children). Who asked them, anyway?
Sunday Night!
* Flights of inspired genius that made me wish I had more Twitter followers: #tweetsfrom2112 (1, 2) and #cabininthe2012GOPprimary.
* Rachel Maddow and conservatism, the new liberalism.
* The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs gave birth to a permanent American under caste.
* Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings.
* …But for every Romney action, there is an equal and opposite Romney reaction.
“I wanted to increase the work requirement,” said Romney. “I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless.’ And I said, ‘No, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It’ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.”
Let Jamison Foser have the final word: “If you think rich stay at home moms are awesome and poor stay at home moms lack dignity, it isn’t motherhood that you respect.”
* Tough times for the Romneys during their college years.
“We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
* CNN has interviewed women in all branches of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard, who tell stories that follow a similar pattern — a sexual assault, a command dismissive of the allegations and a psychiatric discharge.
* How 25 National Magazine Award Nominations Went To 25 Male Writers.
* A Short History of Neoliberalism (And How We Can Fix It).
* Save money next tax season with these space-related tax breaks.
* And a little NostalgiaFilter: What if Google had launched in the 80s?
(thanks zz)