Culture
Culture, Language
Basics
Dear Gen Xers and Millenials…
Well, first you’re going to have to apologize for misspelling “millennials.”
Via Althouse: I’m reading “I’m so, so, so sorry: A Baby Boomer apologizes on behalf of his generation.”
Culture, Language, Trump
Bad Thoughts, Bad Words, Bad Deeds
The ones who fawn over Trump need to be reflected upon. If the media didn’t bleep such profanity on television news they would get backlash from offended people. But those same people are not similarly offended that the profane utterances are from Trump himself! That is the type of people the rest of us need to contend with, and try to not laugh and gag over at the same time.
Via Donald Trump’s Profane Language Should Be National Topic @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS
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Agriculture, Business, Culture, Factory Farming
Family Farms v. Factory Farms
Interconnectedness of the family with the farm makes the farm a “family farm” and the family a “farm family.”
True family farms are and have always been a way of life, not just a massive business enterprise – CAFOs don’t cut it as family farms.
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Culture, Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016, Race
On racial tension, Walker sees ignorance as bliss
“In other words, acknowledging systemic problems like the documented wave of police killings of unarmed black men, or the racial wealth gap, or disparities in sentencing and incarceration, creates “discord.” During the GOP debate, he similarly dodged a question about the Black Lives Matter movement, which even Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly called “the biggest civil rights issue of our…
Culture, Travel
36 Hours in Provence
Via FREE WHITEWATER.
Culture, Madison
Pride Parade, Madison, WI
Culture, Economy, Education, Politics, UW Madison, Wisconsin
John Wiley laments what Wisconsin has become
“Wake up, Wisconsin! Recover your history and your legacy. Become, once again, the state others aspire to equal. Don’t keep aiming to be number fifty out of fifty for taxes, regulations, education, infrastructure and everything else that matters. Some of these are things that matter much more to all of us, no matter how we…
Culture, Social Media
Indeterminable
I don’t know how popular that “true gender mix” test is, but it can’t possibly give you an answer to that question. Quite aside from whether there is such a thing as your true gender mix, if you know it’s a true-gender-mix test, your answers will be tainted by whatever it is you want to be. And just from the fine print in that “70% Female” result, you can see that the test is designed to lure males into identifying as female. Female apparently means “kind and understanding.” If you strain to be seen as 100% male — if that’s what you want to be — you’re going to be told in the end that you’re a dick.
Culture, Gov. Walker, Immigration
Delavan
“Coming from the town of Plainfield, Iowa, with fewer than 500 people, Walker has said he saw Delavan as the “big city” when his family moved there in 1977…. The area’s Latino population has grow[n] exponentially since around that time. Only 7% in 1980, it climbed to 11% in 1990, then 21% in 2000 and…
Courts, Culture, Law, Liberty
6.26.15
I headed to the entry way of our home upon hearing the news this morning about the ruling from the Supreme Court about my right to marry the person I love. Days ago my partner James, who is the neighborhood vexillologist, pulled from his collection the colorful gay pride flag and had it neatly folded on a trunk, ready for the day the ruling would come down. I picked it up and walked briskly outside knowing that this ruling, will without a doubt, be the most profound action the court will ever have on my life….
Via Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Personal, Profound, Magnificent @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.
Culture, GOP, Gov. Walker, Law, Liberty, Presidential race 2016
Walker Upset with High Court
Gov. Scott Walker on Friday called the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage across the country “a grave mistake.”
Walker issued a lengthy statement on Facebook backing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow states to define marriage and calling the ruling “judicial activisim.”
Via Scott Walker: Supreme Court gay marriage ruling ‘a grave mistake’ @ Madison com.
Culture, History, Race
That Flag Should Go
Business, Culture, History
Retailers lower the Confederate battle flag
Culture, Politics, Race
Rethinking
Now calls for removal.
Via Sen. Lindsey Graham Shows Leadership Over Confederate Flag @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.
Culture, Federal Government
But the Treasury is displacing Hamilton?
“I’ve always found it a bit odd that we Americans choose to honor a man who hated the banking system, who sent thousands of Native Americans to their deaths by taking their land by force and who introduced the system of pork barrel spending and patronage to our political system with a spot on some…
Culture, Federal Government
Important to be important
I’ll save you the trouble of watching that clip. The reason is that women are “important” and it’s “important” for “women and men” to know that women are “important.” Now, just picture a smarmy smile on a bureaucrat and you’ve got it.
Via Jack Lew explains why the Treasury Department is putting a woman on the $10 bill @ Althouse.
Culture, GOP, Law, Liberty, Politics, Rights
One Paragraph
During the 2004 elections, George W. Bush’s campaign, managed by a closeted gay man, pushed a series of anti-gay ballot initiatives across the country. The House of Representatives, led by a male speaker who allegedly sexually assaulted a male minor, moved a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage after beating back attempts to strengthen hate…
Crime, Culture
Incurious
Via “By the way, is anyone asking about the family makeup of the bikers in Waco?” @ Althouse
Culture, Local Government, Madison, Politics, Race
Blaska on race in Madison
Madison fears The Race Card more than stage four cancer. The institutions have been sufficiently mau-maued by “activists.” The mob closed down a bank on the capitol square for an afternoon. The mayor tried to penalize contributors to the wrong political action groups. The threat of economic boycott looms over independent-thinking businesses; social ostracism awaits…
Culture, Education, Free Speech, Marquette
Cure more dreadful than disease
Crime, Culture, Police
Students on Race & Policing
Culture, Schools
Did Edgewood High ignore rampant racism?
Culture, Local Government, Madison, Police, Politics
Rejection
‘Order doesn’t work for us’ 'Order doesn't work for us': Young, Gifted and Black embrace radical role http://t.co/ZLPaEsxEc7 pic.twitter.com/SHoeeOvLbo — madison.com (@madisondotcom) April 3, 2015
Culture, Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016, Words & Expressions
Walker Runs from Wisconsin
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Out on the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Scott Walker has left “Wiscahnsin” back home in Wisconsin. He now wants to strengthen the economy, not the “ecahnahmy.” And while he once had the “ahnor” of meeting fellow Republicans, he told one group here this week that he simply enjoyed “talkin’ with y’all.” The…
Crime, Culture, Law, Police
Law Enforcement & Race
Crime, Culture, Madison, Police
Right asks Left about crime
Tell us this, Brandi Grayson: Were the three shootings over the weekend on the southwest side and at West Towne Mall “crimes of poverty”? Tell us this, Paul Fanlund: Are police the problem or the solution? Tell us this, County Sup. Leland Pan: Is the county jail an investment in a livable community? Via Young…
Culture, Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016
Right, far right
Mr. Walker has quickly vaulted into the top tier of likely Republican candidates in the presidential race, surging on the reputation he earned by taking on labor unions and surviving a bitter recall election in a swing state. But the governor is also making an aggressive effort to win the hearts of the party’s Christian…