A LOCAL DISCUSSION ABOUT RACE

A local opinion piece in the News-Leader has spurred all kinds of trouble.

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100426/OPINIONS05/4260349/1006/OPINIONS/Snider++Americans+don+t+owe+slave+descendants+any+apologies

Rhetorica has a lot of information about the issue. Not only did the patriotic writer (as he is billed) refer to African Americans as "colored youth," but the editor has taken heat for not being an editor. Rhetorica does a much better job than I would.

http://rhetorica.net/

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THE WIFE WAS RIGHT: MO LOOKING TO PASS CRAZY IMMIGRATION LAW

As soon as the Arizona immigration law hit the news, Skinny Kitty commented that Missouri would jump on board. She was right, according to the News-Leader

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100429/BLOGS09/100429011/State-lawmaker-wants-Arizona-s-new-immigration-law-in-Missouri

Fortunately, it won't likely pass this year, but you wait. They will try it again.


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FREE COMIC BOOK DAY THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. Take your kids.


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A NAZI REVOLUTION (OF IGNORANCE)

We are entirely too enamored with the "Nazi" label these days, if you ask me. It's reared its ugly head once again with the crazy Arizona immigration law. Make no mistake, this law is more about getting rid of brown skins (who are taking over as the majority) than it is about being here legally.

As crazy as the law is, the folks who sponsored, wrote, lobbied, or voted for it are not Nazis. They may be a lot of things, but hey are not The SS.

Enough of the Nazi talk, already.


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SUCH A THING AS CARING TOO MUCH

This article sent to me by a Jack operative.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/27/moms.quit.job.college.admissions/index.html?hpt=C2

At first it seems that a Mom is great for giving up her fancy career for her kids. I'm not sure that it really benefits your kids when you quit your job to micromanage their child's high school and pre-college goings-on.

Seems to me, if your kid cannot write his own college entrance exam then he's not ready for college. Helicopter mom! This Is hovering gone awry.


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GENDER BIAS LAWSUIT

Walmart is in trouble again, this time with a lawsuit against them for gender bias. Here's the stat I found interesting:

70% of workforce are females
30% of management are women

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/26/walmart.suit/index.html?hpt=T1


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BLOGGING FROM THE IPAD

I am trying blogging from my iPad, in the chair, while watching TV. Right now it won't let me type in "compse" mode. I have click on "edit HTML" but that works just fine.

What I'm really hoping for is an app for blogger.

BETTER THAN BLOGGING

I really didn't anticipate engaging in the Facebook experience as much as I have. I find I use it more as a blogging replacement (micro-blogging) than as a personal social sharing. I find news stories and with the click of a button I can share that story on Facebook and give some kind of opinion, albeit a very small one. 

I wish news sites had a Blogger button I could click and automatically log into blogger, complete with a link provided. It doesn't work that way, but I think it would help the blogging community. The problem with Facebook is that there isn't room to write anything of any significance (unless you use their blogging took but who does that?)

Interestingly, I am using the blog format to discuss this. No, the irony isn't lost on me. I still love to write and that's not what Facebook is about. I just wish news outlets made posting to blogger easier, more intuitive ... more Mac-like.