Mamalicious!

G8 leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis!
(hat tip to TAO, my brother from another mother)

I went out on a first (and last) date once with a cop.  It was an online thing, and based on his picture, I wasn’t all that enthused.  But I went…and then interacting with him face to face, I was even less enthused.
It wasn’t just that I wasn’t attracted to him.  There was also the […]

Interesting NYT article on how Clinton supporters are coming around…slowly.
Here’s a quote from the litterbox article:
The hard-core Hillary supporters have certainly not yet achieved total unification bliss. Perhaps it’s just that their heroine hasn’t had a chance yet to reprogram each one individually. (“Repeat after me: ‘This will all work out.’ And let me hear […]

Seems not everyone is a Kara Walker fan…

No Child Left Behind: Doomed to Fail?
…Add to the mix the fact that much of the promised funding failed to materialize and many early critics insisted that No Child Left Behind was nothing more than a cynical plan to destroy American faith in public education and open the way to vouchers and school choice.
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I like this breakdown of how Clinton’s presumptuousness about superdelegate loyalty was her undoing. They didn’t mention her bigger-than-Texas-sized sense of entitlement outright, but you can read between the lines. Some highlights:
“Sure, Senator Clinton was the favorite early on, but that was simply because of the institutional support that she already had,” […]

The teacher’s defense of his actions leave me speechless.
Teacher suspended for using racial epithet

This is a long, but worthwhile read. From their report to lawmakers’ ears…
FINDING FAMILIES FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN: THE ROLE OF RACE & LAW
IN ADOPTION FROM FOSTER CARE
Authors: Susan Smith, Ruth McRoy, Madelyn Freundlich, Joe Kroll
Published: 2008 May. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Policy Brief (58 pages)
Availability: PDF Full Report […]

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8178466?GT1=39002#
Girl, 12, told she can’t play ball with boys
You play ball like a girl.
That used to be an insult. In Beaverton, Oregon, it’s becoming more like a fantasy.

…you might want to go easy on calling other folk “elitist.”
In my personal dictionary, wealth and elitism go hand in hand. By virtue of being rich, you automatically isolate yourself from HAVING to experience the struggles that the less-well-off must face. You automatically have more personal, professional, economic, and social choices and […]