Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert, is a great history of capitalism..
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What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Single-sex classroom research: Fake brain science supports gender segregation..
The problem with such generalizations is that there are plenty of boys and girls who don’t conform to them—girls who are very physical or good at math, and boys who are very sensitive or good at reading—and are therefore being marginalized in such environments.
…In children, especially, research finds that gender segregation exaggerates their beliefs in hardwired, immutable differences between the sexes. So while girls or boys may love their single-sex classes and even feel temporarily empowered in them, the loss of opportunity to work with members of the other sex ultimately fosters a distorted belief in gender difference that restricts all children’s potential.
Considerable research has now proven that single-sex education does not produce better academic outcomes than co-education. Which raises the question: Why have gender segregation at all in K-12 schools?
sigh….
Justice Dept.: Cleveland police used excessive force – CNN.com.
It is important to be honest and own this shit but seriously, reading these examples make me sick to my stomach,
Ferguson marchers to arrive at Missouri Capitol – Yahoo News.
Sigh….
I am with and support these brave souls but has marching accomplished anything since MLK, Evans, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, and all those guys got gunned down???
Double sigh….
Two-phone standoff after cop stops man for \’walking with hands in pockets\’ – CNET.
There is no evidence that McKean did anything wrong. However, the officer explains: “You’re making people nervous.”
When McKean wonders what he’s done, the officer replies: “Yeah, they said you had your hands in your pockets.”
As McKean expresses outrage that walking with your hands in your pockets on a cold day is cause for people to call the police, the officer insists: “Well, we do have a lot of robberies around here.”
Sigh.
#walkingwhileblack ?
Sheriff Defends Stopping Black Man For Walking With Hands In His Pockets.
Sheriff Piggyscum says the police have to respond to all 911 calls and the officer was just doing his job.
Bull-fucking-shit.
“The crazy thing is, I know somebody who got their house broken into and they called the police, and the police took about two hours to come,” he said. “And they came and pulled up on me in under five minutes for walking with my hands in [my] pockets, and that doesn’t make sense.”
In Syria’s Kobani, Kurds fight ISIS amid devastation – CNN.com.
Jeezus… Power to those brave women.
Tesar is working with a production company to develop a Gordon Ramsay-style reality TV show. He’s been asking various critics and food writers to be a part of the program, including, you guessed it, Leslie Brenner. Tesar thinks it would be “brilliant television” if she signed on.
So it’s all a fucking publicity stunt. Losers.
Putting uneducated, emotionally unstable psychos on the streets with guns and badges should be a crime in itself.
What HR genius said, “hey, let’s hire this guy so he can murder a child in cold blood.”
I don’t just want harsh and immediately legal consequences for these lawless thugs, the people who empower them to go on their uniformed crime spreee should see the inside of a jail too.
“That’s what the police department’s supposed to do.”
Actually, you arrogant, self-centered, hypocritical fuckstick,the police are supposed to protect members of the public from harm,not protect each other when they face consequences for crimes the police committed in the course of the daily routine a violent, murderous, psychopaths. You say tomato, I say racist murderers….
Awww, let’s all have a pity party for poor, poor whitey cop who didn’t get to finish mowing his lawn because that is the true tragedy here, the psycho’s curb appeal and not the fact that he murdered a teenager in cold blood and got away with it.
(Um, not.)
Protecting him is enabling him and putting your stamp of approval on his crime. I hope (and only for their innocent families sake) that none of these hypocritical embaressments to the idea of protecting and serving the public have to face the un-ending pain that Michael Brown’s parent do. …In truth it is what every single one of them deserve.
Way not to be evil guys.
Google defines not being evil and Google doing whatever the fuck it wants.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Black lives don’t matter, the public is the enemy and the police are a uniformed bunch of thugs who lie and kill at will.