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Wednesday, April 09, 2014
For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large - NYTimes.com
For better or worse, Johnson represented the high-water mark for American presidents pushing through sweeping legislation — not just the Civil Rights Act, but the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the Fair Housing Act and major measures on immigration, education, gun control and clean air and water. No president since has approached that level of legislative success, although there are people who argue that is a good thing because government should not be so intrusive.
For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large - NYTimes.com
But Mr. Obama and many Democrats are not among them. At this stage of his presidency, Mr. Obama has become a symbol of liberal frustration over his inability to use government to bring about change. Republicans publicly, and some Democrats privately, blame Mr. Obama for not doing more to work across the aisle. The White House and many Democrats scoff at that, laying stalemate at the feet of what they call an obstructionist Republican Party.
For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large - NYTimes.com
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Battlestar Galactica on course for movie reboot, report
says
" The rumoured project, which is said to have signed on "Transcendence" writer Jack Paglen, will be a "complete reimagining" of the story, Variety reports. Glen Larson, who created the original 1978 series, is pegged to produce the silver screen effort.
While details are thin on the ground, a "reimagining" suggests that any upcoming Battlestar movie will depart from the acclaimed 2004 series, which starred Katee Sackhoff, Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell as star-flung travellers fleeing the destruction of the Colonies at the hands of the dastardly, cybernetic Cylons. Universal execs Scott Bernstein and Jay Polidoro are rep"
Monday, April 07, 2014
The Web can make you lose your religion, study says
"Allen Downey, a computer scientist at the Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, thought he'd see whether religious affiliation was taking a hit from Mammon's constant virtual dissemination.
His study, published in the MIT Technology Review, might send chills down the pocket-linings of more than one tele-evangelist. For the figures show that there is a significant correlation between increased Internet use and a decline in religiosity.
Between 1990 and 2010, 25 million Americans shed their religion. At least officially. Using the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, Downey plotted the rise of the Internet against this fall in holy devotion.
The biggest factor of continued religious affiliation is family. If you are born into a religious family, you are more likely to maintain that commitment.
Downey, though, insists that though fewer people are being born into religious families, he can only attribute 25 percent of the drop in religiosity to this factor.
Greater levels of college education also contribute. However, when Downey examined the figures for Internet use, he found that by 2010, 25 percent of people were online for more than 7 hours every day.
How odd that this 25 percent number mirrors the 25 percent who seem to have shed their beliefs."
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Melissa Harris-Perry Calls Out Mississippi Governor For Signing Law That Helps 'Bigots'
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry called out the governor of Mississippi on Saturday for signing legislation that may protect business owners' ability to discriminate against LGBT customers.
Melissa Harris-Perry Calls Out Mississippi Governor For Signing Law That Helps 'Bigots'
Melissa Harris-Perry Calls Out Mississippi Governor For Signing Law That Helps 'Bigots'
Other People's Pathologies - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
"Black culture and the culture of poverty are not the same thing."
Black Pathology Crowdsourced - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
"I think it might help this discussion to offer some sense of how I came to my views on culture and white supremacy. I want to go back to the original piece I wrote, "A Culture of Poverty," and highlight an exchange I had in comments. Then I want to point to a recent note I received which helped clarify things even more."
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