[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Cleavage and Crossed legs — this week for women in politics.
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
I heard about the ridiculous knock on Elena Kagan for failing to act like a "proper lady" and cross her legs and decided not to even comment it was so stupid. But I missed the second act of this absurd play for some reason and it's a doozy…
[Explanation and pictures. -L]
I know. It's a shocking display of raw sexuality which has no place in our politics.
[Note that the flock of political "leaders" who salivate over the perceived indecent clothing of supposed liberals are the same bunch who crow about how invading Muslim countries is great because "We liberated their women!" -L]
- Are we passively watching an unrepresented underclass of the long-term unemployed created before our eyes?
- [Hullabaloo - Digby]
Brad DeLong discusses the odd fact that Washington doesn't seem to care that we have 10% unemployment when in the past, notably during the Reagan administration, it was cause for alarm and stirred strenuous government action. Today, the government seems to be lackadaisical at best, going on about how the long term unemployed need tough love and whining that deficit reduction must be a priority…
- The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past.
- [Hullabaloo - Tristero]
We should ignore Texas BOE. But we can't. They have too much power to shape America's textbooks.
Michael Lind says, don't fight the right wing over this. Instead, yes, let's go along with the wingnuts. Yes, give the South's ideology equal time with Lincoln and the North. Schoolkids should read not only the Davis inaugural but also the Confederate Constitution. And they simply mustn't skip the Cornerstone Speech by Alexander Stephens, Davis' vice-president:
[Vile and nakedly racist philosophy redacted. -L]
It's still a waste of time to spend more than a few minutes on this shit. We're talking introduction to American history here, and there are a lot of good ideas – can you say New Deal? – that will be given short shrift in order to leave enough time to illustrate conclusively the racism of the Confederacy.
But still, Lind is on to something here.
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