Save Ethnic Studies Forum Thursday, June 30
by David Safier If you've been following the news and my posts about Mexican American Studies, you understand the controversy, but for a look inside the program from a philosophical, pedagogical and personal perspective, you have to attend an SES forum. I went to the last one, and as much time as I've spent looking … Read more
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission meeting Wednesday – Phoenix
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission could use a better managed web site. Like maybe posting meeting notices and agendas on the web site well in advance of scheduled meetings to encourage public participation and testimony. It's almost as if the Commission doesn't want the public to know when they are meeting, or … Read more
‘They’re going to put me in the movies…’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: After bigfooting Willard "Mittens" Romney's campaign kickoff in New Hampshire with her magical mystery tour bus trip to nowhere with the sycophant media villagers in tow, Sarah Palin is now headed to Pella, Iowa on Tuesday to bigfoot today's campaign kickoff for the Minnesota Loon, Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) in Waterloo, Iowa. The Quitta … Read more
Why Russell Pearce looks unhappy
by David Safier The Capitol Times' cover article (subscription only) has one of the better graphics I've seen lately: an unhappy looking Russell Pearce next to a Spanish language copy of The Book of Mormon. Pearce has a problem. His church doesn't agree with his stand on illegal immigration. Pearce loves to talk about the … Read more
New job posting at the Bachmann campaign: fact checker
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A day after Chris Wallace of FAUX News Sunday asked the Minnesota Loon, Rep Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), "Are you a flake?" Chris Wallace asks Bachmann if she's a 'flake', (for which Wallace has caved under pressure from angry viewers of FAUX Nation and apologized for suggesting Bachmann was a "flake"), the Minnesota … Read more
Good for them
by David Safier During Brewer's two day special session called to extend unemployment, where no bill was ever brought to the floor, Democrats suggested legislators should turn their per diem pay back to the state. Making money by refusing to help Arizona's unemployed? It doesn't make sense. The Republicans, of course, weren't interested. So the … Read more
The Nuke News cup runneth over (So does the Missouri River)
by David Safier Where to start in today's Nuke News? How about in the good old U.S. of A. I remember writing in a recent post, Nebraska's nuclear reactors are protected from Missouri River flooding by earthen berms and rubber walls. What could go wrong? Here's what. The rubber wall can deflate, as it did … Read more
