um, I think the question is whether there was something out of the ordinary last time, which may or may not be reason to suggest the same will happen this time. There was no suggestion that an 8mo recovery was “no big deal”

I have no doubt that he had many many proclivities.

and there is an infinite number of points between two degrees.

excellent comment.

“dumb story line” vs. “child rape” hummm, seems a bit different to me.

doubtful, he seems to make sure that his income is just his pension, which is protected.

If you have a European dishwasher, which typically don’t have a heating element (like Bosch). They have stainless steel sidewalls that draw the condensation from the hot dishes. In that case, you generally leave the door closed and they will dry in this manner. If you have an element, you are adding additional heat to…

I’d suggest that our disagreement is one that is more over form than substance. I don’t disagree with what you say there. I didn’t intend my comment to suggest excuse as ignoring what he did only that it needs to be viewed within the context of the time. That doesn’t make it right, but it provides a more nuanced view…

Maybe I didn’t make it clear, but basically, I think we can’t apply today’s standards to that time. Otherwise we would need to toss most of our cultural history.

well by that criteria I hope she removes Huck Finn for a modern less problematic work, right?

“You spend your entire existence here questioning everything progressives say. “

You must not have a lot of history reading my posts and comments.  

Really? She did a good job of obscuring that point.

Well I think we have to consider the context of the time. We don’t live in the 1940's and so the argument about Muslim caricatures is different. This was all with full endorsement by the U.S. Government. Part of how you motivate people to fight is to make them an “other” so I’m sure they wanted to dehumanize them as…

but that is not what child development experts think. Besides, why does it matter if they can read. That lets them read the books. They were meant to be read by children not just for parents to read to them.

“doesn’t really deal with the fact that differences make us wonderfully diverse and interesting,”

I doubt that this was a common view in 1953.

First of all, I find “pragmatic mom’s” blog post to be superficial and specious. There is really only one citation that is inconsistent applied and treated as if it is the only interpretation. The conclusion the Sneeches is about White Supremacy flies in the face of his long history of fighting antisemitism, which we…

The Sneeches isn’t about not seeing color, it is about not treating someone differently based on how they look. He purposefully chose stars because of his strong stance against antisemitism.

I think the blackface argument is really a stretch. Not only is it a cat, it is a cat (similar to a tuxedo cat). The cat actually has a white face in the book. While a trickster, the cat is also a positive character. Finally, “blackface-looking” to what end? If he was making the cat blackface, there what was he…

Living near Berkeley, that makes total sense.

Maybe for Tiger Mom’s, but on average that isn’t going to happen.