School funding dropped precipitously during and after busing. Busing provided the impetus for vouchers and the first charter schools programs. Cutting funding for public education was the intent of the conservatives who supported busing and income-based food & public housing programs. The purpose was to bring in…

ESPN and all sports businesses are happy to trot out Jackie Robinson and sell jerseys with the number 42, they’re happy to claim Jessie Owens as an icon of American values and do flag waving TV specials on him, they’ll even do special promotions about the Negro Leagues and the All American Girls Professional League…

The opposing end of abortion are abortion is required for all or denied for all. Individual choice as part of public heath policy is the compromise.

Anything that isn’t a medical evaluation between a doctor and patient is intrusion. Nuance is situational. You have to trust the judgement of those involved to make a complex moral choice, not politicians or police to make a generalized law or rule.

Graham is one of those avuncular men who is “a nice guy” so people mistake politeness for compassion. He’s always been a jerk, but now that the volume has been dialed up, he gets to be louder than he has been. He has done nothing particular and everything simply by being a GOP guy.

How old do they have to be before they’re required to dye their hair blonde?

Stop equating calling things properly with not attending to society’s evils. It is possible to be concerned about the homeless and want to do away with unnecessary and inaccurate terminology, terminology that presents objects and tasks as if they are suited to or representative on a gender.

Zuckerberg has only spent about three days in his San Francisco compound since the three years of construction finished about two years ago. His security guards are there full time, so maybe they heard it from their perpetually monitored positions.

Cripplingly stupid. I live about two miles from this hill and ambulances are a regular sight as idiots fall off their boards or decide to race a streetcar or challenge the traffic light at the bottom of the hill. I saw a skateboarder careen down the hill into a car crossing the intersection. The car couldn’t have…

Steyer is from a rich family who sent him to school to get richer. All these uber wealthy people make money not from building or making anything, but from manipulating money by using financial instruments. Hedge funds and private equity, for example, create companies that borrow huge sums of money and invest in or buy…

Two things would bring baseballs fortunes up:

Only 41% of KY voters voted in the last several elections. Bill Clinton brought out an astounding 82% in 1992 beating Bush Sr. by 4 percentage points. The alst time McConnell own he won with 56% of the votes with the non-GOP votes split between Democrat and a Libertarian candidate.

Yes, sometimes you concede the out. Sometimes there’s no way you’re going to score, so the idea that taking out an opposing player instilled as competitive instead of simply destructive.

The biggest problem with this movie - all Danny Boyle movies - is that he stops short of asking the question that would make his movies meaningful. In this case the question is, “What happens when we, as a society, lose our collective memory? What happens to history, to art, to knowledge when we forget? What happens…

Everyone talks about busing as if it ever had a definition of success. Was it to end racism? It didn’t and couldn’t do that. Was it to create equal access to a decent public education? It didn’t and couldn’t do that. Was it to engage parents? It didn’t and couldn’t do that.

That BBC piece on Ivanka is crap. It’s fawning over her and presuming she did things there’s no evidence she’s done. It doesn’t even examine her claims of treating working mothers - you know, those women she & her company that steals designs abuse & underpay and refuse to provide healthcare for. And, if she is doing…

Iaccoca knowingly put a deadly car on the road, then, when caught, argued that it wasn’t his fault that the thing he knew would explode exploded, should have gone to jail for multiple murders. Instead, he and his despicable pal, Ronald Reagan, yell about individual responsibility then use taxpayer money to fix stuff…

Nearly half of all pedestrian accidents involve bicyclists.

Let us remember, the NY Times fired and no longer carries editorial cartoons because they’re controversial. They keep the dirtbags of stupidity, Brooks, Stephens, Weis, & Friedman and the editorial staff espouses all sorts of half-assed things & makes half-assed attempts at being corporately compassionate.

Scarring isn’t just physical. Just today I moved in such a way that I felt the deep tug of internal scars. Every once in a while emotions lead me back to the trauma. The surgeon didn’t need to remove my sex organs, there was nothing wrong, he just got a ton more money because insurers pay per procedure in the US. Oh,…