Of course for a lot of people, Monday falls on a Tuesday this week, as Churchy LaFemme might say. Happy thought for the morning, per the Washington Post, it’s Science Fair Day at the White House:
… This year, 100 students from 30 states will be on hand to not only impress the president, but also chat it up with the science guy himself, Bill Nye, and Kari Byron, host of “Mythbusters” and “Head Rush.”
This year’s event, the fourth White House Science Fair, will have a special focus on getting girls involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields. Half the students at the fair today will be young women. And Valerie Jarrett and Tina Chen, who head the White House Office of Women and Girls, are set to host a roundtable with 10 girls from the science fair. That event will kick off a new series of events that will look to help bring girls together with STEM leaders from the administration and across the country…
These kids are doing some pretty impressive work:
Girl-Coders Build App to Help Visually Impaired Classmate: Together, Cassandra Baquero, 13, Caitlyn Gonzolez, 12, and Janessa Leija, 11 — part of an all-girl team of app-builders from Resaca Middle School in Los Fresnos, Tex. — designed an innovative solution to help one of their visually impaired classmates. The students built “Hello Navi” — an app that gives give verbal directions to help users navigate unfamiliar spaces based on measurements of a user’s stride and digital building-blueprints. The service makes use of common digital tools such as a compass and optical Braille readers and can be tailored for use in any building. The Girls’ invention made them one of eight teams to win the recent Verizon Innovative App Challenge, and also earned their school a $20,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation.
If you want to watch the event, which begins at about 11 a.m. EDT, go here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/science-fair
Image at the top is Mary Cassat’s (self) Portrait of the Artist, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has announced that “more than 400,000 high-res images from the museum’s collections will now be available for free digital download and use in any non-commercial medium — Facebook, Tumblr and personal blogs included.”
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Apart from such community uplift, what’s on the agenda for the day?
OzarkHillbilly
Whoa…. Super cool.
Today, I am awaiting the latest Republican outreach efforts. “People need to return to their God-given rightful station in life in order to fulfill their intended purposes as only He can know. Until they do they will never know the love that is Jesus.”
Rep. Adam Loonnelee (R) MS***
***(wholly made up person. any resemblance to Rep Alan Nunnelee is on purpose)
Xboxershorts
Too young for Viet Nam, too old for Dessert Storm, I joined the Navy to learn computer and electronics technology. Worked in the field as a technician then engineer for 3 1/2 decades. Laid off on May14th which coincides with my muster out day (In 1984 that is). The GI Bill and associated benefits were scaled way back by the time I mustered out.
But I got a careerout of it and did it for 30+ years. After so long in this field one can either expect to be in a leadership/management role or a teaching/guidance role. But management was never my gig, I’m too empathic to fire anyone and fixing things and making it work has always been in my blood. I’m not a good manager but I’m pretty sure I can be a good teacher.
So, wish me well, at 54 I’m being launched in a new career direction against my will.
I hope and pray that the movement conservative’s disdain for helping Americans get back on their feet eases some after the mid terms. Don’t ever let these assholes back into the Democratic party. There’s nothing more disgusting than a blue dog democrat.
ulee
I suppose that’s a pretty good painting. Wow.
NotMax
Or, as Paul Broun calls it, “Lies straight from the pit of Hell Day.”
Phylllis
Off to Charleston for a corrective vision outpatient procedure. Standard pre-op instructions of no food or drink after midnight. Reallllly would like some coffee about now.
sharl
Good luck Xboxershorts! I’m a few years older than you, and we ain’t exactly ‘hot property’ in the job market. But I would think your electronics experience would offer you some advantages.
Hoping for the best for you.
Tommy
@OzarkHillbilly: I saw that news item the other day. It is so cool I don’t have words for it. I hope many other places follow suit. 400,000 images.
Science Fair Day at the White House. Has a nice ring to it. Imagine you are like 13 and the POTUS walks up to you and says, “hey this is neat, tell me what you did here.” How cool would that be?
ulee
interesting painting. She doesn’t just look unhappy, she looks sick. And her hands are mangled.
Tommy
@Xboxershorts: Sorry to hear that. This is just me thinking out loud here. My brother in his mid-30s went back to college. The first time, epic fail. Got a tech degree and lucked out with a really good Internship that turned into a job. All he does is Cisco installs. Mostly VOIP but turning into a lot of video. His firm has a back log of work. More work then they can handle.
They’d hire more people, but alas they are not out there. It gets complex, but there are a lot of certifications required to do his work. In fact Cisco charges firms that does his type of work MORE for the product if the staff don’t have the certifications. What I can gather from talking with him is most people don’t want to put in the work. It is a total pain to always be studying for this test or that test.
So in a long winded way look into Cisco work. I’d think with your background the learning scale wouldn’t be that bad. And if you can pass the certification tests I am betting the firm could care less your age.
madmommy
Headed to outpatient surgery in a bit to take my eldest for a tonsillectomy. He’s a bit cranky because he can’t have anything to eat or drink this morning and is convinced he will expire from starvation at any moment. I know the next few days aren’t going to be much fun for him but he has band camp to look forward to in July, so that’s something!
PurpleGirl
@ulee: Mary Cassatt was an impressionist painter. She was born in a town that is now part of Pittsburgh. She is an important painter in American art.
The lady’s hands are not mangled, she is holding them at an angle.
ETA: Proof before you hit submit….
Xboxershorts
I think I’d rather teach than implement these days. I’ve been Cisco certified in the past but for the past 12 years or so it’s been majority Juniper routing and switching. I have an active advanced Juniper Networks certification and I know that Juniper is hungry for trainers. I’m gonna take the summer mostly off but do the research I need in order to see what it takes to go in that direction.
I’m not desperate yet, but I’ll be honest, divorce and bankruptcy in the mid 90’s followed by over a decade of heavy child support has pretty much guaranteed that I will never be able to officially retire. So I can’t sit on my ass for long.
ET
I am impressed with those young ladies. Not just because of what they did but why they did it.
Schlemizel
NPR ran a mixed bag story about ACA this AM. They had a story about a TX couple who were unhappy with the Dr. choices & got rejected by some doctors on the plan they bought from BCBS. Of course Dad wanted to blame ACA but the sad fact is that happens more than many people care to admit. It happened with my family a few times over the last 20-25 years and if a failure of the insurance company not ACA. But it would have been to difficult for the little dears to explain that.
Oddly enough the BCBS guy called all those docs & they all told him they would accept the insurance!
ulee
@PurpleGirl: I really like it. I’m trying to figure it out.
Schlemizel
@PurpleGirl:
Why are you wasting your time and killing innocent bits for nothing?
NotMax
For some of us of a certain vintage, as corny as it was, Watch Mr. Wizard was must-see TV.
Also too, during prime time, the occasional AT&T Bell Labs science special, extra wondrous to those with a still rare color set.
Ash Can
Nice news bits. And props for the Pogo reference.
Tommy
@Xboxershorts:
Oh I hear that. I am 43. My mom, bless her heart, asked me the other day if I was going to go back to work at a company, and not keep working for myself. “Don’t you need a pension so you can retire?”
I was like mom that isn’t the way the world works these days. Sure dad has a pension, spent decades working for the Federal government. You dad had one, decades working for Snap-on. We have 401Ks not pensions. Honestly just a roll of the dice.
She seemed confused by this ….
Schlemizel
@Xboxershorts:
If you can handle Cisco and Juniper you should be able to find something. I was in the same situation about 10 years ago & the problem was that everything being offered was for less money. I worked contract for about 4 years & hated the constant interviewing. I finally took about a 12% pay cut to get something permanent. It worked out though about 2 years ago I got 8% of that back when I was able to move internally. It just sucks to need work these days.
Good luck, I think you’ll be OK.
ulee
@Schlemizel: I think someone here had his feelings hurt because he can’t explain his reference to sodomy.
Tommy
@NotMax: Oh Bell Labs. I got to visit a few times. Did a brochure and an ad campaign for AT&T’s equipment division when they spun off into Lucent. Their tagline of “we make the things that make communications work” is about the most accurate thing ever. Anybody here, pretty much anything in your household that is a computer or even electronic, well Bell Labs invented that.
Bell Labs along with PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) pretty much invented everything we use today from a computer point-of-view. Two great American success stories. But alas both are just a shell of their former greatness.
rikyrah
I love Science Fair day. I didn’t as a kid, but I respect these kids who are so frigging smart and imaginative at an early age.
Schlemizel
@Tommy:
Lucent bought and sank the best company I ever worked for. This was when they were flat out lying on their books. The CEO had a beautiful golf course built next to headquarters and had no clue what innovation even meant.
We were successful and dynamic, we had more Cisco Certified Internet Engineers than Cisco did & Lucent had no clue what they wanted us for. They added layers of management as engineers streamed out the door. Everyone involved in that sale should get an undetected case of syph and died slowly.
rikyrah
African-American cowboy crooner Herb Jeffries dies
By JESSICA HERNDON — May. 26, 2014 6:05 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Herb Jeffries, the first African-American singing cowboy to appear in movies in the 1930s, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 100.
His death was confirmed by Raymond Strait, who worked with Jeffries
on his not-yet-published autobiography titled “Color of Love.”
Jeffries, who was born Umberto Valentino in Detroit in 1913 and was of Sicilian, Irish and Ethiopian decent, appeared as a horse-riding good
guy with a thick mustache in a number of ’30s westerns including
“Harlem Rides the Range” and “Harlem on the Prairie,” a musical that
featured an all-black cast that included actor Spencer Williams.
Jeffries was known for his luscious baritone. In the 1940s, he performed as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and released his signature tune “Flamingo.” In 1941, he appeared in Ellington’s all-black musical revue “Jump for Joy” alongside Dorothy Dandridge in Los Angeles.
His popular solo hits “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano” and “Basin Street Blues” were released after he’d served in World War II.
Jeffries appeared in nine films and on television shows like “Hawaii
Five-O” and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame in 2004.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/african-american-cowboy-crooner-herb-jeffries-dies
rikyrah
Brian Dickerson: Why did Republicans go against DIA-loving constituents’ wishes?
excerpt:
Goike, a second-term legislator from Ray Township, is the latest in a long line of Macomb County Republicans who have established political careers by demonizing Detroit and ridiculing the notion that their own constituents’ future is somehow yoked to that of Michigan’s largest city.
Goike’s House district is in northeastern-most Macomb and has more in common with Michigan’s Thumb than with the more cosmopolitan tri-county region. Goike’s predecessors include former state Sen. David Jaye, who reigned as Lansing’s premiere race-baiting charlatan until his legislative colleagues voted to expel him in 2001, and former state Rep. Leon Drolet, who liked to barnstorm the state with a giant papier-mâché pig named Mr. Perks.
Like Goike, Jaye and Drolet were anti-tax ideologues, and both men would likely have applauded House Bill 5571, a Goike-sponsored measure that would bar voters in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties from ever renewing the special millage that they imposed on themselves in August 2012 to stem the Detroit Institute of Arts’ chronic operating losses.
http://www.freep.com/article/20140525/COL04/305250066/Detroit-bankruptcy-DIA-art
Tommy
@Schlemizel: I kid you not, I couldn’t make this up. I never met Carly Fiorina. But worked daily with people that did. I think it was 1995. I was on a conference call with her. She literally said she didn’t think the Internet was going to be that important. This was at a time when AT&T owned the telecom switch market and Cisco really wasn’t all that. They should have dominated. History would show that didn’t happen.
As to your direct comment, it is well known that AT&T and then Lucent missed the Internet. To catch up to Cisco they threw money out the window and bought every company they could. Like I bet yours. And as you said they cooked their books to do it. Cause they were paying billions in stock for these firms, not cash. So they had to have higher earnings each quarter to keep their stock up.
I had a front row seat for all of this and it wasn’t a pleasant experience to say the least.
Lee
I actually went to elementary school in Los Fresnos!!!
It is great to see it in the news. It is a really small town outside of Brownsville.
It’s other claim to fame is that if you got a speeding ticket on the way to South Padre, you probably got it in Los Fresnos. It is the last little town before South Padre so everyone would typically speed through.
Schlemizel
@Tommy:
Plenty of stupidity and sleaze to go around.
Cisco offered signing bonuses to every CCIE in our company – as much as 3 years salary . . . paid out 1 year at a time. It then promptly laid off the majority of them before they had to payout any of it. The first part of the plan was slimy but the second part was screwing with people livelihoods. So many of them were so “Cisco is God” kool-aid addicts that they didn’t realize they were just being screwed over to damage Lucent.
I don’t know Ms. Fiorina but my guess is if she does not have an MBA she has been greatly influenced by those who do. They are the source of all the greedy, short-sighted, mean-spirited, destructive business practices vexing the US today. I’d outlaw them if I could.
NotMax
@Tommy
The Bell Labs exhibit at the ’64 NY World’s Fair looks starship-futuristic still today. To gauge the scale, the floating wing part of the building (upper story) was 400 feet long and 200 feet wide.
On many visits to the fair, that exhibit was my insistent choice for first stop.
NotMax
@NotMax
Was a bit unclear. The building is not still there; it was removed when the fair closed. On its site today is a soccer pitch.
Tommy
@Schlemizel: Fiorina at the time was second in charge at Lucent. Then hired away to run HP into the ground. I recall the announcement she’d become CEO of HP and us all saying if anybody owns any of their stock they better sell.
BTW: I didn’t realize Cisco did that, but doesn’t surprise me in the least. The war was all out between Cisco and Lucent. And it was a war. It seemed like every day for a few years I’d walk into work and the headline was Cisco or Lucent paid $10 billion for this firm or that firm. We’d be scratching our heads unable to figure out what they had just bought. We came to the conclusion they were buying talent and not a product. Or maybe just to spite the other firm. From your input maybe we were right.
Tommy
@NotMax: My favorite thing was the initial sketch for an integrated transistor. It was done on a freaking bar napkin. Sometimes doing a brochure for a client is tough. Often it is harder to find good content then you might think. With Lucent and the Bell Labs brochure, the hard part was we had too much content. I am not overstating things when I say if you touch something that is electronic, well many of the things in it they invented.
rikyrah
The news media’s Hillary Clinton problem
By Paul Waldman May 26 at 3:21 pm
About a dozen Republican governors and senators are preparing to run for president in what promises to be a rip-roaring primary. On the Democratic side, on the other hand, a serious challenge to Hillary Clinton’s potential candidacy has yet to emerge. The Democrats who are considering a run — Martin O’Malley, Andrew Cuomo, Brian Schweitzer — are at the moment doing little more than considering. This is a remarkable political phenomenon, fascinating in its own way. But it presents a serious problem for the news media, because you can’t really report on what isn’t happening — at least not in the way political reporters are used to reporting.
Which is why we get things like this article in Politico today, which I think offers a taste of what’s to come as we move toward the 2016 campaign, a campaign that in some ways is already underway. “The ‘Wary of Hillary’ Democrats” reads the title, playing off “Ready for Hillary,” one of a number of organizations, pro and con, preparing for Clinton’s candidacy, and promising a report about distressed Democrats concerned that her early strength could prove disastrous for the party:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/05/26/the-news-medias-hillary-clinton-problem/
raven
Anyone else watching Silicon Valley on HBO? It’s killin me but there doesn’t seem to be much buzz.
Tommy
@rikyrah: I don’t dislike Hillary, but I might fall into the “Wary of Hillary” camp. I am just a lot more liberal then she is. Heck I am far to the left of Obama. But then again I’ve been voting since the 80s and I’ve not once been able to vote for somebody in the general election that I voted for in the primary. I’ve kind of come to the conclusion I’ll never be able to vote for somebody as liberal as myself in this lifetime. Sad, but true I fear.
MikeJ
@raven: It is absolutely accurate.
NotMax
@raven
Don’t receive HBO, but did see a couple of episodes elsewhere and just couldn’t get into it.
I suppose the in-jokes are hilarious to those who catch them, but found the episodes I saw acutely average. In fairness, am not in the target audience.
Tommy
@raven: Yes. I don’t normally LOL. I do watching that show. I’ve actually wondered why there isn’t more “buzz.” This is my gut. I think “geeks” really create a lot of the buzz on social media and other sites like Reddit. I wonder if this show cuts a little to hard to the bone. The show last week about the Tech Crunch conference was brutal. As somebody that has Tech Crunch in my feed reader, the scary thing is it wasn’t that far removed from reality.
raven
@Tommy: The mural of the aztec and the statue of liberty was awesome!
Tommy
@NotMax: I could easily see if you don’t work in that industry the jokes are hard to understand. Or just not funny. If you have ever sat in a conference room with start-ups, consultants from Arthur Andersen or KMPG, and hear all the BS that is thrown out, well this show is LOL funny.
My ad agency did work for some of the largest tech firms in the world. During the dot.com thing I sat through countless meetings with firms like those highlighted on the HBO show. We would hear they wanted a $20M ad campaign. We are like you don’t have a product. They’d say we need to “build our brand.”
We are like, dude we don’t think you understand the concept of a brand. A brand is a promise of performance. You have no product, therefore you have no promise of performance. We left tens of millions on the table with these firms. But we refused to work for any of them. Well we worked for one, my account, and the firm stiffed us on a $7M ad buy. My firm went bankrupt, cause we paid the bill to the WSJ and NYT. We paid our bills even if they didn’t.
Xantar
Can somebody link to a good explanation of what’s going on in Europe? What are the European parliamentary elections? Are those different from the individual countries’ elections? Why is it significant that a lot of Euro-skeptic parties have won?
All I know is Jean-Marie Le Pen scared me, and I’m seeing his daughter’s name way more than I’d like to.
rikyrah
GOP pols want 2014 ‘Contract with America’
By Manu Raju – 5/27/14 @ 8:43 AM ET
A faction of Republicans including Sen. Lindsey Graham is agitating for party leaders to unveil a policy manifesto in the midterm elections, detailing for voters what the GOP would attempt with a Senate majority its members are increasingly confident they’ll achieve.
Advocates of the strategy, which has triggered a closed-door debate in recent weeks among the party’s current 45 senators, say it would serve as a firm rejoinder to Democrats casting the GOP as the “party of no.” They say voters should know what they’d be getting by pulling the lever for Republicans in November.
With many election handicappers pegging a Senate takeover as a better than 50-50 proposition, the quandary of how specific they should get during the campaign underscores the difficulties Senate Republicans face transitioning from opposition party to governing party. While Republicans are in broad agreement over their principles, such as repealing Obamacare and opposing higher taxes, a new GOP majority would have its own challenges unifying behind an ambitious agenda.
The policy agenda would be modeled after the “Contract with America,” the 10-bill document that Republicans campaigned on en route to a historic takeover of the House in 1994.
http://mobile.politico.com/iphone/story/0514/107097.html
rikyrah
@Tommy:
I do dislike Hillary and am strong in the Wary of Hillary Camp. The whole ‘ inevitability’ thing bothers me. She doesn’t want to win; she wants to be coronated. The Democrats can do better. They can do better than her. I don’t believe for one moment that she’s the best the Dems can put forth.
I don’t trust her on foreign policy. There is absolutely nothing that I’ve liked, with regards to this President and foreign policy, that I believe would have been the same with Hillary. She’s not courageous. She never puts herself out there. She’s always bringing up the rear, after the ‘conventional wisdom’ has already been established.
And, I also don’t trust her on domestic policy. That the best her supporters can offer about her is that ‘ she’s better than any Republican’…AND?
We can do better.
rikyrah
@Xantar:
I think it’s a reaction to the austerity that has been shoved down Europe’s throats.
Tommy
@rikyrah: I am not as down on her as you seem to be, but not a raving fan either. At least on domestic policy I see her as way worse then Obama. She will give away everything to get something through the Congress to appear “moderate.” I could easily see her cave on SS, even the ACA.
rikyrah
@Tommy:
tell it
tell it
tell it.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah:
I saw Herb Jeffries in real life! Maybe 3 or 4 years ago. He was wheeled into a Los Angeles jazz program; not performing, just making an appearance with warm waves from his wheelchair.
Had never heard “Flamingo” or of his movies, but people were so thrilled to see him.
And he enjoyed the reception and being out and about.
RIP. Now to watch some of his flicks.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@rikyrah:
Then the proof of your cluelessness is completed.
OzarkHillbilly
Great pics: Sobering Images Show Famous World War I Battle Sites A Century Later
Amazing that 100 years later one can still see the trenches and shell holes. The pics are even beautiful. via LGM
aimai
@rikyrah: I doubt that. Hillary has always been way angrier and more of a fighter than Bill and she is significantly older than she was when she had to play supportive spouse. On the “she wants to be crowned” thing–there is no politician who wants to run a brutal, divisive, expensive race if they don’t have to. No one who wants to be President thinks they don’t deserve to be President and no one would spend the kind of money that these races take if they didn’t have to. I think thats a weird complaint. Believe me, if any of these other Dems (like O’Malley) had her name recognition and was the front runner they wouldn’t be jonesing for anythign but a coronation either.
I would be happy to vote for some other Dem but I am more concerned with holding the Presidency and strengthening the party in the House and Senate than I am with the egos of other politicians. If its on offer I’d be thrilled to see a Hillary/Castro ticket. I’d be happy to vote for any other Dem (except the asshole mountain west types) if they are on offer but I don’t care to put the party through a punishing, expensive, heavy lift to get people with little name recognition to the top. IF she can do it, I’m happy with Hillary for this round figuring that she paves the way for other dems in the future.
Xboxershorts
I think I should be president. Hell, I need the job now….
Suffern ACE
@rikyrah: it seems to be a rejection of labour neo-liberalism. It is also a re-alignment of conservative values in France. The conservatives could rally behind the notion that “we were an empire and still have an obligation to these immigrants if we ever want to be one again.” The party that won is basically saying “we don’t want those people here and we’re tired of you spending so much time worrying about the Greek economy.”
Chat Noir
@raven: My husband and I love it. Very, very funny, well-written, and well-acted.
Tommy
@rikyrah: I mean think back about two years ago. Obama is fighting with Congress over the debit ceiling. He literally is ready to accept $9 dollars in budget cuts for only $1 in tax increases. The Republicans wouldn’t take it. If getting 90% of what you want isn’t “winning” then I think they don’t understand winning. I fear Hillary would go even further. I hope I am wrong, but I don’t think I am.
M.C. Simon Milligan
Hello Navi? I’m almost as impressed by the reference as I am with the app.
gelfling545
@Annie Laurie
I sent you a garden pic on Sunday when you mentioned the paucity thereof but neglected to mention that I comment with this name. So, that was I.
ThresherK
I am going to be at the British Beer Co, Framingham, MA party tomorrow night (Wed 28th) from 7pm-9pm.
There is a random drawing I’m entered in for a trip to Newcastle-on-Tyne. The odds are 1 in 38.
I’m in that because I’ve already, through incredible haphazard neglect and not looking up who’s been suspended or broken an ankle, won a small prize in their English football pool, which I’m intending on converting into food and drink there. So if anyone shows up to lend me “draft lottery” style moral support, I plan on being able to buy you a round (but quantities are limited).
Let me know in this space.
Ben Cisco
One of my senators tried to go squid cloud on veterans groups – it ended badly.
rikyrah
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):
There are things that I’ve liked with regards to his foreign policy.,
And things I have not liked.
Let me make this clear: Everything that I have liked, I have no confidence that a President Hillary Clinton would have made the same decisions. I believe she would have made the opposite decisions.
Mnemosyne
@PurpleGirl:
I have a book on my Amazon wishlist called The Judgment of Paris, which is (in part) about the first exhibition of Impressionist paintings, led by Eduard Manet. We’re so used to seeing prints of Impressionist art that we don’t really realize how revolutionary and controversial it was when people like Manet and Cassatt were first painting it.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
We’re really enjoying it, but we’re both (consumer) computer geeks and we both work for giant corporations, so we can connect with it on those levels. Plus there are a lot of parallels with what you see in the entertainment industry, so we get the jokes on those levels, too. Erlich could easily be a low-level TV or movie producer trying to get ahead.
And, of course, a great cast who aren’t very well known but have done well in shows like “The Office” and “Party Down.”
skippy
@Ash Can: beat me to the punch, ash. very cool anne, we have met the enemy, and he is us
ThresherK
@Mnemosyne: “Party Down”?
Never had Starz, but geez that really hit the spot when they rebroadcast it on EsquireTV.
skippy
@raven: love it. mike judge is a brilliant yet highly under rated satirist of our times
RSA
@ET:
Me too. There’s some evidence that in thinking about STEM careers (especially technology), girls pay more attention than boys to the potential social impact of their work. This is a nice example.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
Ugh…apparently, the newest attempt at hijacking a necessary discussion is trying to use the ‘#yesallwomen’ discussion and warp it into a ‘#notallblackpeople/#yessallwhitepeople’ thing. As in ‘sure, not all black men are super scary megathugs bent on white destruction, but all white men have to be scared because you never known what black man might be the super scare megathug bent on killing you violently like an inferior savage’.
You know, forget the fact that a significant factor of the entire damn discussion is not just individual actions and attitudes but power structures and cultural/societal institutions putting pressure downward. But apparently to these assholes, there’s some massive power structure of scary black thuggery intimidating them ad nauseum.
Goblue72
@raven: It stars a Freaks & Geeks alum – how could it not be great?
Calouste
@OzarkHillbilly:
So Loonnelee is suggesting that Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, should return to her God-given rightful station in life as Queen of the Territories in Northern America?