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Russell Johnson Meets the Rebbe
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I do know what I’d miss if I wasn’t where I’ve been when I’m missing what I can’t believe I’ve been missing. These have been my choices.
Nevertheless, I missed Charles Krauthammer at the sold out AIPAC event last night (600 people, nearly twice what the event usually draws I’m told, but I still get to say that I’ve never supported anything sponsored by AIPAC) and tonight, I’m missing this:
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Northeast Ohio Chapter and the Case School of Law Chapter present “The changing face of church & state: How religious voices are influencing public policy” from 6-8 at Case’s Thwing Center 2nd floor ballroom, 11111 Euclid Ave. Panelists will include Rabbi Richard A. Block; Prof. Dena S. Davis of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; ACLU of Ohio litigation coordinator Gary Daniels; the Anti-Defamation League’s Bettysue Feuer; Pastor Russell Johnson of the Ohio Restoration Project; and Pastor Max Rodas. Reception will follow this free, public event.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that perhaps newly minted Plundercrewman and 1L at CWRU, Jerid (aka “plunderkinder” – love that, Chris Baker), formerly of the Studebaker campaign and Live From Dayton/Blue Collar Baby, is there.
But if not, hopefully someone who was, MSM included, will write about it. YouTubing it would be even more divine, pun intended.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:20 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Welcome back to Jeff Hess’s Have Coffee Will Write.
Congrats to you and Terry for its resurrection.
Hey! Think of it this way: For us HCWW followers, it’s like the second coming! Who knew!?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:15 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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6
Download Windows Vista Release Candidate 1
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Courtesy of browsing Forty Faces.
I’m a Mac user now so I won’t be trying this. But if others do or have, be sure to come back and deposit comments. (Here’s a definition of a release candidate. It’s all Greek to me but sounds plausible.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:50 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Strickland to blog on Faithful Democrats
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From Hotline on Call:
Christian Democrats are no longer losing their religion. Instead, they’re trying to find it online. Internet Christian Community FaithfulDemocrats.com went live yesterday with the goal of re-energizing religious progressives. The site features left-leaning leaders discussing and blogging on faith and public policy. There’s an action center to direct volunteers and donors to campaigns, provide talking points and a campaign blog.
Amy Sullivan, an analyst on religion and politics who contributes to the site’s campaign blog, said the goal is highlight relgious efforts by Democrats in state campaigns, such as reaching out to Catholic voters. “Because the national party now understands it needs to reach out to religious voters, but it doesn’t have a clue how to do it and hasn’t invested any resources at all in doing that,” Sullivan said. “But the state parties are way ahead.”
The first featured politico is Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bob Casey, with the following candidates ready and waiting for faithful fundraising: Ted Strickland, Harold Ford, Claire McCaskill, John Spratt, Kathleen Sebelius and Heath Shuler. Ex-DNC chair David Wilhelm and Chicago-based Executive Director Jesse Lava conceived the site, which has received 50,000 unique hits so far. Other participants include Sens. Tim Johnson, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Reps. Rosa DeLauro, James Clyburn and Gov. Tim Kaine, with Paul Begala, Bill Press, Minyon Moore, Mara Vanderslice, Mike McCurry, Cynthia Rotunno, and Wilhelm on the strategy team.
[my emphasis]
I actually think he should repeat it, now that more people are following and looking for direction as to who should be Ohio’s next governor.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:26 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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No-time Noe? I don’t THINK so
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Jon Richardson has got to be kidding.
Tom Noe, who also is at the center of the state’s investment scandal, is to be sentenced next week in U.S. District Court for violating federal election laws. He faces from two to five years in prison on three charges, including exceeding federal campaign contribution limits.
Prosecutors want Noe to serve at least two years in prison, but they indicated Tuesday they would like more time added because Noe was involved in a “systematic and pervasive corruption of the federal and state election process.”
Noe’s lawyer Jon Richardson responded on Wednesday that Noe has been publicly humiliated and that probation and community service are a more appropriate punishment.
“Leniency is not just possible, it is appropriate,” Richardson said.
What planet do these people come from?
Read the story here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:22 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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6
Employers pay extra to foster parents
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As a follow up on this post, here’s more from Employee Benefit News:
About 11% of employers offer assistance to foster parents this year, up from 6% last year, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. The benefit is more common at large firms than at smaller businesses. It’s also more common in the finance and service industries than in other industries.
And some other stats on foster care, nationally:
Most foster children enter the foster care system because of neglect, physical abuse or sexual abuse by a birth parent. An estimated 518,000 children were in foster care across the United States in 2004, and about 23% of them were available for adoption, according to the U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
More than half of foster children return to their birth parents. For the other half, authorities have revoked the birth parent’s rights, often because of abandonment, abuse, neglect, mental illness, alcohol or drug addiction, incarceration, violence against family members or failure to provide support. That’s when the child becomes available for adoption.
About 55% of children who exited foster care in 2003 were reunited with birth parents or primary caretakers, 18% were adopted, 15% went to live with a relative or guardian, 8% were emancipated and 4% had other outcomes, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau and Administration for Children and Families.
The median age of the children in foster care is almost 11 years. About 18% of foster children stayed in foster care less than one month, while 32% stayed between one and 11 months, and 20% stayed between 12 and 23 months.
The other 30% remained in foster care two years or longer. Nearly 10% of children who entered foster care in fiscal 2002 were re-entering the system within 12 months of a previous discharge, the agencies report.
Good news? Bad news?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:21 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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6
Yo ho! Yo ho! The Poker Life for me!
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To help me play out my fantasy of being a freelance writer and journalist, I subscribe to numerous ezines and newsletters about the publishing industry. Many are daily (Publisher’s Lunch), some are weekly (Funds for Writers) and a few even come every couple of hours (Media Post missives). Then I have a shelf of items like The Writer’s Market, which is a two and a half inch thick compendium of all the publications I’ll never pitch because I’m too busy also trying to live out the fantasy of being Super Mom (or, as my oldest child calls me, Stupor Mom). Given that The Writer’s Market costs nearly $50 last time I checked, when I do take the time to browse markets (and that’s been a long, long time), I end up feeling overwhelmed as the list of the possibilities grows and grows and I realize, ha! I’m never going to get to any of those.
But still, I dream.
And so it is, as I dream, that I open my regularly received emails from Media Post Publications called Magazine Rack. You can receive this email about featured pubs too, or you can check out the blog, which carries the same info.
As if to say they knew that Ohio Learn and Earn was going to make it, yesterday, Magazine Rack profiled Poker Life. And oh, what a job Larry Dobrow (with whom I’ve exchanged a couple of emails now and then with comments on his reviews) did:
A publication dubbed Poker Life necessarily must fill its pages with any number of “see, there was this one time, when I was all-in and I caught a club on the flop, then the waitress brought me a glass of tomato juice…” stories, none of which stimulates the imagination more than a lecture on grain subsidies. Additionally, the Las Vegas fascination among twerps who took “Swingers” way, way too seriously endures in its pages, what with yet another “Best of Vegas” feature.
The mag devotes too much space to a Q&A with some sublime piece of ass–I’m sorry, but I don’t know how else to describe her–who “already auditioned with Scorsese and De Niro.” She didn’t get the part and the movie in question was made 12 years ago, mind you, but the audition itself surely qualifies her as a face to watch. The “Ante Up” piece on chanteuse Cassandra Wilson tackily segues from poker to Hurricane Katrina in a single sentence, while the “Vices” item on topless pools (in Las Vegas, naturally) comes across as edgy as a spork.
I also worry about Poker Life’s pluggy ways. No, I don’t believe an ad/edit line truly exists in any title that accepts dollars from marketers. But gosh, don’t be so brazen about trampling all over it. On the scale of shamelessness, the front-of-book “stories” about gambling Web sites and stores rank only slightly below the “Toys” plug for running shoes (judging by the photographic evidence at hand, poker fiends don’t make exercise much of a priority in their lives). How’s this for a wimpily worded blurb: “The $12.50 ride on Manhattan Express at New York New York proves more fun than even the wildest New York City cab ride.” Wow, I didn’t know that machine-operated roller coasters could be whacked out on crystal meth, too.
But don’t let me spoil the laughs for you. Read the whole thing for yourself here.
And Todd Hoffman, if you’re reading? I haven’t a clue if it’s legal or not, but if you’re going to pass out anything on election day in November? I’m always in need of sample copies before I pitch a publication.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:01 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Normally, I don’t read big box blogs but Renee in Ohio linked to this DailyKos diary about Scholastic Books’ connection to an ABC docudrama that will on 9/10 and 9/11. It’s recommended viewing for students in grades 9-12, and their parents. The Kos post has over 400 comments as of this post’s writing.
I don’t have kids in those grades, so I won’t be solicited about it.
What do people think about the Scholastic-ABC connection? Helpful? Harmful? Illegal? Should be illegal? Scars and mars Scholastic’s reputation? Does it matter that it’s got to do with 9/11, or is it distasteful regardless of the docudrama’s subject?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:32 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 12 Comments
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6
Russell Johnson Meets the Rebbe
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I do know what I’d miss if I wasn’t where I’ve been when I’m missing what I can’t believe I’ve been missing. These have been my choices.
Nevertheless, I missed Charles Krauthammer at the sold out AIPAC event last night (600 people, nearly twice what the event usually draws I’m told, but I still get to say that I’ve never supported anything sponsored by AIPAC) and tonight, I’m missing this:
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Northeast Ohio Chapter and the Case School of Law Chapter present “The changing face of church & state: How religious voices are influencing public policy” from 6-8 at Case’s Thwing Center 2nd floor ballroom, 11111 Euclid Ave. Panelists will include Rabbi Richard A. Block; Prof. Dena S. Davis of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; ACLU of Ohio litigation coordinator Gary Daniels; the Anti-Defamation League’s Bettysue Feuer; Pastor Russell Johnson of the Ohio Restoration Project; and Pastor Max Rodas. Reception will follow this free, public event.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that perhaps newly minted Plundercrewman and 1L at CWRU, Jerid (aka “plunderkinder” – love that, Chris Baker), formerly of the Studebaker campaign and Live From Dayton/Blue Collar Baby, is there.
But if not, hopefully someone who was, MSM included, will write about it. YouTubing it would be even more divine, pun intended.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:20 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
Welcome back to Jeff Hess’s Have Coffee Will Write.
Congrats to you and Terry for its resurrection.
Hey! Think of it this way: For us HCWW followers, it’s like the second coming! Who knew!?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:15 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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6
More on father coaches who brawl
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Before you decide that the hit was tame, ask yourself a couple of questions:
Would you have done that, no matter how trivial it looks to you?
Would you want your husband or wife to do that to a kid? Would you want kids and parents to see you or your husband or wife or parent of your child do that? If you’re a grandparent and that man is your son, how would you feel?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:58 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 10 Comments
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6
Download Windows Vista Release Candidate 1
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Courtesy of browsing Forty Faces.
I’m a Mac user now so I won’t be trying this. But if others do or have, be sure to come back and deposit comments. (Here’s a definition of a release candidate. It’s all Greek to me but sounds plausible.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:50 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
Strickland to blog on Faithful Democrats
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From Hotline on Call:
Christian Democrats are no longer losing their religion. Instead, they’re trying to find it online. Internet Christian Community FaithfulDemocrats.com went live yesterday with the goal of re-energizing religious progressives. The site features left-leaning leaders discussing and blogging on faith and public policy. There’s an action center to direct volunteers and donors to campaigns, provide talking points and a campaign blog.
Amy Sullivan, an analyst on religion and politics who contributes to the site’s campaign blog, said the goal is highlight relgious efforts by Democrats in state campaigns, such as reaching out to Catholic voters. “Because the national party now understands it needs to reach out to religious voters, but it doesn’t have a clue how to do it and hasn’t invested any resources at all in doing that,” Sullivan said. “But the state parties are way ahead.”
The first featured politico is Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bob Casey, with the following candidates ready and waiting for faithful fundraising: Ted Strickland, Harold Ford, Claire McCaskill, John Spratt, Kathleen Sebelius and Heath Shuler. Ex-DNC chair David Wilhelm and Chicago-based Executive Director Jesse Lava conceived the site, which has received 50,000 unique hits so far. Other participants include Sens. Tim Johnson, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Reps. Rosa DeLauro, James Clyburn and Gov. Tim Kaine, with Paul Begala, Bill Press, Minyon Moore, Mara Vanderslice, Mike McCurry, Cynthia Rotunno, and Wilhelm on the strategy team.
[my emphasis]
I actually think he should repeat it, now that more people are following and looking for direction as to who should be Ohio’s next governor.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:26 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
No-time Noe? I don’t THINK so
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Jon Richardson has got to be kidding.
Tom Noe, who also is at the center of the state’s investment scandal, is to be sentenced next week in U.S. District Court for violating federal election laws. He faces from two to five years in prison on three charges, including exceeding federal campaign contribution limits.
Prosecutors want Noe to serve at least two years in prison, but they indicated Tuesday they would like more time added because Noe was involved in a “systematic and pervasive corruption of the federal and state election process.”
Noe’s lawyer Jon Richardson responded on Wednesday that Noe has been publicly humiliated and that probation and community service are a more appropriate punishment.
“Leniency is not just possible, it is appropriate,” Richardson said.
What planet do these people come from?
Read the story here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:22 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
Yo ho! Yo ho! The Poker Life for me!
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To help me play out my fantasy of being a freelance writer and journalist, I subscribe to numerous ezines and newsletters about the publishing industry. Many are daily (Publisher’s Lunch), some are weekly (Funds for Writers) and a few even come every couple of hours (Media Post missives). Then I have a shelf of items like The Writer’s Market, which is a two and a half inch thick compendium of all the publications I’ll never pitch because I’m too busy also trying to live out the fantasy of being Super Mom (or, as my oldest child calls me, Stupor Mom). Given that The Writer’s Market costs nearly $50 last time I checked, when I do take the time to browse markets (and that’s been a long, long time), I end up feeling overwhelmed as the list of the possibilities grows and grows and I realize, ha! I’m never going to get to any of those.
But still, I dream.
And so it is, as I dream, that I open my regularly received emails from Media Post Publications called Magazine Rack. You can receive this email about featured pubs too, or you can check out the blog, which carries the same info.
As if to say they knew that Ohio Learn and Earn was going to make it, yesterday, Magazine Rack profiled Poker Life. And oh, what a job Larry Dobrow (with whom I’ve exchanged a couple of emails now and then with comments on his reviews) did:
A publication dubbed Poker Life necessarily must fill its pages with any number of “see, there was this one time, when I was all-in and I caught a club on the flop, then the waitress brought me a glass of tomato juice…” stories, none of which stimulates the imagination more than a lecture on grain subsidies. Additionally, the Las Vegas fascination among twerps who took “Swingers” way, way too seriously endures in its pages, what with yet another “Best of Vegas” feature.
The mag devotes too much space to a Q&A with some sublime piece of ass–I’m sorry, but I don’t know how else to describe her–who “already auditioned with Scorsese and De Niro.” She didn’t get the part and the movie in question was made 12 years ago, mind you, but the audition itself surely qualifies her as a face to watch. The “Ante Up” piece on chanteuse Cassandra Wilson tackily segues from poker to Hurricane Katrina in a single sentence, while the “Vices” item on topless pools (in Las Vegas, naturally) comes across as edgy as a spork.
I also worry about Poker Life’s pluggy ways. No, I don’t believe an ad/edit line truly exists in any title that accepts dollars from marketers. But gosh, don’t be so brazen about trampling all over it. On the scale of shamelessness, the front-of-book “stories” about gambling Web sites and stores rank only slightly below the “Toys” plug for running shoes (judging by the photographic evidence at hand, poker fiends don’t make exercise much of a priority in their lives). How’s this for a wimpily worded blurb: “The $12.50 ride on Manhattan Express at New York New York proves more fun than even the wildest New York City cab ride.” Wow, I didn’t know that machine-operated roller coasters could be whacked out on crystal meth, too.
But don’t let me spoil the laughs for you. Read the whole thing for yourself here.
And Todd Hoffman, if you’re reading? I haven’t a clue if it’s legal or not, but if you’re going to pass out anything on election day in November? I’m always in need of sample copies before I pitch a publication.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:01 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
Employers pay extra to foster parents
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As a follow up on this post, here’s more from Employee Benefit News:
About 11% of employers offer assistance to foster parents this year, up from 6% last year, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. The benefit is more common at large firms than at smaller businesses. It’s also more common in the finance and service industries than in other industries.
And some other stats on foster care, nationally:
Most foster children enter the foster care system because of neglect, physical abuse or sexual abuse by a birth parent. An estimated 518,000 children were in foster care across the United States in 2004, and about 23% of them were available for adoption, according to the U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
More than half of foster children return to their birth parents. For the other half, authorities have revoked the birth parent’s rights, often because of abandonment, abuse, neglect, mental illness, alcohol or drug addiction, incarceration, violence against family members or failure to provide support. That’s when the child becomes available for adoption.
About 55% of children who exited foster care in 2003 were reunited with birth parents or primary caretakers, 18% were adopted, 15% went to live with a relative or guardian, 8% were emancipated and 4% had other outcomes, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau and Administration for Children and Families.
The median age of the children in foster care is almost 11 years. About 18% of foster children stayed in foster care less than one month, while 32% stayed between one and 11 months, and 20% stayed between 12 and 23 months.
The other 30% remained in foster care two years or longer. Nearly 10% of children who entered foster care in fiscal 2002 were re-entering the system within 12 months of a previous discharge, the agencies report.
Good news? Bad news?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:21 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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6
Russell Johnson Meets the Rebbe
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I do know what I’d miss if I wasn’t where I’ve been when I’m missing what I can’t believe I’ve been missing. These have been my choices.
Nevertheless, I missed Charles Krauthammer at the sold out AIPAC event last night (600 people, nearly twice what the event usually draws I’m told, but I still get to say that I’ve never supported anything sponsored by AIPAC) and tonight, I’m missing this:
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Northeast Ohio Chapter and the Case School of Law Chapter present “The changing face of church & state: How religious voices are influencing public policy” from 6-8 at Case’s Thwing Center 2nd floor ballroom, 11111 Euclid Ave. Panelists will include Rabbi Richard A. Block; Prof. Dena S. Davis of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; ACLU of Ohio litigation coordinator Gary Daniels; the Anti-Defamation League’s Bettysue Feuer; Pastor Russell Johnson of the Ohio Restoration Project; and Pastor Max Rodas. Reception will follow this free, public event.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that perhaps newly minted Plundercrewman and 1L at CWRU, Jerid (aka “plunderkinder” – love that, Chris Baker), formerly of the Studebaker campaign and Live From Dayton/Blue Collar Baby, is there.
But if not, hopefully someone who was, MSM included, will write about it. YouTubing it would be even more divine, pun intended.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:20 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
Jeff Hess must have coffee, because he’s writing again
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Welcome back to Jeff Hess’s Have Coffee Will Write.
Congrats to you and Terry for its resurrection.
Hey! Think of it this way: For us HCWW followers, it’s like the second coming! Who knew!?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:15 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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6
The Capitol Blog: by a journalist who…blogs
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Is he or isn’t he (a blogger that is)? (Yes, I’m taunting. You don’t grow up between two brothers and not learn a few survival techniques.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:00 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Normally, I don’t read big box blogs but Renee in Ohio linked to this DailyKos diary about Scholastic Books’ connection to an ABC docudrama that will on 9/10 and 9/11. It’s recommended viewing for students in grades 9-12, and their parents. The Kos post has over 400 comments as of this post’s writing.
I don’t have kids in those grades, so I won’t be solicited about it.
What do people think about the Scholastic-ABC connection? Helpful? Harmful? Illegal? Should be illegal? Scars and mars Scholastic’s reputation? Does it matter that it’s got to do with 9/11, or is it distasteful regardless of the docudrama’s subject?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:32 pm September 6th, 2006 in Politics | 12 Comments
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