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1. BlogHer ‘08 registration info. San Fran. July 18-20. The Westin St. Francis. Wanna go?
2. Kike Like Me. A documentary by Jaime Kastner – are you related to the Kastners in Connecticut? Or the Josefsbergs in Miami? Anyway, Kike Like Me is not a title like “Black Like Me.” It would have to be “Nigger Like Me” to be analogous. Which isn’t what the book was called. I don’t really care whether you’re Jewish or not, Jaime, but I was called a kike when I was in junior high. I didn’t like it. And the kid got in trouble. I really don’t recommend it as a useful word. But, Jaime, that’s me.
3. For-profit charter school shenanigans – do Ohio taxpayers really not care? Some complain so much about the money in public schools, you’d think what Plunderbund notes would make the same Ohioans absolutely stark-raving insane. Our tax dollars, going to a for-profit that is now owned by probably primarily non-Ohioans, influencing and directing what the company does – with Ohio students and money.
4. Potential for-profit charter school shenanigans in LA? Read more about Steve Barr here and here.
5. Dave, you are wrong to suggest that Obama needed to or should have changed his name when he entered the race for the presidential nomination. Obama doesn’t need to “fix” his name like people “fix” their teeth. What are you ingesting?
6. I haven’t had time to give this wrestling match it’s fair share of time, but please, if you haven’t read Dave Hazinski going through a Dick Feagleresque review of blogs and journalism (the piece is called, “Unfettered citizen journalism is too risky” – and he posits that journalists have no rules but they should develop some and subject all citizen journalists to them) and Dan Gillmor’s takedown of Hazinski (titled, “Needed: Regulation to Prevent Journalists-Turned-Professors from Embarrassing Themselves), you need to stop what you’re doing and read both now.
7. Help East Cleveland get a playground grant.
8. Bob Stark, Israel, $3-4 billion dollars. One source I have in Israel tells me that rumors say Safed is a poor town that’s been riddled by corruption. I visited there in the 1980s – it’s reputation was of an artsy, religious enclave. I guess we’ll have to watch and see.
9. This is why I could never vote for Mike Huckabee: he’s hired the Family Research Council’s communications maven. Though I guess that’s better than bringing on another FRC person: Ken Blackwell.
10. The title of this article says it all: Mom who homeschools kids elected chair of SC public school board. Wow.
11. What’s the state of publishing in Cleveland? realNEO wants to know.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:04 pm December 17th, 2007 in Remains of the Day
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Well, in an ideal world, Hillary wouldn’t need to do botox either, but there you are.
If I was managing his campaign, that would be my advice. If he wants to keep it real, well kudos to him, but it’s still going to hurt him down the stretch.
Dave – I agree with only part of that.
First – Botox and any person does have some root in how women (or men for that matter) think others see them – Hollywood, looking young, bla bla bla. But it’s also done to make you feel better about yourself – so that when you look in the mirror, you don’t feel depressed – though of course that “depression” has external roots.
But, with the name change – you aren’t recommending it in relation to anything having to do with Obama’s embarrassment are you? You’re suggesting it because of how others view it/hear it/think about it when then see or hear it.
That’s very different, though closer to the Botox reason based on how others react to aging appearances.
No one should be changing their name because of the prejudice of other people. I went through this myself when I got married – my maiden name is Miller. I was reluctant to change it to Zimon because I knew it would sound more Jewish. I realized that that just wasn’t a good enough reason – how others might change in reaction to me because I have a more Jewish-sounding last name. Remember, I went through a Catholic univ. as a blond with no NYC accent and an Amish last name. There were friends, people I knew for three years, who didn’t know I was Jewish until there was a scheduling scuffle over a Jewish holiday and I became very outspoken.
So – again – I would ask you – instead of writing about how, it’s just so awful it is this way but that’s what he should do, why aren’t you advocating that he use himself as an example of someone who won’t change it and makes it emblematic?
I don’t know if you followed Subodh Chandra’s campaign in the Dem AG primary, but he embraced his name. He didn’t win, but it wasn’t because of his name.
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Dave wrote:
“And is Bob Kerrey being serious? I doubt it. Obama would be almost impossible to elect in a general election for exactly the reasons that Bob Kerrey listed as huge Obama strengths, in addition to being new and untested.”
So you’re saying the country is too full of bigots, haters and fear mongers to elect Obama? Just come out and say it then!