Monday Open Thread January 18, 2016
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 01/18/2016 - 7:00amToday is Martin Luther King Day
18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later)
Today is Martin Luther King Day
18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later)
The economic crisis in Puerto Rico has reached crisis levels..
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Monday January 17, 1916
Brooklyn, New York - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Lectures on Limitation of Birth
Saturday's Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that the I. W. W. organizer, Gurley Flynn, addressed a Brooklyn audience Friday evening on the subject of birth control. As is usual when covering events conducted by members of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Eagle must first begin by mocking the event before briefly describing Miss Flynn's presentation:
FEE ROUTS AUDIENCE AT FLYNN SEX TALK
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Girl Orator's Listeners, Mostly Juveniles,
Exit When Money Is Sought.
-----About a half-hundred half-grown boys and girls with a sprinkling of adults listened with avid interest to a talk by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the I. W. W. leader, on the subject of limitation of births last night. The meeting was held in Plaza Hall, Grand and Havemeyer streets, with the avowed intention of teaching poor mothers to improve their economic condition. The interest continued until an effort was made to collect the 15-cent fee, with which it was hoped to defray the expenses of the lecture, when there was a rush to get out.
The lecturer scheduled for the evening was Mrs. Margaret H. Sanger, who is expounding her doctrine on the subject taken up by Miss Flynn in various parts of the country. She was ill, however, and could not keep her engagement. Dr. Frank Harris made an address touching upon the same subject from the view point of a medical practitioner. Dr. Joseph Slavitt presided.
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Del McCoury
In a widely remarked upon article for the online version of Foreign Policy last week, Harvard’s Stephen Walt asked a very good question. Why, Walt asked, are elite outlets like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times “allergic to realist views, given that realists have been (mostly) right about some very important issues, and the columnists they publish have often been wrong?”
I'm not particularly religious. I was raised Lutheran but have drifted towards Taoism as an adult. The words sing to me.
But I know religion plays a very important part in the lives of some, while others are offended by a mere scent of it.
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Tuesday January 16, 1906
Caldwell, Idaho - Harry Orchard Committed on Charge of Murder
From today's edition of The Wichita Daily Eagle:
ORCHARD TO STAND TRIAL
-----Committed On Charge of Murdering Ex-Governor Steunenberg.
-----Boise, Idaho, Jan. 15.-At Caldwell today Probate Judge Church committed Harry Orchard on the charge of having murdered ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg. The defense offered no testimony. The most important witness today was Andy Johnson, a Boise officer who talked with Orchard several times before and after his arrest. He had a collection of exhibits connected with the case.
Julian Steunenberg, son of the former governor, testified that a man whom he identified as Orchard, came to him or Wednesday before the murder and asked when his father would be home. He said he had a deal with his father for some sheep and was anxious to see him. The boy told the man his father would be back Friday night.
According to
theguardian
A string of polls over the past two weeks show that the once-independent Vermont senator is tied or in the lead in the two early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire, and all of a sudden, in striking distance of Hillary Clinton nationally.
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George, don't make no full moves. Please make it quick, fast and furious. Please. Fast and furious. You get ahead with the dot dash system. Oh, oh—dog biscuits! And when he is happy he doesn't get happy. No hobo and pobo I think he means the same thing. I am a pretty good pretzler. Don't put anyone near this check. In the olden days they waited and waited. I don't want harmony. I want harmony.
Two University of Washington researchers, working out of the Social Cognitive Development Lab on what is called the TransYouth Project have tired of the near constant alarm being raised about transgender children being spurred on...even "created"...by their parents. An example of such alarm resides in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, The Transgender Battle Line: Childhood.
So Kristine Olson and Lily Durwood have written a response, Are Parents Rushing to Turn Their Boys Into Girls?.