The Evening Blues - 9-21-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/21/2015 - 1:25pmHey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Piedmont blues singer and guitarist Blind Willie Mctell. Enjoy!
Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
Diaries
Monday Morning Open Thread
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 09/21/2015 - 7:00amI might not be here when this posts, but I'll get here eventually
Last week's instalment reminded me of a long deferred project to write a series at the GOS about "Power to the People". Not just a slogan, that was a real goal, and while a goal, also a means to an end, or to many ends, which, taken together, would attain power for the people, adhering in the people, and serving the people. Circular, but in a meaningful way.
Needs more Rooster
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 5:00pmHowlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster ( Chess )
Duke University Hospital opens new gender clinic
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 1:52pm
Duke University Health System of Durham, NC has created a new clinic to treat children and teems with gender identity and development issues.
The clinic will address young people who are transgender or intersex as well as those who may have genital development or puberty issues.
The link above provides some background through the story of Hunter Schafer, one of Duke's patients.
Open Thread 9-20-15
Submitted by JtC on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 8:30amGood morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Poco.
U.N.: Paris Climate Summit Pledges Won’t Avoid Warming
The greenhouse gas emission cuts being pledged by the world’s nations will fall short of restricting global warming to 2°C, the U.N.’s climate chief and UK government sources have warned.
EEOC Intervenes in Louisiana
Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 2:57pmJudge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District Court of Louisiana has allowed the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene in Tristan Broussard's federal lawsuit against First Tower Loan, LLC.
Imagine a jail teaching modern agriculture to inmates.
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 12:37pmOnce upon a time various bleeding hearts tried to promote the idea that prisons weren't really merely punitive, or shouldn't be at any rate, nor mere retribution. Oh no, they expounded, they should be (and some of the more deluded claimed they actually were) rehabilitative. For a while there were efforts made to actually infuse a tiny slice of rehabilitative endeavors into our jails and prisons.
Open Sesame 09/19/15
Submitted by hecate on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 5:23amFrom a 1986 exchange between Bob Dylan and a Mister Jones:
Mister Jones: I was looking through your lyrics. There aren't very many political songs in there.
Bob Dylan: I don't know which of my songs was ever political.
MJ: "Masters Of War" is.
US to press Sexual Rights at UN 2030 Conference
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 09/18/2015 - 7:10pmSexual Rights? Suuuure. Once again the US is going to jump out into the global arena telling everybody else to adopt policies that it has no intention whatsoever of ever adopting itself.
Per this article: America's small change on 'sexual rights' could have big impact - CSMonitor.com we're now going to champion “sexual rights” in discussions of human rights and global development. Bwahahahaha.
For what we are telling others to do as we say and not as we do, see below.
The New White Man's Burden and the value of a life
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 09/18/2015 - 6:36pmIn February 1899, British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands."
