I doubt that the Rams will keep 12 WRs, or 4 QBs. So I’d look for some cuts to be made there before the season starts.

Just a friendly football tip.

That’s how you make an argument. That was a good read.

wv wrote:

Anyway its not quite dark enough. Zooey, you are too light and optimistic about America.

No, sir.

I just still have the ability to block out everything in my head sometimes, and bash on, regardless.

It’s evident that the Democrats are not impeaching because their political calculations conclude they shouldn’t. Trump has committed several infractions worthy of impeachment on their own, let alone the sheer weight of all of them bundled together. No president has deserved impeachment more than Trump.

Furthermore, while Pelosi wrings her hands that only 43% (or whatever) of people favor impeachment hearings, she must have been made aware – in the discussions of political calculus – that 43% in favor of impeachment proceedings is double the support that impeachment hearings had in the case of either Nixon or Clinton. Impeaching Trump is a downhill journey.

Of course, impeachment would die in the Senate. McConnell might not even let it come to the floor. (I dunno if he could stop it, but he seems to have one hell of a lot more power than I ever knew a single senator could have). So…yes…the outcome would certainly not result in Trump leaving office early under compulsion of the Senate.

It appears that the goal is to just keep banging away at this weary horse that nobody wants to actually cross the finish line, perhaps in hopes of maintaining that cloud of dust surrounding the administration. That seems pointless to me, maybe even counterproductive. There is a steady stream of material coming out of the administration anyway, and many of those issues are more important to the public anyway than the collusion with Russia. So I don’t know why they don’t just flat out let Mueller go.

Democrats just suck. There are all kinds of things they could run on, messages they could send, but they don’t do it. Not because they are afraid of alienating the public by going too far (with healthcare, for example), but because they are afraid of alienating their donors. I mean…everybody here knows that perfectly well.

I didn’t watch any of the hearings because there was never any chance of anything new being revealed, and the only thing that could come out of it – at best – would be one of those Viral moments…that would come to my attention anyway because…viral. But unsurprisingly, nothing happened.

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The field you want is called Critical Race Theory.

Scholars important to the theory include Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, Richard Delgado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Camara Phyllis Jones, and Mari Matsuda.

That’s a different thing. Allied but different.

It’s welcome too. But BT was specifically asking about the genetics, and that’s an entirely different group of people doing that.

Your documentary (which you graciously copied for me) does address the genetics (Race: The Power of an Illusion).

He asked about race as a social construct. He’s says at the top he already agrees that race doesn’t exist genetically or biologically.

The field you want is called Critical Race Theory.

Scholars important to the theory include Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, Richard Delgado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Camara Phyllis Jones, and Mari Matsuda.

Derrick Bell, Race, Racism and American Law, first published in 73, is now in its 6th edition. I’ve never read it. Bell is considered one of the originators of CRT.

I started reading a book called “How to be Less Stupid About Race” (or something similar to that), but I’ve been interrupted by multiple activities, and set it aside a couple of weeks ago. Based on the first half of it, I can only say I have learned nothing I didn’t already know. I’m gonna finish it, though, as I am looking for new material for the unit I teach on race.

We had a GIGANTIC thread on race a few years ago, but I think the board has been reset since then.

My central spine for the race unit is a documentary called Race: The Power of an Illusion. It’s 3 episodes long, about an hour each. It is well worth watching if you can find it. It’s probably on youtube. The first episode is on science…i.e. there is no such thing as race. The second episode focuses on how we got where we are today when race wasn’t a big deal even a few hundred years ago. The third episode is the one that shows how racial constructs have systemically fucked over people of color through public policies. That one is indispensable for understanding the present, including – really – the MAGA people.

Okay, well. That was an insightful and interesting commentary. But I don’t think he made any case for the left “winning.” He gave no reason why communities of strength will lose out to communities of vulnerability. All he really did was argue that COV are more honest than COS – and that rings True to me – but I heard no reason to believe that honesty will win out over self-delusion.