Lawyer types! A question! America First Legal (whomever they are) has filed a bar complaint against NY Attorney General Letitia James following a DOJ criminal referral.
What is a "bar complaint"?
Have you ever had a bar complaint filed against you? What did it entail?
Good neighborhoods are the ones near the schools that have more than X% proficiency in math/reading.
It's purely a coincidence that the lion's share of these happen to be near single family homes with well manicured lawns and gardens and not in walking distance of non-residential real estate.
For what it's worth, I think that the DNC Chair has it right. If David Hogg wants to work for people who are aspirants instead of actuals, he should do that from his PAC rather than from his official capacity as Vice-Chair.
Though it *IS* funny that they're hitting him on the cis-het white male front. Didn't he go to Harvard? He should check his privilege!
Maribou and I saw Novocaine on a date and I was surprised by how deftly it handled its absolutely absurd premise. Graphic violence and gore, but it was a live-action cartoon. I laughed as I watched through my fingers.
The Monkey was a short story from 1980's "Skeleton Crew" and I read that back in my teenage years after surreptitiously sneaking it out of the library. It was one of the scariest short stories I'd ever read to that point and some of the imagery haunts me even yet. NO WONDER I WASN'T ALLOWED TO READ STEPHEN KING.
I'm glad they finally made a movie out of that one. I'm sure that there were dozens who tried to get a movie made out of it but no script was able to generate that whole "grab more of the blanket" feeling that the short story pulled off. Going for comedy is probably the only way it could have gotten across the finish line, I guess.
Pragmatically, I don't think that publicly funded child care will work.
Specifically, it seems that we've got yet another iron triangle and people are saying something to the effect of "I want exactly what we have now, only cheaper".
The high quality day care you get at the $300/week place? We want that, only for $100/week.
All of the joys of sitting in a circle singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts", all of the costs of being given a seat on the couch and Cocomelon and Bluey marathons.
I'm pretty sure that the problem schools aren't the ones with the good teachers.
I went to very good schools and had very good teachers.
When people complain about the school districts that have 39% of students at proficiency (OR LOWER!!!), they're probably not thinking of the schools with the good teachers.
I've mentioned Marie Gluesenkamp Perez before and I will most assuredly mention her again. She's capable of holding down a blue seat in a red district in Warshington and she's capable of speaking like she's not online.
(She also absorbs an animal spirit from the forest early in the vid.)
The whole abundance/pragmatism thing that seems to be infecting parts of the Dems should be welcomed. This rejection of the perfect over the achievable is downright refreshing.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
Lawyer types! A question! America First Legal (whomever they are) has filed a bar complaint against NY Attorney General Letitia James following a DOJ criminal referral.
What is a "bar complaint"?
Have you ever had a bar complaint filed against you? What did it entail?
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Good neighborhoods are the ones near the schools that have more than X% proficiency in math/reading.
It's purely a coincidence that the lion's share of these happen to be near single family homes with well manicured lawns and gardens and not in walking distance of non-residential real estate.
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We talked about it a little bit last week.
For what it's worth, I think that the DNC Chair has it right. If David Hogg wants to work for people who are aspirants instead of actuals, he should do that from his PAC rather than from his official capacity as Vice-Chair.
Though it *IS* funny that they're hitting him on the cis-het white male front. Didn't he go to Harvard? He should check his privilege!
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Blue Prince”
This game devoured my Sunday and I thought about it all day at work yesterday and all during Raw.
I can't wait to play it some more tonight.
Seriously. IT IS GOOD.
I've watched my goals change two or three times since Day 1. I have an open notepad file on my second screen so I can take notes.
I make grids and put Xs in the boxes.
On “Pop Culture Quarterly Report: Quarter One 2025”
Maribou and I saw Novocaine on a date and I was surprised by how deftly it handled its absolutely absurd premise. Graphic violence and gore, but it was a live-action cartoon. I laughed as I watched through my fingers.
The Monkey was a short story from 1980's "Skeleton Crew" and I read that back in my teenage years after surreptitiously sneaking it out of the library. It was one of the scariest short stories I'd ever read to that point and some of the imagery haunts me even yet. NO WONDER I WASN'T ALLOWED TO READ STEPHEN KING.
I'm glad they finally made a movie out of that one. I'm sure that there were dozens who tried to get a movie made out of it but no script was able to generate that whole "grab more of the blanket" feeling that the short story pulled off. Going for comedy is probably the only way it could have gotten across the finish line, I guess.
On “Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex”
Great. Another short dude who uptalks and complains that nobody wants to date him.
We have enough of those, thanks.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
The North Side schools are the ones that have high proficiency rates and large numbers of students who go on to college/university.
The South Side schools are the ones more representative of the country as a whole.
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Yeah, if we have day care work on a voucher/charter/private school model, it'll work as well as the schools in North Colorado Springs.
"What about the schools in South Colorado Springs?"
"HOW DARE YOU"
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Trudeauism without Trudeau.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
Well, they arrested the guy who stole Kristi Noem's purse. It's allegedly an undocumented visitor.
This, of course, has resulted in Truthers.
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Yes. This will be fixed by hiring more administrators with intangible goals and zero deliverables.
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You guys need to do a better job of normalizing roommates.
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It's one thing to say such a thing in North Colorado Springs.
Quite another to say it in some parts of Baltimore.
Where are we saying it?
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I strongly dispute that 10 dollar a day daycare is a UMC welfare issue
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Pragmatically, I don't think that publicly funded child care will work.
Specifically, it seems that we've got yet another iron triangle and people are saying something to the effect of "I want exactly what we have now, only cheaper".
The high quality day care you get at the $300/week place? We want that, only for $100/week.
All of the joys of sitting in a circle singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts", all of the costs of being given a seat on the couch and Cocomelon and Bluey marathons.
"
I'm pretty sure that the problem schools aren't the ones with the good teachers.
I went to very good schools and had very good teachers.
When people complain about the school districts that have 39% of students at proficiency (OR LOWER!!!), they're probably not thinking of the schools with the good teachers.
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You should primary her with someone who won't win against the Republican.
That'll show her.
It'll be like the Harris/Palestine thing, only for Congress.
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You don't care about childcare? HOW DARE YOU
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I've mentioned Marie Gluesenkamp Perez before and I will most assuredly mention her again. She's capable of holding down a blue seat in a red district in Warshington and she's capable of speaking like she's not online.
Check this out.
(She also absorbs an animal spirit from the forest early in the vid.)
The whole abundance/pragmatism thing that seems to be infecting parts of the Dems should be welcomed. This rejection of the perfect over the achievable is downright refreshing.
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"Pragmatic argument."
"HOW DARE YOU"
"Statement of the importance of achievable goals."
"HOW DARE YOU"
lather, rinse, repeat
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Let teachers teach. Pay them well. Give students the additional support. Stop trying to meet production quotas and quantitative rubrics.
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It's a failure to regurgitate on specific tests in a specific way?
It seems to me that that particular criticism indicates that 39% is too high.
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Play with the knobs on the website!
"At or above basic" and "At or above proficient" are both on there.
When it comes to Grade 4 match, at or above proficient for the national number is 39%. (Insert "that's practically half!" joke here.)
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Wait, you're describing a program where students who haven't earned the right to advance don't advance until they have the required skills to advance.
Except you're describing it as bad.
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Goodness! That's quite a claim!