I scanned the list of historians against Trump and didn't find as many history professors as I would have thought. Out of 786 signatories, there are 244 professors, with 64 of these emeritus/emerita almost exclusively professors, as well as 78 who are retired, some of which are professors. Many professors are not history professors, and the list contains attorneys, environmental mangers, social workers and writers. (This may be because the original list was opened to people to join later, but the first 771 names are in alphabetical order, suggesting they were original signatories)
There also appear to be few history professors from elite schools, and without wanting to disparage any college or professor by name, I've not heard of many of these colleges. All in all, it seems like a fairly marginal enterprise.
I found in 1998 NYTimes piece about the change in Illinois law, which indicates one-third of suburban voters punched the straight-Republican ballot, but the legislation was directed at further weakening the Chicago machine:
'It doesn't take very long to make a single punch, and if a voter was in the booth taking his time, the precinct captain would make note of it,'' he said. ''Questions got asked. Sometimes garbage didn't get picked up.''
It was part of the tight-fisted control that extended even to campaign volunteers. Milton Rakove, the late political science professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, once used a familiar political slogan for a book title, ''We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent.''
In Chicago, the rules went, people looking for jobs in city government or campaigns had to come with an endorsement from someone on the inside.
Also:
Terry Brunner, who heads the Better Government Association in Chicago, said precinct captains years ago sometimes went into the booth with voters.
''A precinct captain would say, 'Hey Mrs. Jones, remember how I took care of that ticket?' '' Mr. Brunner said. ''And then he'd say, 'You're a good Democrat, right? Do you know how to operate this machine? Let me help you.' ''
Straight-Party voting: The paradox here is that disadvantaged African-Americans by and large live in gerrymandered districts designed not to be competitive. The insinuation in the piece is that they prefer straight-party voting to picking-and-choosing, when the reality is that they have little choice. If they had meaningful choices on their ballots, that would increase turnout (and lines).
Illinois got rid of straight-line voting in 1997, which is the last year that Republicans held the governorship and both legislative houses. Doesn't seem to have helped Republicans, nor am I aware of a move to return it. The question is always who draws the maps?
IMHO, over 99% of police shootings are not felonious or cannot be proven to be felonious, given burdens of proof, Constitutional protections, and law enforcement's justification to use force. No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute them.
If I am right, then the first step forward is to scrutinize what can be done without involving felony charges. And even more difficult, it might even mean immunizing most (not all) officers from criminal prosecution in order to fully utilize alternative procedures that might be impeded by the Fifth Amendment.
The problem is that the LA police chief has said that more than half of the people he's terminated have been reversed by the disciplinary board, and now he is being sued by the union for civil rights violations arising from him pressuring the board to uphold his discipline. I wish articles like that would provide more context on the collective bargaining agreements in place, so we could better evaluate why police misconduct seems to usually just result in training and counseling.
My impression from a lawyer who prosecuted police misconduct for my state is that "first time" offense is pretty much going to result in nothing of consequence.
He does not count mass killings in which people know each other, or have some ascertainable connection. For example, if husband kills wife, children, and then himself. Also, not included is gang warfare.
What he is counting is violence based upon the ‘principle of social substitutability.’ The victim is targeted because of what they represent to the killer. That may seem ambiguous and inexplicable, but he sees it as political.
Peter Turchin has posted data suggesting a certain subset of homicides, random killing rampages, has increased ten-fold since the 1960s. Link to first post in series. I've thought the trend was particularly interesting in light of the overall trend of violent crime decreasing. And I wouldn't expect it to track other types of crime, since the motivation behind indiscriminate killing is different than crime for monetary gain or domestic abuse.
There is a second aspect to the title: the clearer way to report this would be "Cop shoots man holding up hands, says lawyer." That is misleading if what actually happened is that the cops shot at the autistic man, and hit a bystander.
I'll see your anecdata, and raise you. My kids never liked the cartoons for some reason, but really enjoyed the originals, and have watched them a lot because their friend's parents have the Star Wars DVDs. One of my kids cried in a certain scene in Force Awakens.
Star Wars was defining for a generation, but it was really the only decent all-ages space opera for the longest time. Lucas crowded-out his competition, and its really only the Guardians of the Galaxy that can now claim to compete in that sandbox.
That almost seems mean-spirited to close all polling places except the county courthouse, when the county courthouse could be available for what are probably only a very few people who need the highest ADA compliant buildings, while a schedule for updating or changing local polling places is implemented. Reading btw/ the lines, neither the feds or the county believe that is going to happen.
Local polling places are a convenience item, hopefully encouraging voters by reducing inconvenience. Travel itself is not always convenient for some disabled people.
(Religious organizations are exempt from ADA, but given that their membership tends to be older, and the older tend to be the most generous, I suspect most Churches are 'good enough' in terms of access, though not compliant. I.e., the ramp installed by one of the members is three degrees too steep)
Frankly, I've never noticed. I just found out about the rule looking at the city website listing polling places, and found the warning that churches are campaign free zones and no political signs on their property. I frankly don't know why the rule would apply to them and not the others.
Over half of the city's polling places where I currently live are in churches, and in particular, I don't think there would be many places within walking distance on the poor side of town if it weren't the various Baptist and AME churches. The odd thing though is that political signs at polling places are banned only at churches. I vote at a VFW hall and its signs all the way down the walk.
Before going to bed I can recall watching Bloomberg news where the latest poll showing Remain up 2% was splashed on a banner across the bottom of the screen, while the commenters talked as if looked like Remain had held on. 2 percent seemed way to close to me, but as a Yank, what do I know?
In Missouri, law enforcement in their initial press said it was clearly an ambush. After giving a ticket for a traffic violation, the officer was returning to his car and the suspect got out of the car, ran up behind and shot him three times in the back, all count on the cop car's camera.
I don't know if by "ambush," they meant an unexpected attack, or they are saying the suspect created the situation.
From what I can recall, there are a few issues with reading. One is that it is uncommon for parents to read to their children past a very young age, which means its something that can be specifically parsed. There is enough variability within social classes btw/ read/don't read that the results were not essentially concluding that people with advanced education and/or higher incomes read more to their children and thus become higher achievers. Reading is also a cognitive skill that is a form of interpersonal communication, and more likely to be helped through interpersonal communication than other cognitive skills.
This is from a survey of longitudinal studies titled "The Broken Compass," and most of the parental involvements were found not to have much effect, and some like helping with homework became harmful over time.
But elimination of soda appears to be an easy way to improve diet / nutrition. What I gather from the linked report is that people don't drink a lot of "full calorie soft drinks" these days. Underweight people drink the most, reporting one drink in the last 48 hours, while everyone else reported an average of about a half a drink in the last 48 hours.
That doesn't seem like a lot, and certainly not a big difference between BMI categories. And it does not look at how much reduced or non-calorie soft drinks are consumed, which I think are not benign.
C1: On the unimportance of parenting, I think the point made is a relative one. There are few novel things parents do in raising their child that have measurable impact. On the negative side, there is abusing a child. On the positive side, reading to your child has been shown to improve academic performance, most other parental involvement don't (per Broken Compass). The linked piece references "The Nature Assumption," which theorized that primarily socialization is by peer-group, and this is something parents can control indirectly. So basically, try to have children with a partner with desirable qualities and try to live somewhere nice and safe, and don't do anything stupid.
On “CHE: Why I’m Not Joining ‘Historians Against Trump’”
I scanned the list of historians against Trump and didn't find as many history professors as I would have thought. Out of 786 signatories, there are 244 professors, with 64 of these emeritus/emerita almost exclusively professors, as well as 78 who are retired, some of which are professors. Many professors are not history professors, and the list contains attorneys, environmental mangers, social workers and writers. (This may be because the original list was opened to people to join later, but the first 771 names are in alphabetical order, suggesting they were original signatories)
There also appear to be few history professors from elite schools, and without wanting to disparage any college or professor by name, I've not heard of many of these colleges. All in all, it seems like a fairly marginal enterprise.
On “Morning Ed: Politics {2017.07.25.M}”
I found in 1998 NYTimes piece about the change in Illinois law, which indicates one-third of suburban voters punched the straight-Republican ballot, but the legislation was directed at further weakening the Chicago machine:
Also:
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Straight-Party voting: The paradox here is that disadvantaged African-Americans by and large live in gerrymandered districts designed not to be competitive. The insinuation in the piece is that they prefer straight-party voting to picking-and-choosing, when the reality is that they have little choice. If they had meaningful choices on their ballots, that would increase turnout (and lines).
"
Illinois got rid of straight-line voting in 1997, which is the last year that Republicans held the governorship and both legislative houses. Doesn't seem to have helped Republicans, nor am I aware of a move to return it. The question is always who draws the maps?
On “CNN: Man shot by cops while lying down with hands up, lawyer says [+Video]”
IMHO, over 99% of police shootings are not felonious or cannot be proven to be felonious, given burdens of proof, Constitutional protections, and law enforcement's justification to use force. No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute them.
If I am right, then the first step forward is to scrutinize what can be done without involving felony charges. And even more difficult, it might even mean immunizing most (not all) officers from criminal prosecution in order to fully utilize alternative procedures that might be impeded by the Fifth Amendment.
"
The problem is that the LA police chief has said that more than half of the people he's terminated have been reversed by the disciplinary board, and now he is being sued by the union for civil rights violations arising from him pressuring the board to uphold his discipline. I wish articles like that would provide more context on the collective bargaining agreements in place, so we could better evaluate why police misconduct seems to usually just result in training and counseling.
My impression from a lawyer who prosecuted police misconduct for my state is that "first time" offense is pretty much going to result in nothing of consequence.
On “Morning Ed: Health {2016.07.21.Th}”
He does not count mass killings in which people know each other, or have some ascertainable connection. For example, if husband kills wife, children, and then himself. Also, not included is gang warfare.
What he is counting is violence based upon the ‘principle of social substitutability.’ The victim is targeted because of what they represent to the killer. That may seem ambiguous and inexplicable, but he sees it as political.
"
Peter Turchin has posted data suggesting a certain subset of homicides, random killing rampages, has increased ten-fold since the 1960s. Link to first post in series. I've thought the trend was particularly interesting in light of the overall trend of violent crime decreasing. And I wouldn't expect it to track other types of crime, since the motivation behind indiscriminate killing is different than crime for monetary gain or domestic abuse.
On “CNN: Man shot by cops while lying down with hands up, lawyer says [+Video]”
There is a second aspect to the title: the clearer way to report this would be "Cop shoots man holding up hands, says lawyer." That is misleading if what actually happened is that the cops shot at the autistic man, and hit a bystander.
On “Morning Ed: Society {2016.07.20.W}”
I'll see your anecdata, and raise you. My kids never liked the cartoons for some reason, but really enjoyed the originals, and have watched them a lot because their friend's parents have the Star Wars DVDs. One of my kids cried in a certain scene in Force Awakens.
Star Wars was defining for a generation, but it was really the only decent all-ages space opera for the longest time. Lucas crowded-out his competition, and its really only the Guardians of the Galaxy that can now claim to compete in that sandbox.
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Agree w/ money, not culture. The logic appears to be that remakes have higher floors than a new creation, but almost certainly have lower ceilings.
On “Morning Ed: Politics {2016.07.19.T}”
That almost seems mean-spirited to close all polling places except the county courthouse, when the county courthouse could be available for what are probably only a very few people who need the highest ADA compliant buildings, while a schedule for updating or changing local polling places is implemented. Reading btw/ the lines, neither the feds or the county believe that is going to happen.
Local polling places are a convenience item, hopefully encouraging voters by reducing inconvenience. Travel itself is not always convenient for some disabled people.
(Religious organizations are exempt from ADA, but given that their membership tends to be older, and the older tend to be the most generous, I suspect most Churches are 'good enough' in terms of access, though not compliant. I.e., the ramp installed by one of the members is three degrees too steep)
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Frankly, I've never noticed. I just found out about the rule looking at the city website listing polling places, and found the warning that churches are campaign free zones and no political signs on their property. I frankly don't know why the rule would apply to them and not the others.
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Are we talking about the Veepstakes now?
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Over half of the city's polling places where I currently live are in churches, and in particular, I don't think there would be many places within walking distance on the poor side of town if it weren't the various Baptist and AME churches. The odd thing though is that political signs at polling places are banned only at churches. I vote at a VFW hall and its signs all the way down the walk.
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The betting markets were bad as well, and people like Andrew Gelman admitted to relying upon them to evaluate the general polling.
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Before going to bed I can recall watching Bloomberg news where the latest poll showing Remain up 2% was splashed on a banner across the bottom of the screen, while the commenters talked as if looked like Remain had held on. 2 percent seemed way to close to me, but as a Yank, what do I know?
On “Morning Ed: Britain {2016.07.18.M}”
In Missouri, law enforcement in their initial press said it was clearly an ambush. After giving a ticket for a traffic violation, the officer was returning to his car and the suspect got out of the car, ran up behind and shot him three times in the back, all count on the cop car's camera.
I don't know if by "ambush," they meant an unexpected attack, or they are saying the suspect created the situation.
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Ballwin, Missouri, police officer, paralyzed from the neck down following ambush.
http://fox2now.com/2016/07/18/ballwin-officer-shot-in-ambush-paralyzed-from-the-neck-down/
On “The 2016 Election In Pictures”
No prize for identifying all seven instances where Will Truman is in the picture.
On “Linky Friday #175: First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage…”
From what I can recall, there are a few issues with reading. One is that it is uncommon for parents to read to their children past a very young age, which means its something that can be specifically parsed. There is enough variability within social classes btw/ read/don't read that the results were not essentially concluding that people with advanced education and/or higher incomes read more to their children and thus become higher achievers. Reading is also a cognitive skill that is a form of interpersonal communication, and more likely to be helped through interpersonal communication than other cognitive skills.
This is from a survey of longitudinal studies titled "The Broken Compass," and most of the parental involvements were found not to have much effect, and some like helping with homework became harmful over time.
"
But elimination of soda appears to be an easy way to improve diet / nutrition. What I gather from the linked report is that people don't drink a lot of "full calorie soft drinks" these days. Underweight people drink the most, reporting one drink in the last 48 hours, while everyone else reported an average of about a half a drink in the last 48 hours.
That doesn't seem like a lot, and certainly not a big difference between BMI categories. And it does not look at how much reduced or non-calorie soft drinks are consumed, which I think are not benign.
"
C1: On the unimportance of parenting, I think the point made is a relative one. There are few novel things parents do in raising their child that have measurable impact. On the negative side, there is abusing a child. On the positive side, reading to your child has been shown to improve academic performance, most other parental involvement don't (per Broken Compass). The linked piece references "The Nature Assumption," which theorized that primarily socialization is by peer-group, and this is something parents can control indirectly. So basically, try to have children with a partner with desirable qualities and try to live somewhere nice and safe, and don't do anything stupid.
On “Colby Cosh: Why Canadians are better republicans”
But by what definition is something a palace?
White House: 54,900 sq. ft.
Rideau Hall: 95,000 sq. ft.
Buckingham Palace: 828,820 sq. ft.
On “Morning Ed: World {2016.07.14.Th}”
Webb said he would vote for Trump over Clinton, but its hard to tell with him.
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