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with you my red state nightmare a gunman enters a class i m teaching in a large lecture hall students at first look shocked but then they all stand up draw their handguns and start shooting take a moment to imagine the crossfire and the terror thanks to the lovely politicians in my new state of delusion that nightmare is one step closer to reality my campus has banned smoking anywhere on the university s grounds but it s likely that very soon students will be able to bring guns to class smart is sexy in the classroom on the job market pretty much anywhere guns not so much photo by janina szkut and used under a creative commons license i know many students at boise state come from rural areas and grew up hunting they re comfortable therefore with hunting rifles but let s be honest we re not talking about letting students and others bring rifles onto campus we re talking about handguns including at football games because football isn t already enough of a blood sport as someone who grew up in an area scarred by handgun violence perpetrated by teenagers and young adults i am profoundly uneasy with this latest development posted by leslie m b at 8 17 pm 3 comments labels grist for the cultural studies mill wait we moved to where whining exhortation and angst friday march 04 2011 i have no words except for these the folks at this protest are bigots and racists plain and simple even worse some of them are elected republican reps one of whom made death threats against the muslim families attending this charity event please spread the word of these protesters and representatives hateful wrongdoing posted by leslie m b at 9 49 am 6 comments labels grist for the cultural studies mill whining exhortation and angst tuesday february 22 2011 ups and downs ups and downs when i was in elementary school a teacher read my class a book that followed the pattern fortunately unfortunately it was like this one and maybe it was that one but the copyright date doesn t seem right anyhoo cribbing from amazon s description of that book the plot went something like this fortunately ned was invited to a surprise party unfortunately the party was a thousand miles away fortunately a friend loaned ned an airplane unfortunately the motor exploded fortunately there was a parachute in the airplane unfortunately there was a hole in the parachute lately my life has seemed to be a big disjointed narrative of fortunately unfortunately some episodes i get a nasty head chest cold i begin to recover then i get a second round then i begin to recover again but with a twist my head and chest are clear but i have all the tiredness of a mononucleosis victim plus insomnia today in fact is the first day in a while that i ve had enough energy to make it through the day intellectually and physically intact today i turned in a grant application i ve been working on for months yay i ve even come to grips with the university s indirect cost rate scaling down the project to the point where it s a bit embarrassing i even found the strength to correct the grants guy when he called the 50 000 grant proposal small those of you in the sciences may not realize that a grant over oh 3500 is pretty damn big for a humanist and then just as i think i have all my ducks in a row i learn there s another form specific to my university a big complicated one that i need to get filled out and double signed and no my first thought was not what the fuck am i paying indirect costs of 19 500 for if the grants folk aren t going alert me to the fact that i need to fill out this friggin form fortunately the grants folks are actually quite nice and this was in the big scheme of things a small oversight and they ll help me get it filled out quickly lucas starts kindergarten in the fall unfortunately our local elementary school is kind of sketchy i m not one to look at test scores but let s just say a 50 drop in boys reading proficiency between kindergarten and first grade raises a red flag especially when that decline isn t mirrored throughout the district fortunately lucas earned lucky 13 of 150 in the lottery for one of the area s best regarded charter schools the one to which local hippies and commies read the professoriate long to send their kids unfortunately through the whims of fate read large idaho families priority for siblings of current students even 13 might not be a good enough number to get him into the school we ll know within a couple of weeks keep your fingers crossed for us ok as fang has detailed on his blog lucas has been running into a number of budding sociopaths in his preschool and we d really prefer that he fall in with the kind of kids whose parents are serious about sending them to a great school even if it s in what s widely acknowledged as boise s armpit then there s utah that post was a way for me to come to grips with the fact that a doctor found a giant tumor in my 87 year old grandmother in her colon because her primary care physician is literally alas in a coma and thus no one had pointed out to her that her symptoms might indicate a cancer scale problem which means she hadn t had a colonoscopy in well ever fortunately the surgeon thought he could excise the tumor do a temporary colostomy and reconnect the remaining parts of the colon unfortunately he found the tumor is cancerous the cancer has metastasized to her liver and pancreas and the primary tumor is inoperable because of scar tissue from an apparently botched hysterectomy from 40 years ago the surgeon gives her two years to live i ll write a blog post about my grandmother when i have the emotional strength to do so for now let s just say that i ve always marveled at her strength and good humor and that my grandmother has not just been a caretaker and adviser to me but also a very good friend even today just a couple days after her surgery even though she d had family and doctors and nurses and physical therapists visiting her all day long she was chatty and even optimistic we talked and laughed for 25 minutes and this is a woman who recently found out she s terminally ill and had just hours before learned how to empty the colostomy bag that she ll use for the rest of her life i love the woman dearly and i m having a very difficult time being so far away from her this geographical angst has been made even worse by idaho politics i love my job dearly and what little i ve seen of this state is achingly beautiful in that wind scrubbed arid intermountain way i do plan to stay here for a long time yet recent events have made me regret just a little putting so much distance between me and california share your own fortunately unfortunately scenarios in the comments it s good to know i m not alone on this roller coaster posted by leslie m b at 10 01 pm 11 comments labels grist for the cultural studies mill mamablogging wait we moved to where whining exhortation and angst monday february 21 2011 putting things in perspective from robert reich on the republican strategy last year america s top thirteen hedge fund managers earned an average of 1 billion each one of them took home 5 billion much of their income is taxed as capital gains at 15 percent due to a tax loophole that republican members of congress have steadfastly guarded if the earnings of those thirteen hedge fund managers were taxed as ordinary income the revenues generated would pay the salaries and benefits of 300 000 teachers who is more valuable to our society thirteen hedge fund managers or 300 000 teachers let s make the question even simpler who is more valuable one hedge fund manager or one teacher posted by leslie m b at 7 27 pm 1 comment labels grist for the cultural studies mill reasons to jump ship wait we moved to where saturday february 19 2011 next stop hellscape caution i may be channeling fang photo by shane gorski and used under a creative commons license in recent years i haven t been prone to pessimism but i m beginning to believe that the republicans won t be satisfied until we re all living in heavily armed survivalist compounds outside of dead liberal cities only then will we have achieved the vision of the founding fathers only it will be a twisted post apocalyptic version of jefferson s agrarian middle landscape i know i need not provide much evidence on a national scale to readers of this blog but may i share a few highlights gleaned from a few of the blogs i read and only from the past few days then my friends only then shall we turn to the clusterfuck that is idaho first there s historiann s post about representation without taxation she sums up the colorado governor s delusion plan to make the state more pro business the plan is awfully familiar to those of us a bit to the north and west of historiann and then provides this commentary what a brilliant pro business plan this is absolutely everyone wants to move their businesses to a state that s cutting education it s so easy to get your employees to see the advantages for their children of attending schools with huge class sizes and no extras like music art sports or anything that s not covered on the colorado student annual progress csap tests and if they love that they ll love the nonexistent state support for universities here and guess what republicans here are lauding the governor s seriousness while democrats are treating hick s budget like a flaming bag of poo left on their doorstep we get the politicians we deserve the fatuousness of these conversations among our elected representatives reflects our own unseriousness as citizens we expect to enjoy quality schools universities parks roads hospitals medical care emergency services low income assistance prisons public transportation and all other services without paying taxes we ve been living off of the crumbling infrastructure americans invested in fifty years ago and more expecting that nothing would change and that no further investment was required a fucking men then there s bardiac s upper midwest state which has been in the news quite a bit lately for its attempted pounding of public sector labor unions she provides a round up of republican plans to for example eliminate health insurance and pensions for limited term employees who she points out are mostly women as well as cut funding for medicaid so that even the children of these newly health insurance free employees won t have access to affordable healthcare she then nicely details the difference between pro business factions and those of us on the front lines of public service and in particular education there s some bluster on both sides of course but the bluster of state workers is so much less effective i was thinking about how ineffective our bluster is and here s what i figured out our problem is that we actually care we value education and care about educating our students we care about doing jobs we think are important enough that we take less pay than we d get in the private sector it s in the news not just some opinion i have so we aren t going to mess with students or do less work can i hear another amen people arbitrista seems to agree why so glum my nature perhaps and the fact that these are discouraging times but more importantly i don t have a great deal of confidence that the democratic party will do anything to stop it as with abortion rights or gun control democrats have stopped fighting very hard for unions they re pretty much absent from the public debate on these issues which means that one one side you have a barrage of relentless propaganda and on the other nothing and then via shark fu we learn of a particularly asinine proposal to eliminate child labor regulations in missouri here s the summary of the bill from the state website sb 222 this act modifies the child labor laws it eliminates the prohibition on employment of children under age fourteen restrictions on the number of hours and restrictions on when a child may work during the day are also removed it also repeals the requirement that a child ages fourteen or fifteen obtain a work certificate or work permit in order to be employed children under sixteen will also be allowed to work in any capacity in a motel resort or hotel where sleeping accommodations are furnished it also removes the authority of the director of the division of labor standards to inspect employers who employ children and to require them to keep certain records for children they employ it also repeals the presumption that the presence of a child in a workplace is evidence of employment take a moment to pry your jaw off the ground i ll wait i ll use the time to teach lucas how to earn pennies an hour on mechanical turk quips shark fu i m guessing that state representative jane cunningham ever a faithful minion consulted satan prior to filing this shit now that we ve finished a rapid tour of flyover america let s take a look at my far flung corner of real america via sisyphus at 43rd state blues i learned about the blog of state rep nicole lefavour a democrat who represents my favorite parts of boise lefavour penned a post titled how to tank a state economy easy steps for lawmakers it s worth reading in its entirety but it s such a well organized post that it s possible to outline it here 1 destroy jobs a lay off as many state employees as possible b reduce wages c be sure that businesses doing contract work for the state go bankrupt d repel businesses seeking to move into your state 2 increase costs to families a force families into crisis b make education more expensive c remain dependent on fossil fuels d increase user fees for everything 3 keep state government in perpetual fiscal crisis a turn away federal matching funds or any form of money paid to the federal government by taxpayers in your state b no matter how well the national economy is recovering predict doom for your own state c create political strife d no matter how much things fall apart don t raise taxes 4 reduce the state s population a nothing says economic disaster like death and out migration but really this outline doesn t do lefavour s post justice click through to read it yourself but here are some of my favorite recent gem state hijinks and their results many of which have been realized she suggests the state should pursue if it really wants to fail big be sure your public schools rank last in the nation for per pupil spending class size and adequacy of school facilities course offerings text books lab supplies and equipment and materials essential to teaching provide no anti discrimination job protections for gay people technology companies are full of gay employees even if a company provides its own job protections a state needs to project a hostile enough atmosphere to guarantee that other family members seeking jobs or educational opportunities will face discrimination in employment housing and education in any given town across the state ensure state leaders talk as much as possible about large predatory 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