I feel almost as chary of disputing an African-American's views on Kwanzaa as I was of talking about Jewish identity. Still, here goes:
Tony Pierce rips Kwanzaa as "some watered down bullshit made up strip mall phony holiday so you can wear a koofi," and even sees the holiday as contributing to the white supremacist cause:
black folk, the racists want us to have kwanza. it makes us look ridiculous and lost. kwanza represents something missing from being Christian. racists dont want black folk being Christian. they dont want to be equals to us. they dont want to share beliefs, they dont want to have anything to do with us, cuz they know that familiarity destroys ignorance, and only the ignorant can remain hateful. worst thing you could do to a racist is go to his church, stand next to his daughter, sing the songs better, know the word better, and exclusively talk about america as if its your home and has been for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years longer than him. watch him smile when you talk about africa, cuz thats where he wants you.
Interestingly, at the beginning of the post Pierce also deprecates non-Christian Christmas symbols like lights, snowmen and a Winnie-the-Pooh Santa as a distraction from the true meaning of the holiday, the celebration of Jesus's birth.
Yet my underderstanding of Kwanzaa (as vaguely remembered from Dean Turner's class on the African American Community) is that it is not a substitute for Christmas, nor is it part of the essentially meaningless secularity now associated with the season.
Kwanzaa is a unique African American celebration with focus on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement. Kwanzaa is neither political nor religious and despite some misconceptions, is not a substitute for Christmas. It is simply a time of reaffirming African-American people, their ancestors and culture.
To emphasize that it does not attempt to replace the Christian holiday, Kwanzaa begins on December 26, and the values celebrated (one each day) can be seen as supplementary to the values of Jesus's life. Unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith surely are not contrary to Christianity. Indeed, the centrality of family and community in Kwanzaa celebration counters the festivals of gluttony and materialism that most people's Christmases are.
To be honest, I am troubled by Pierce's saying that talking about one's ancestors' home is somehow unAmerican, and that one "beats" the white supremacist by one's family's having been in the United States longer than his. By paying attention to the opinions of racists, Pierce is buying into their value system.
No American, blackwhitebrownwhatever, is made more or less American by the length of time in which her family has resided here. No American is made more or less American by knowing something about non-European traditions and by having celebrations that did not originate in Europe. Celebrating Kwanzaa need not take away from celebrating Christmas.
If I didn't know that I don't bank with Citibank, this almost would have fooled me:
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Great, great news for the people of Iraq, who now can put Saddam Hussein on trial along with his henchmen for their decades of crimes against them. Although there's no reason for it, this gives me a little more hope that we'll find Osama bin Laden, which would be great news for the people of the U.S., who could then put him on trial for his crimes against them.
The capture of Saddam Hussein should utterly demoralize the portion of Iraqi insurgents who had been loyal to Saddam and who were fighting the U.S. occupation with the goal of restoring Baathists to power, but I think bin Laden must be taken, preferably alive to avoid martyrdom, to break the spirit of the people who came into Iraq just to force out the Americans. He, not Saddam, is the symbol of al Qaeda, of the fanatical, suicide-oriented mission to push the West out of Muslim nations.
Sen. Lieberman said on Meet the Press that Saddam should be tried by a court that can give him the death he surely deserves. I doubt he will be tried by a European court that does not have a capital option, but Americans really ought not be the determiners of the appropriate punishment for Saddam.
If the Iraqi people are in favor of having a death penalty, then that is what we should have. This should be their trial, their closure for the genocides against the Kurds and marsh-dwellers, the politically-motivated murders, tortures, rapes and imprisonments that were perpetrated against Iraqis, not Americans. Our time will come when we get bin Laden.
Mithras has a similar view of how Saddam's capture will affect the insurgency, and also wonders whether Saddam Hussein broke any Iraqi laws (presumably an Iraqi court would have jurisdiction only for violations of domestic law). However, I think a court in Iraq, composed mostly of Iraqis, though not necessarily part of the usual court system, would be able to try Saddam for violating international law.
The trials of Saddam and the other criminals of his regime can be like those of the Rwandan genocide perpetrators.
The legal framework also draws on international law, including Rwanda's genocide tribunal and the legal code used to create the United Nations' International Criminal Court, a body the Bush administration opposes. Al-Hakim said it would also use the Geneva Conventions as a point of reference.
Those trials seem to be going quite well. They are not a fake trial, as Nuremberg essentially was, with the judgement a foregone conclusion before the indictments were even read, but they are still punishing the criminals. Perhaps the most important function of trials like these, after a nightmare of death and pain for much of a nation, is of clarification. Where are the missing sons and fathers, brothers and husbands? Who assaulted the daughters and mothers, sisters and wives?
I have always thought that Saddam would end up being like Slobodan Milosevic: taken alive, only to protest that the charges against him are a sham and his trial below his notice. Bin Laden, we will have trouble keeping alive for his trial. Unlike Saddam and Milosevic, he has the martyr's spirit as well as a martyr's cause.
So Saddam's trial may end up featuring some of the absurdist elements of Milosevic's, but I think both will be sentenced to the maximum punishment their courts will allow. General Clark, incidentally, is at the Hague right now to testify against Milosevic.
I'm in Chicago for my Monday morn Northwestern Law interview, staying with family friends nearby. We just came back from the Last Samurai, which was tremendously better than I had expected. I admit to a degree of prejudice against a Tom Cruise historical epic (Far and Away, anyone?), but it really delivered -- almost no cop-out at the end. Because I'm a dork, I would have preferred less gory battle scene and panorama shots, and more showing of exactly why the samurai objected to the modernization of Japan. Now I have to go look up exactly what happened there.
When I walked out of O'Hare, the air felt no colder than that back at BWI. However, it snowed in the early evening -- not the postcard snowflakes we'd seen in the D.C. area, but serious sticking snow -- and by the time we walked back from the theatre, I felt Chicago. Not even the wind, just the cold, with the snow salt-sprinkled over our coats. At the last two blocks before the apartment building, I was beginning to worry about my ears. Must buy those flaps that fit around one's ears. Or earmuffs, I don't have a hairstyle to muss.
I have to run by UChicago before I go home, to drop off my personal check. They don't let people transmit their application fees online, and I was doin' it all online. They sent me an email a few days ago politely reminding me that until they saw my money, they weren't looking at my application. They didn't say it in so many words, but I understood. So a hand-delivered $65 to the people who put the economics in law & econ.
The family friends keep asking me what I want to do in Chicago. I don't know. Eat pizza? I've been eating unhealthy food all day, starting with the "Wild Mountain" chicken sandwich at Wendy's (which is misbehaving at best, not wild by a long shot), and then chocolate candy through the afternoon, with only a break at dinner for salad. This promises to continue tomorrow morning with chocolate chip pancakes. Chicken sausage isn't too bad, is it?
I asked about the museums, and they mentioned the Field. That sounds vaguely familiar, but I'm kind of label-oriented about museums. Like, oh, a Guggenheim, OK. I know that one. The Field sounds downright independent. But I'm in an art museum mood, look at lots of NOTICE THIS and see what sticks. The family friends seem to like Kandinsky, with concentric circles in the half-bathroom and an untitled piece that has triangles, crescents, blobby and smooth circles.
I can't remember which malicious falsehoods on a weblog would qualify as. I post this message, forwarded by a friend, in hopes that a couple of Bush-supporting readers, or at least people more knowledgeable than myself, can sift out the truth from the exaggeration and distortion. Some of this is definitely true, some of it sounds like quite a stretch.
RESUME: George W. Bush The White House, USA
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
MILITARY: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE: I graduated from Yale University. I was a cheerleader. [And went to Harvard Business School after failing to get into UT Law.]
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for US Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected Governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR: I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history. With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT: I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week. I spent the US surplus and effectively bankrupted the US Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in US history [these statements about "largest deficits," "biggest stock market drop," "highest gasoline prices," "richest Cabinet members" may fail to take inflation into account]. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the US stock market.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period. After taking off the entire month of August 2001, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S.history.
I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends. I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by a US president.
In my first year in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continued. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration than any president in US history.
I set the record for smallest number of presidential press conferences since the advent of television. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. I've broken more international treaties than any president in US history.
The members of my Cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I am the first president in US history to order an unprovoked, preemptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of US citizens [this part cannot be correct], and the world community.
I created the Department of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission. I withdrew the US from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war "detainees" and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention. I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US election).
I am the all-time US and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. My largest lifetime campaign contributor, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in US history. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the US Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution [probably untrue]. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the US after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the US the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history. I am first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security [this could say as much about Europeans as it does about Bush].
I changed the US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to justice [obviously true].
RECORDS AND REFERENCES: All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view. All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-president, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
Please consider my experience when voting in 2004 - Send this to every voter you know.
[D]etour into Kingsbury Chocolates in Old Town. Located above a children's clothing store on a bustling block of King Street, this small, second-story sweet shop offers handmade truffles, caramels, fudge, gooey popcorn balls and other decadent candies. Walking into the shop is like stepping inside a vintage Valentine's Day card. Visitors are greeted with the rich scent of chocolate, honey, caramel or perhaps some other luscious aroma, depending on what's cooking that day. The walls are painted in warm tones of red, custard and dark toffee and decorated with large brush-stroke illustrations of sweetheart scenes, painted in the French toile style.
Cute Date Place Alert:
In addition to chocolates and candies, Kingsbury Chocolates sells breakfast pastries made by a Baltimore baker, as well as coffee, tea and hot chocolate that surpasses anything likely to be found in most area coffeehouses. Kingsbury's version is made from freshly shaved, imported bittersweet Belgian chocolate, mixed with whole milk and a splash of heavy cream for added richness. [F]or $2, you can enjoy a cup at one of the cafe tables while listening to vintage jazz and gazing out the window at the scene below.
It ain't Paris, but Alexandria may be as close as the Northern Virginia suburbs get.
One might think John Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" is a pretty sad tune, but "I Believe in Father Christmas," written by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, glooms all over Lennon.
They said there'll be snow at Christmas They said there'll be peace on earth But instead it just kept on raining A veil of tears for the virgin birth.
I remember one Christmas morning A winter's light and the distant choir And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell Eyes full of tinsel and fire.
They sold me a dream of Christmas They sold me a silent night They told me a fairy story 'Til I believed in the Israelite.
And I believed in Father Christmas I looked to the sky with excited eyes Then I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn And I saw him through his disguise.
I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave new year All anguish, pain, and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear.
They said there'd be snow at Christmas They said there'd be peace on earth. Hallelujah, Noel, Be it heaven or hell, The Christmas we get we deserve.
A friend and I were discussing hat sizes yesterday. I'm a 7 1/8, according to my Astros cap (the only hat I own other than my graduation motarboard); he's a 7 3/8. "One fourth larger than me," I said, but one fourth larger what? Certainly not centimeters or inches of circumference, although hat-sellers have people measure around their heads and then convert that into a hat size via a mysterious chart.
Perhaps hats follow the same nonexistent rules of sizing that govern women's clothing. However, the utter meaninglessness of women's sizes is popularly supposed to be intended to protect women's vanity regarding their bodies, which presumably wouldn't extend to head size. As Jeff Foxworthy noted after seeing a "plus-size" women's catalog, the numbers used appear to designate the acres of cloth used to make the item more than anything else.
Men, on the other hand, apparently have no issues with knowing the true dimensions of their waist and the length of their legs. My theory is that sometime in their teens, men look at themselves in a mirror, recognize where they fall on the appearance scale and do not worry much about it thereafter, devoting the time women spend on that concern to more important issues like fantasy football. This is mostly good, except in the cases when a man becomes much better looking with time and continues to regard himself as a gargoyle; and far more problematically, when a man gets fat and bald and generally unattractive but doesn't seem to have realized it.
At any rate, there is an explanation for hat sizes: they measure the diameter of the inside of the hat, aka the diameter of the hat wearing portion of one's head.
Men's hat sizes measure the diameter of the hat if it were deformed into a perfect circle. To obtain your measurements, measure the circumference of your head across the forehead and just below the curve of the skull in back and divide the result by Pi (3.14159).
This website claims that women's hat sizes measure circumference, which I suppose means that my Astros cap is a sexist and uninclusive cap.
Don't tell my mom, but I forgot to finish a couple of my applications for schools that didn't have an Early Action deadline, and am now frantically churning them out.
I received a favorable impression of Fordham University during the Rawls conference, and so was particularly anxious to get my application in, despite its having a lesser reputation than the majority of schools to which I am applying. However, I'm stuck on Questions 27 and 28. Well, not so much stuck on as bemused by.
All the schools that have asked about my diversity attributes (race, religion, etc.) have worded it in different ways. I remarked Wisconsin's checkbox method earlier, and Notre Dame's query about religion elsewhere.
Emory also asked about my "religious preference." I thought about attaching an explanation of how I liked Quaker meeting as long as I was fully awake, and the close community of evangelical/fundamentalist churches whose beliefs I completely disavowed, and had come up a Unitarian in a quiz. Since they provided only a short line, I decided to keep it brief and said Agnostic Hindu, which may seem puzzling at first but isn't when you think about Hinduism.
Fordham has an interesting way of asking these sort of questions:
27. Regardless of your ethnic background, if you feel you have been educationally, economically, socially or historically disadvantaged and wish the Admissions Committee to consider this during the evaluation process, check here __ and provide explanatory information on an attachment (or electronic attachment) labeled "Response to Question 27." If you believe you have been discriminated against, check here __ and include in your statement all relevant details. If you have checked either or both of these spaces, you must provide the explanatory information as requested if you wish the Admissions Committee to consider these facts in the evaluation of your application.
28. If you have a physical disability, learning disability, or other disability which you wish the Admissions Committee to consider in evaluating your application, please provide explanatory information on an attachment (or electronic attachment) labeled "Statement Regarding Disability."
This is the most anal application I've filled out with regard to labeling attachments. No other school has specified what the attachments need to be named.
Question 7 had already garnered the "Optional information on ethnic background (for statistical reporting purposes)," although the detailed range of options was somewhat unusual: American Indian/ Native Alaskan Black African American Other Black Asian - Chinese Asian - Filipino Asian - Japanese Asian - Korean Asian - East Indian [I hope this encompasses South Indian] Asian - Other [oops, maybe this does] Chicano/ Mexican American Puerto Rican Cuban American Hispanic South American Hispanic Central American Hispanic (Spain) Other Latino (please specify) [why no "please specify" for the Other Asian?] White
Some might look at this and snort, "Political correctness," but "Hispanic" isn't really the best term for anything. If intended to designate people from Spanish-speaking families, then this list leaves out Brazilians. "Latino" is more generally accepted because it encompasses all people south of the U.S. border, although it does leave out people who have immigrated directly from Spain, as such people are considered European and white.
Question 29 on the Fordham application is one I've never seen before in any shape: "In what state(s) do you contemplate seeking admission to the bar?" Bloody hell if I know. I put down New York and District of Columbia as plausible choices.
Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona says many sensible things about the need to enforce our current immigration laws in an NRO Guest Comment. Unfortunately, he fails to address head-on the biggest reason for illegal immigration: the availability of jobs to undocumented workers.
If it were known that getting work in America is absolutely impossible without the correct papers, people would not be coming here, as work is the main lure for the average alien. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for welfare checks, subsidized housing, food stamps or any form of public assistance except the federally-mandated provision of emergency medical treatment that Kyl seems to regard skeptically.
Pregnant women sometimes endeavor to have their babies in the U.S., which makes the children automatically citizens, but this is an exceptional situation. If the Wal-Marts and Tysons weren't hiring, the vast majority of aliens would not have risked death and injury to cross the border to be here; the cost of paying a smuggler would be far greater than the few benefits that accrue to an unemployed immigrant who must hide from the government. As a senior fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies noted during testimony before Congress,
Immigration experts agreed then, as they do now, that illegal immigrants come to the United States for one primary reason: jobs. Thus, it was clear then, as it is now, that border controls alone would not halt illegal immigration as long as jobs were still available to illegal immigrants. Moreover, border controls would do nothing to deter those immigrants who entered the United States on legal temporary visas and then overstayed.
But Kyl's only mention of the hiring problem is "the lure of cheap labor," buried under concerns about excess political correctness and criticism and underfunding of border enforcement. Perhaps he thinks that the irresponsible and illegal actions of American employers have been sufficiently covered in the recent news stories, or maybe he doesn't want to offend potential contributors. "Political correctness" and faceless aliens are much easier targets than big corporations.
INS takes a similar attitude. Only civil sanctions fall on employers who negligently or knowingly hire undocumented workers, while the workers are jailed and deported. This vast imbalance in punishment means that in the conspiracy of illegal employment, employers have all the power. If an employee is mistreated, the threat of being reported to the INS carries far greater consequences for him than any counter-threat to report the employer does to the latter.
Rather like Ford's calculations in the infamous Pinto case, the employers who hire illegals (and they are a minority; only 3% of all employers, by the GAO's count) calculate that they make more money by acting unethically. The monetary penalties for violating the law multiplied by the likelihood of getting caught equals a number much smaller than the profits of the behavior.
Those pansies at the AFL-CIO just want "enhanced penalties," but this form of white-collar crime should include criminal penalties. Those found responsible for knowingly or negligently engaging in violations of employment law (including hiring of illegal immigrants and any traffic in forged documents) should serve time in prison. The employer who has to factor possible prison time into her calculations of whether to permit undocumented workers to be hired is less likely to do so.
If prison is such a bloody good deterrent, we ought to use it more often to make people who are really freaked out at the thought of it behave properly. Jill from Human Resources is going to take the Big House more seriously than Leon from the Corner Crackhouse.
Old news can always be made new in the wonderful world of litigation:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition by Outkast and their record labels asking the court to intervene in a lawsuit involving civil-rights icon Rosa Parks and the rap duo's Grammy-nominated single bearing her name. The move clears the way for Parks to sue Outkast for what she claims is false advertising, a violation of her rights of publicity.
I was startled when I first saw mention of this case. Surely it had been settled years ago.
Well, part of it had. Parks's claims of character defamation and interference with an ongoing business relationship were thrown out by U.S. District Judge Barbara Hackett, and that ruling upheld by a three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit. The contention that using Parks's name and likeness without permission constitutes false advertising, however, has not been finally adjudicated. The Supreme Court's denial of Outkast's petition permits Parks to pursue that claim.
The controversy centers on a song titled "Rosa Parks" on Outkast's 1998 Aquemini and the 2001 best of collection Big Boi & Dre Present Outkast. I admit to a prejudice in favor of Outkast just because I enjoy their work; they're exuberantly funny as well as serious. But Rosa Parks is, well, Rosa Parks. And the song on which they used her name comes off as a hip-hop cliche of self-absorbed braggery and dick-gazing. (In literature, people navel-gaze; in contemporary music, men seem to be looking farther down.) Even the hook, which does reference the site of Parks's claim to fame -- "Everybody move to the back of the bus" -- is about the usual grind:
Ah ha hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus Do you wanna bump and slump wit us We the type of people make the club get crunk
On the other hand, Parks has been somewhat oversensitive to references to her, as in the jocular Barbershop dialogue. She is a public figure, her name carrying a significance beyond her own person. Indeed, Parks was chosen by the NAACP to be the test case because she was seen as an upstanding pillar of the community, a 42-year-old wife who could withstand the media pressure better than the two young women who previously had refused to give up their seats and been arrested. She did not trip into history.
3:03 PM
Just because you won the argument doesn't mean you're right.
