Thursday Reads and Such

More about Southern Oregon University jumping the shark is here.

It sounds as if this is not an online program.  I do not see how there can be any interest in taking this bullshit given how "red" southern Oregon is in the first place.  It isn't going to lure students from elsewhere.  In truth, it is making SOU a laughingstock.

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Exploiting child suicide as an excuse to employ eugenics by way of threatening parents is the ultimate science denial.
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Trump had another setback from the USSC when it upheld DACA.
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Obituary:  Jean Kennedy Smith, 92, the last of the children of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy and sister of JFK, RFK, and Ted Kennedy, among others, has died.

She was married to Stephen Smith for many years, until he died.  Jean lived a low-key life compared to most of her siblings.

She was the eighth of the nine children.

Smith was U.S. ambassador to Ireland during the Clinton years.


Smith was the US ambassador to Ireland in the 1990s, playing a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process. At age 65, she was appointed to the role by President Bill Clinton and served from 1993 to 1998.

Kym Smith told CNN her mother was most proud of the Ireland peace agreement she helped broker.

"She did an amazing job on the peace process," Kym Smith said. "She worked tirelessly."

Smith's first foray into national politics was campaigning for her elder brother, then-Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, as he sought the presidency in 1960, according to the Kennedy presidential library.
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Another obituary: UK singer Dame Vera Lynn, only 103, known for her big hit "We'll Meet Again,"  forever tied to World War II, has died.

Yet as the generation who fought the war have died, so a romantic view of the conflict has become weaponised in the construction of the myth of a plucky Britain, fighting alone against Nazi foes. Britain in 1940 wasn’t alone at all, with the resources of an empire behind it, but that hardly serves the war-evoking narrative that formed the core of so much discourse around Brexit and today’s culture war. The examples are numerous: Matt Hancock, now the UK’s bumbling health secretary, invoked D-day in a speech to launch his abortive Tory leadership campaign, and on “Brexit day” in January the Daily Mail printed a front page image of Dover’s white cliffs, immortalised in another of Vera Lynn’s wartime hits. In recent weeks, the tediously polarised argument over Churchill’s legacy has become tied up with discussions over monuments to our imperial past.

Once you hear it, you don't forget it:


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Not a wise move, Amy, withdrawing your name from VP consideration.
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