A new, downloadable song by Kay Hanley, Jill Sobule, and Michelle Lewis in favor of net neutrality. Nice, but the chorus sounds too much like it’s going to be “Hey Mr. Tambourine Man.”
And coming on the heels of this gloomy analysis of the congressional vote — heck, they even got Alcee Hastings to vote against it! — it does put one in mind of Tom Lehrer’s Folk Song Army (they “may have won all battles, but we had all the good songs”).
My brother was at YearlyKos and you can see his panel on C-SPAN. His presentation starts at about the 21 minute mark. It’s surprisingly blunt.
I thought of going, but couldn’t quite face Las Vegas, which I’ve successfully avoided so far. And then when Caroline got the PUSH gig, it was easy to stay home and renew my appreciation for single parents.
Photo update:
Via TalkLeft, a pointer to Amnesty International’s Swiss chapter’s vivid, shocking, trompe- loeil trilingual poster campaign. The French, at least, translates as “This exists. Not here, but now.”
Robert Waldmann discovers that Google, and therefore a Google-dependent parent, is neither infallible nor omniscient.
Word is that this Thursday, June 15, at noon, the result of the chard check ballot of the would-be bargaining unit will be announced on the UM Campus at the Episcopal Church.
Recall that the settlement of the strike requires the unionizers to get a 60% super-majority in order to be recognized. But it gave them until Aug. 1 to achieve this total.
I have no inside information as to what this early announcement means, but logically it must mean either that they got the 60% or that so many people have voted that 60% is no longer possible. I’ll bet on the former.
Incidentally, the strike-related student discipline cases grind on. Because the formal charges were not filed until the summer term, the cases will be heard in camera by a single dean, acting as judge and jury; had charges been filed before the end of the school year, the students would have been entitled to much more process, to students as members of the tribunal, and to representation before the tribunal. So that’s not so great, unless the administration were to use this as an occasion for clemency — something for which I hope, but I’m not holding my breath.
Via Talkleft, an eyewitness report from Guantanamo.
Horrible stuff.
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