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Oct. 24th, 2011 05:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Apparently, I missed the republicans fillabustering a jobs Bill fragment designed to prevent the firing of teachers, policemen, and firefighters, for the price of a half percent tax increase of half a percent on incomes over a million dollars, because the savings accounts of the ultra rich are way more important than jobs of ordinary people or the health of the economy to Senate Republicans.
* I haven't even started trying to catch up on lj. PM or email if there's something I need to see right away.
* neo_prodigy found, an interesting bit of history generally left out of the textbooks: http://eshusplayground.tumblr.com/post/11444478477/what-you-dont-see-in-the-u-s-history-books-poc
* All this Shakespeare not having written his plays thing always smacks of classism to me. People don't want to believe that the son of a glover could write poetry and plays that have stood the test of centuries. Instead, they want to make the "real" author a nobleman. it's creeps me out, it does.
* Walking dead Thought: every episode, i get angrier and angrier that they seem to have taken book Andrea's awesome and given it all to Meryl. I say this as someone who loves many things about the show, including the little backstory bits the comic books lack.
* Tough talk oabout poverty from Mellissa Harris Perry: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44996082
* An associated conversation about race and occupy Wall Street (I admit, I've been uncomfortable with the occupy language, which is why I've been mostly avoiding calling it that): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44996131
* Rachel Maddow explains the facts of life to Mitt Romney, who clearly isn't aware of them: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44983707
* I haven't even started trying to catch up on lj. PM or email if there's something I need to see right away.
* neo_prodigy found, an interesting bit of history generally left out of the textbooks: http://eshusplayground.tumblr.com/post/11444478477/what-you-dont-see-in-the-u-s-history-books-poc
* All this Shakespeare not having written his plays thing always smacks of classism to me. People don't want to believe that the son of a glover could write poetry and plays that have stood the test of centuries. Instead, they want to make the "real" author a nobleman. it's creeps me out, it does.
* Walking dead Thought: every episode, i get angrier and angrier that they seem to have taken book Andrea's awesome and given it all to Meryl. I say this as someone who loves many things about the show, including the little backstory bits the comic books lack.
* Tough talk oabout poverty from Mellissa Harris Perry: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44996082
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* An associated conversation about race and occupy Wall Street (I admit, I've been uncomfortable with the occupy language, which is why I've been mostly avoiding calling it that): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44996131
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Rachel Maddow explains the facts of life to Mitt Romney, who clearly isn't aware of them: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44983707
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy