Did you say, "The Bored of Education?"

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of Brown verses the Board of Education with Thergrud Marshal making the argument for the integrationist protagonists.  Of course the idea that you could legislate all racial discrimination in education out of existence with a single Court decision may be a bit grandiose.  Now here it is sixty years later- - but if there are any busses running - - it’s busses taking White kids past their old neighborhood school to these “Charter” schools, which is now the new segregation, which so many minorities couldn’t begin to afford.   Clearly the respective races are still receiving a highly unequal education, and I’m wondering whether this was something those Justices of 1954 foresaw for sixty years down the line.  It used to be that it made sense to speak of a “generation gap”.  One generation would have children that moved from the farm into the big city.   Or parents without a “Liberal Arts” college education would spawn children who got to go to college.  But over the past forty years there is much less evidence of any generation “gap”, by which I mean that- - well for instance - - many who voted for George Mc Govern might well have turned around and voted for Reagan and Bush when they got older.   If there were indeed young people in the “Democratic sweep” of 2008 for congress and the Presidency- - could you for instance say “added to those eight years or so of young people, now you have a whole NEW group of liberal young voters that’s being ADDED TO those other eight years of liberals, making a block of guaranteed 16 years of liberal voters?

John Mc Cain gave a good speech in support of a VA investigation, because we owe it to our fighting men.   You’ll get no complaint from me if the Republicans want to trash Obama on this one.  KEIB wasn’t having health products on.  I wanted to hear sports on KNX because if TV news had their way, every waking moment would be about the San Diego fires.  The LA Kings beat the Ducks last night 6 to 2 in game seven played in Anaheim, and are now moving on to play the Chicago Black-hawks in the Western finals.  I did have Chris Matthews on - - fighting the “draft” but it was a replay of what I saw yesterday.  But I switched to “political contests of 2014” and got some useful information, including a better understanding of why the Democrats figure to do so disastrously in the US Senate races this year.  In terms of the Senate, it’s the “third wave” of the Tea Party attack of people that are just now coming up for election after the tea party’s inception in 2009.  The Show tried to be optimistic about democrats being able to win, mostly in highly competitive races in southern red states.  But if the Republicans win there- - it means that all of these hair brained bills that the Republican House has passed will sail right through the Senate too, and the President may be under increased pressure to sign them.  And some may be appropriations bills with a “poisoned pill” in them the Republicans will be able to sneak through and the President has to sign.  There is something going else with the Republicans by means of a protective measure.  People like Mitch Mc Conell are “taching” to the right in order to nose out tea party challengers, but therewith the hope that an established Democrats, particularly these old time democrats with “roots” would be able to pick off a lesser known tea party candidate this year because the political climate has changed since 2010 and the tea party is in a weaker negotiating position.  However someone like Mitch Mc Conell may have to “make a statement” in accepting the concession of a primary loser to the effect that “I agree with your position even though I beat you in a head to head contest” and the question is can a Democratic candidate hold these main line Republicans liable for the statements their tea party opponents made in the Primaries?  It’s funny how Chris Matthews must have “taken the day off” Friday, just like Ed Schultz did, and just like Randy Rhodes might as well have done. 

You know I’m a little confused.  Leo Le Port says he hasn’t kept anything on CD’s in a long time and most computers don’t even have a disk player any more.  That’s puzzling because obviously - - well callers still want to work with BURN and RIP functions.   One guy seems to have deduced that his RIP function was slowed down by the “error correction option” after all other possabilities had been eliminated.  Although you used to hear about “Blue Ray” all the time and it was just within the past ten years that Blue Ray became dominant over HD-DVD’s.  Leo says that European river cruises are the hot item right now in travel.  Glen came over asking for a third cigarette of the day.  The thing is I’ve only got about twelve left that have to last me the next three days, which will never happen.  KABC has entered their third round black-out in basketball NBA playoffs.   That could run for two weeks.

The Preakness began the race and wrapped up coverage on NBC about ten minutes earlier than the Derby.  California Chrome won once again, but got more of a challenge this week in the guise of Ride On Curlin, who apparently came in seventh in the Derby.  The jockey of California Chrome (dressed in the same colors) had to “make his move” sooner than he’d planned during the home stretch.  This gave Ride On Curlin opportunity to make a run for it but didn’t come that close to catching the Chrome.  Curlin came in 2^nd.  The contest between third and fourth place was a close one with Social Inclusion beating out General L Rod.   I missed the song and the parade of horses before the race.  Thirteen horses since 1978 have won the Derby and the Preakness, and then failed to win the Belmont and it’s mile and a half course.

Anybody who reads far down on my blogs ought to be commended.  There is altogether too much shallow reading with everyone in their own “echo chambers” of texting and Tweets and re-tweets.  It’s almost as if people have evolved a disposable memory because nothing sticks today, and tomorrow is an eternity away.  Having said that I highly recommend my postings in this blog from February.  If I had any sense I would class my blogs by category.  I would have political stuff all in one blog.  And I’d have science and math and dimensions and Einstein and all that.  I’d devote another blog just for Federation news.  M wonder how my blogger readership numbers would break down by each category?  I’m only averaging low in the double digit numbers as it is, and that’s pathetic.  I wonder why I bother.  There is nothing I could conceivably hear on the Mc Laughlin group tonight that would make the four against one tea party piling on Eleanor Clift- - - worth relating.  I guess the best thing you can say is is that they are the Sanest groups of advocates for Tea Party policy you’re likely to hear. I’d devote another blog just for the generic subject of music.  I’d have a blog for personal relations and family.  And I’d have a blog for Philosophy and Ethics.  Nobody is into that.  People used to be into the Supernatural “for real” as opposed to now when it’s all just so much fiction on TV.  There is so much of this hocus pocus occult stuff on the CW and other TV stations quoting from some alleged text to make it sound official.   Up till about 1993 there had been a major interest in psychic phenomina and talk of “other dimensions’ somehow.   “Unsolved Mysteries” and shows like that were popular.  But in the fall of 1993 when the X Files was a TV series- station producers decided “Nobody takes any of this stuff seriously but it makes great fictional script material”.   So just like that anything involving “Spirituality” or religion or the occult- - was consigned to the dust bin of history - - and took it’s (rightful or wrongful) place - - - along with Santa Clause and the tooth fairy as part of child lore perhaps - - but it wasn’t the sort of thing any functioning adult now took seriously.