Weekly Open Thread
“The burning heavens reflected in a mud puddle.”
What Is important? [Reader Post]
The most important thing in the world to you is the survival of you and your family.
You need to be secure enough in your own home to sleep at night without fear; to have enough food for however many meals you and your family need each day.
To be protected from the weather.
Say What? 3/29/2011 Edition [Reader Post]
Barbara Boxer, who (eventually) vehemently opposed us going to war in Iraq, recently said of Obama going into Libya: “This is different; you’re facing a dictator who vowed…to destroy his own people.”
Bill Moyers: “{NPR is] independent reporting that toes neither party nor ideological line. We’ve heard no NPR reporter — not a one — advocating on the air for more government spending (or less), for the right of abortion (or against it), for or against gay marriage, or for or against either political party, especially compared to what we hear from Fox News and talk radio on all of these issues and more.
Fear of a Black Planet… or at least of a minority majority country… [Reader Post]
Earlier this month a demographer in Texas cause something of a stir with a report headlined: “It’s basically over for Anglos“. Fundamentally what he was saying was that within a few decades Hispanics would be the majority in Texas. Two out of three children in the state are already non-Anglo, and the minority birthrate far outpaces whites.
That was followed up this week by a report in the Wall Street Journal discussing the fact that the overwhelming majority of the growth in the United States population is coming from – and will continue to come from – minorities, particularly Hispanics and blacks.