May 31, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Good morning! I hope you are wearing white pants. You can wear white shoes, now, too. Be wild: wear them at the same time.
- Are you doing sunscreen wrong?
- Stunning, haunting portraits of servicemen and women.
- The AJC photogs recap Memorial Day across metro Atlanta.
- Columbus, Georgia, claims to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. Other cities disagree.
- In no state, and certainly not in Georgia, can someone making minimum wage afford a two-bedroom apartment.
- Kennesaw State students built a pretty nifty electric go-kart.
- Municipal stormwater management: not sexy, not exciting – unless it’s eroding your front yard.
- In which Daveed Diggs gives a shoutout to everyone who finds joy in his blue jumpsuit.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Article about ad blocking software. Sign me up! Being bombed with ads is just a plain nuisance. Does anyone have any they use on their Iphones?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/business/international/smartphone-ad-blocking-software-mobile.html
Wish I could have taken credit for the perspective on this, but alas, I wasn’t this clever. A buddy sent me this a minute ago and it explains just about everything relative to this Prez and the current Dem Party:
“President Kennedy put a man on the Moon; President Obama put a man in the ladies room.”
Nuff said…
Actually… The DOJ and DOE ruling were generated by a federal court of appeals ruling that favored the transgender student. The Supreme court refused to hear the case. I read the DOJ Dear Colleague letter, the DOE Emerging Practices report, the OSHA policies, the related privacy/health record requirements and anti-bullying and harassment rules for K-12. (Because it part of my job, not because it is fun and enjoyable.) The DOJ is stating a publicically funded school has to have a policy in place that has to meet the Title IX requirements of the non-segregation of students based on their sex, sexual orientation and gender-nonconforming status. That’s it. Every state, school district and/or board can decide what their policy is as long as you do not segregate.
This is a mole hill issue. You put a privacy toilet room in a gang restroom that is allowed to be used by ANY student in that girls or boys toilet room, you allow transgender students public access and you allow those students who do not want to chance running into a trans student in a restroom a secure facility. Most gang restrooms already have HC toilet rooms anyway, you just extend the wall around the stalls from ceiling to floor. Problem solved.
I don’t think one could distill ignorance more efficiently than this!
Take a non-problem, add a cup or two of raw imagination, a few ounces of paranoia, sprinkle some xenophobia in, attribute the inflated problem to the wrong source, then make a tasteless and ignorant joke about it. All in 17 words. Brilliant.
Oh, and regarding Gorilla-gate? The zoo made the right call. Animals v humans? I vote humans every time. I wonder what Michael Vick’s opinion is on this?
The zoo, assumably animal rights folks, had the expertise to make the decision and did so. Distractions from the real problem: the mom needs charging, don’t know how seriously and the zoo send her a bill for one gorilla.
Sunscreen is my friend. With out it I would be a lobster. 15 mins. in the sun with out sunscreen and I start to burn. I put on a SPF 50 every morning and spray down with a SPF 70 during the day if I go out a lot. My office mate call the spray T-shirt in a can. My father, all his brothers, and his dad all had minor sun cancers through there life. His mother had Myeloma in her 30’s and again in her 80’s. I have her thin pale as a ghost Irish completion.
Umm, I don’t think you have anything on me as far as being fair skinned! While in Colombia I called myself the world’s whitest man. The combo of German, Swiss and English has done me in. I could put on zinc oxide and still burn!
Prussian/German, North Irish catholic and North Russian/Finland border. I use Zinc oxide when I go swimming. and huge floppy hats on project sites.
Dang, yall, I’m in the wrong line of work! Professional Cuddlers? LOL! Do you think they’d get clingy?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/7185809/Lonely-women-are-paying-50-an-hour-to-be-cuddled-by-strangers.html
For guys: white shoes + white belt = full Cleveland.
Sweet Jesus, y’all, I just re-read my wording for the last item I posted and… I probably could have phrased that a little better. I didn’t mean that kind of joy.