Links for 11/12/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Good for Governor Edgar. If immigration reform is to succeed, it will be because businesses demand it. Of course, it would be a small matter to give every student without documents an education Visa, with a fast track to H-1B and then residency and finally citizenship. Or we could just allow anyone who can prove five years of residence, regardless of status, to petition for citizenship (I am sure they can pass the test).
One of the most corrosive memes in the right wing is to decry political correctness as some form of milqutoast desire to always say the right thing and offend no one. It is not. It is simply referring to people how they say they want to be identified, particularly when the old form was deliberaly offensive (see the name of the Washington football team). I can imagine costumes can be equally offensive. As an aside, I came up with a way to refer to Africans without using the word Black, which has lost favor. Some youth get caught referring to all blacks as African-American, which is ignorant. The term of art should be Continental Africans. It avoids the equally offensive term Native, which smacks of colonialism, and equates their culture with, say Continental Europeans. BTW, Native Americans could very well be referred to as Tribal Nationals.
We were never allowed to bring gizmos, homework or newpapers to the dinner table. Breakfast was another matter - the one who got the paper first could work the crossword. I follow the same practice with my daughter, although in both cases the news might have been on in our line of sight at dinner, but not always. Of course, now my wife and daughter are with my in-laws and I am sure the same rules apply - and now that Cate is almost a teenager she might actually have something to say at dinner.
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