Progressive Politics from Memphis
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It’s Ok to be Takei
I’ve been bogged down with work and a very abbreviated school semester (3 weeks=1 semester of course work. Oy!) but I saw this and decided it needed to be posted. ht/ the twitters
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From Booker T. Washington
via Ellyn
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Still Rising #memflood #tnflood
A couple of days ago I asked, what 48′ means. I still can’t really say for sure, but it now includes the evacuation of 1000 homes. Officials are distributing the flyers by hand. Beware, there have been fake flyers up. Always be sure to ask anyone distributing flyers about evacuations to identify themselves. The Mayor…
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Misunderstanding “Planning”
There seems to be, either a fundamental, or intentional misunderstanding of the word “planning”. Planning is what you do when you know the potential consequences of your actions. Planning is taking that knowledge, and moving forward to either prevent, or ensure a specific outcome. The absence of planning makes one a slave to unintended consequences.…
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Ethics v. Stacey Campfield #camporialaw
It’s been a few weeks since my last post on the $1000 State Sen. Stacey Campfield tried to squeeze out of entertainer and author Del Shores for the luxury of debating Campfield on his Don’t Say Gay bill. In that time, the bill has moved through the State Senate and is scheduled for a vote…
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Mr. Ross goes to City Hall
So yesterday, I spoke to City Hall about the redistricting ordinance. I thought about doing a lot of things like showing up with 9 petitions and asking which ones applied to me, bringing a horde of people as “supporters”, all kinds of theatrical stuff. In the end I decided against it for a couple of…