Let's start with our connected updates....
Eric Garner's death was officially ruled a homicide, caused by the police chokehold. We'll want to see how Mayor DeBlasio responds - here is his round table discussion from July 31st.
And for more on Hobby Lobby....Ruth Ginsburg did an interview with Katie Couric to elaborate on her thoughts on the case. Did you know she's known online as the Notorious RBG? Funny to see her response to this.
It is hard to find truly neutral articles on the situation in Gaza right now. I'm not sure that I am well informed enough to know what source to trust. These talking points are helpful, anyways, for some concrete information, and this opinion piece from the online version of Israel's Haaretz newspaper is well said.
I don't fully understand how it is really a thing that the House bills that just passed in response to the immigration crisis with child migrants are explained as bills that won't really become law. The point of the energy and manpower that go into these are....? But here is how Ann Coulter wishes we'd deal with it. She's something.
In news we haven't yet discussed-- the ebola virus epidemic in Africa has killed more than 700 people- we've started hearing about it more because the first two ebola patients are being transported this weekend to the US.
This piece in The New Yorker goes into the arguments between the transgender community and radical feminism-- the gist being, no man-turned-woman could ever truly understand what it is to be a woman because of the "caste system" of gender. Interesting dinner convo piece.
Ok.. so I may have watched The Bachelor/ Bacherlotte a few times in the past...not for a while...but check out this clip, if you have any interest, where a contestant actually admits that there is some real hanky panky happening when they go back to the fantasy suite. Ha ha. (Legitimately- my source was NPR for this!)
And for the teacher crowd - last week I missed the NY Times Magazine article excerpted from the new book Building a Better Teacher. This op ed adds some more insight-- and talks about Deborah Ball's work at University of Michigan- she just happens to be my childhood best friend's mom. Some of the reactions against common core's approach to emphasis on mathematical process over computation speak for themselves, I think.
And, just for fun, some related (not particularly timely) images I stole from mic.com.
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