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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Cuomo: Nearly $1 billion loan for commuter rail safety I only ride these trains occasionally, but this is reassuring.
- Arizona sheriff's re-election chances called into question
- No Mor Chikin: Johns Hopkins Students Ban Chick-fil-A From Campus
- Eight women finish first week of US Army Ranger test
- Nevada Assembly rejects transgender 'bathroom bill'
- Hawaii poised to become 1st state to raise smoking age to 21
Bad News
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- U.S. top court makes it easier for people to sue the government
- Supreme Court settles latest Fourth Amendment dog-sniff case
- Little Rock approves anti-discrimination protections
- U.S. allies conduct 18 air strikes in Syria, Iraq: military
- Transgender teen settles with state over license photo
- Michigan Music Festival That Excluded Transgender People To Shut Down The headline is misleading. Transgender men were welcome. Only transgender women were excluded.
- This Miami Bakery Will Make Anti-Gay Cakes, But Not For The Reason You Think I think this in an excellent response from the bakery. I suspect they won't get a single order.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Hungary says FBI chief insensitive, superficial on Holocaust Exactly. While there were Hungarians and citizens of a number of other countries who enthusiastically joined the campaign to eliminate Jews from Europe, it was Nazi Germany that created and mostly carried out the plan.
- Woman strip-searched at Detroit airport settles lawsuit
- New Orleans going smoke-free in bars, other public places
- California county to pay man beaten by deputies on video
- New Cards for Medicare Recipients Will Omit Social Security Numbers
- New York Investigates Whether Boy Scouts’ Employment Practices Discriminated Against Gays
Bad News
- Judge Orders Hearing for 2 Chimps Said to Be ‘Unlawfully Detained’ While this order only requires there to be a hearing, I don't think non-humans should be getting human rights. Ironically, I know the judge who made this order.
- Pakistan cyber bill threatens free speech, privacy: rights groups
Monday, April 20, 2015
Micro movie review
Woman in Gold The true(ish) story of the recovery of some of the artwork stolen by the Nazis from the family of Maria Altmann, finely played by Helen Mirren. The main item at issue was Gustav Klimt's famous portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, which by 1998 had become a national treasure of Austria (renaming it "Woman in Gold," thus obscuring its Jewish connection):
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I remember the years-long case, though not in any detail. As much as the film is the story of Altmann's restitution battle, it is just as much the story of the revival of her memory of the events in Vienna when the Nazis came in, and her new-found desire to make Austria face up to what it did to its Jewish citizens. The film does have its faults, not the least that the outcome is quite predictable. However, I found it quite absorbing, even knowing the results. Mirren's performance carries the whole thing.
I don't think it is that much of a spoiler to say that Altmann was successful in her fight--in fact, the painting is hanging in a museum five or six hundred feet from where I am sitting right now.
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I don't think it is that much of a spoiler to say that Altmann was successful in her fight--in fact, the painting is hanging in a museum five or six hundred feet from where I am sitting right now.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Iraq clears massive oil refinery of IS
- Ohio settles civil rights groups' lawsuit over early voting A good compromise. I wish we had early voting in NY.
- Arpaio immigration unit tarnished by misconduct allegations He should be found in contempt and thrown in jail.
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