Parenting in the Time of School Shootings

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In my 20+ years of working within the public school system before retirement until now I saw school shootings go from random occurrences that no one heard about much before Columbine to common occurrences that happen almost every year. No amount of school security procedures has helped to stop school mass shootings as it as evidence has shown that no amount of training of school staff and students can combat weapons of mass destruction. But I admit to being bias.

Hope is all we have, as parents in a country whose leaders can’t be motivated by the slaughter of children in their classroom.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a40183069/parenting-school-shootings/

TIME Magazine Ruined Herpes Journalism. Here’s How To Fix It.

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In 1982, TIME Magazine published a very special cover story: “The New Scarlet Letter.” In five dense pages full of salacious personal anecdotes and some incredibly horrifying doctoral testimonies, TIME set the standard for herpes journalism. I read the entire piece with my friend (and this site’s editor) Gabe Rosenberg so that you don’t have […]

TIME Magazine Ruined Herpes Journalism. Here’s How To Fix It.

The Washington Post: Top Stories | If ‘Love is Blind’ had been submitted for peer review

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In another life I am considered an “ABD.” ABD is another way of saying ‘All But Dissertation’ or as I think of it as ‘All But Damned.’ It means that you devoted years of your life in a quest for the elusive doctorate degree but that the dragon of the dissertation defeated you and you never obtain the elusive degree.

I say this because what usually defeats students is setting up a research project working with real people similar to the show ” Love Is Blind.” I know that I have already spoken about the show in a previous post but as the media keeps bringing up new positions I will keep with
the highlights. Thoughts?


Thank you for submitting “Love is Blind: A Social Experiment” to the Journal of Social Science. We sent your “documentary” out for review and received three referee reports in response. Two of the reviewers expressed qualified support for some portions of your research into whether reality show contestants could fall in love, sight unseen, and then follow through on a wedding within 40 days of meeting the other person. In particular, Reviewer 1 praised “the sensitive conversations about race and racial identity that occurred between Lauren, Cameron, and Lauren’s family over the duration of the experiment.” Reviewer 2 observed: “So many hot messes on this show. I loved it!” Reviewer 3′s most positive comment was, “there were a lot of nice throw pillows in the pods.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/16/if-love-is-blind-had-been-submitted-peer-review/

“Love Is Blind” Highlights Reality TV’s Fatphobia Problem | Teen Vogue

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In this op-ed, writer Mathew Rodriguez unpacks how Netflix’s dating reality show “Love Is Blind” purports to test whether sparks can fly between people who have never seen each other before — yet doesn’t include fat people.

This is a recurring theme for reality television, unless the program is specifically formatted around the person’s differences be they disability or size they don’t have a place in reality television. This perpetuates prejudice and biases against those that are different. So I’m going to submit that the show not only needs someone male and female who is considered fat but someone who is disabled also.

://www.teenvogue.com/story/love-is-blind-proves-love-fat-phobic

U.S. vs. Huawei: Is future of the internet at stake?

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I have always questioned why Huawei was the one company of all the world companies previous and current to be worth banning. I knew it had to be more than just the ‘backdoor’ security threat that no other country seemed to fear. Now I’m sure it comes down to who has control of the next level technological dominance for the internet of all things and/or 5G.

U.S. vs. Huawei: Is future of the internet at stake? https://news.yahoo.com/the-us-vs-huawei-is-the-future-of-the-internet-at-stake-163936354.html

The Couples (and Throuples and Quads) Out to Prove That Open Relationships Are More Normal Than You Think

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The Couples (and Throuples and Quads) Out to Prove That Open Relationships Are More Normal Than You Think


“Non-Monogamy,” the first episode of a new six-part CBS documentary series called Speaking Frankly, sets out to prove that consensual non-monogamous relationships are more common than they seem. Alex and Bridget are just one couple (or throuple… or quad) that CBS interviewed for the project, which also features interviews with experts on sexuality, anthropology, and family law. Over the course of 22 minutes, the short doc dismantles the stereotype that non-monogamy is synonymous with adultery or a wild orgy.

https://news.yahoo.com/couples-throuples-quads-prove-open-090724121.html

CBSN ORIGINALS EXPLORES THE EVOLVING NATURE OF MONOGAMY

“Non-Monogamy” Available Now Across CBS News’ Digital Properties

Oct. 25, 2019 – Relationships between two people are complicated. But what happens when you add additional partners into the mix? For years, monogamy has dominated what society perceives as, and allows to be, “normal,” but in the modern era, those parameters are softening. According to a 2016 study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, one in five people have engaged in consensual non-monogamy at some point in their life. Individuals across the country are taking part in forms of non-monogamy as they feel more free to engage in relationship structures that work best for them.

The newest CBSN Originals documentary, “Non-Monogamy,” highlights individuals engaging in various forms of consensual non-monogamy including polyamory, a triad monogamous relationship, a polyfidelitous closed quad, and a committed couple dating outside of their marriage. As Dr. Elisabeth Sheff puts it, “I think of it almost like a menu, a relationship menu, and that serial monogamy is at the top of the menu, and probably the most popular dish that people order, but there’s all these other things that people can order now, and they are.”

“Non-Monogamy” is the first episode in a new six-part CBSN Originals series titled “Speaking Frankly,” which will bring viewers into conversations on topics that are often seen as impolite or too controversial to fully discuss. The first installment of “Speaking Frankly” will tackle the ways we relate to one another in the modern world through first-person interviews on topics, from non-monogamous relationships to personal experiences with child marriage in America, to how pornography is warping perspectives on sex and relationships, to the unprecedented challenges of raising children in a rapidly changing world.

The documentary is available now across all CBS News digital properties including CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 streaming network. The documentary will also stream on CBSN on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 8:00 PM, ET.

WHAT IS POLYAMORY AND HOW DOES IT WORK

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/dating/polyamory-meaning-open-relationship-dating-sexuality-louis-theroux-altered-states-a8541506.html%3Famp

John B. King: Descendants of slaves and slave owners meet in Maryland – The Washington Post

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In my retirement I’ve been researching family history. That makes stories like this one very important to me. My grandfathers were born in 1880 and 1906 so unless their parents were born after April 9, 1865 it’s possible their parents were enslaved. It turns out that on each side of my family tree my grandparents had a parent that had been born into enslavement. For me that means coming to grips with the fact that I am just 3 generations from being born into enslavement.

Two families — one black, one white — shared a harrowing history. Then they met.

Slavery unexpectedly connected the Kings and the Beckers.


John B. King Jr., education secretary for President Barack Obama, climbed up the wobbly ladder for a depressing glance at the sleeping quarters. But he quickly came down and crossed his arms, wondering about the people who lived in this cramped space more than 150 years earlier: His enslaved ancestors. Lydia King. Charles King. Anne King. So many Kings once lived here, on this Maryland farm, still owned by direct descendants of the slaveholder, Thomas Griffiths

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/23/two-families-one-black-one-white-shared-harrowing-history-then-they-met/?arc404=true