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We are following other stories around the world this morning, including this one from Ireland, where because of the eurozone crisis many people don't trust the banks anymore. They'd rather put their money, if they still have some, in art or antiques, and they had an opportunity to just that when an Irish aristocrat named Ambrose Congreve died last year at the age of 104. He left behind a mansion full of treasures, and the contents of his estate have gone up for auction. Here's NPR's Philip Reeves.
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: People have come from far and wide. They're crammed into a big tent at Mount Congreve, a country estate with world-famous gardens, tucked amid the woods and rolling fields of southeast Ireland. A treasure trove is going under the hammer. There are lacquered screens and vases from Imperial China. Rare books, Georgian silver, vintage wines, chandeliers and gilt mirrors and enough antique furniture to fill a palace.
FONSIE MEALY: Everything is on offer. It's a complete clearance of the entire estate.
REEVES: That's auctioneer Fonsie Mealy of Mealy's Fine Art, who're conducting the auction in association with Christies. Ambrose Congreve, whose property they're selling, was a multi-millionaire, a friend of Winston Churchill and the Rothschilds. He's from a Protestant, Anglo-Irish aristocratic family that's been here for centuries. Unlike many, he stayed on after Ireland won independence from Britain.
Fonsie Mealy and his brother George - a fellow auctioneer - knew Congreve well.
F. MEALY: He was an amazing man. And an iconic figure in many ways. He was a great man to entertain. He was full of beans up to the end. A great character, he had a great sense of humor.
REEVES: Congreve also had a home in London, next to the Royal Family at St James Palace.
George Mealy says that's where Congreve did his art shopping.
GEORGE MEALY: He got most of it through London because he had a lot of spotters for items that he might be interested in.
REEVES: And he just liked collecting.
G. MEALY: Absolutely, he loved collecting. He loved nice things and he had unbelievable taste.
REEVES: As the auction approaches, calls start coming in from as far afield as China. Other buyers, around the world, will bid via the Internet.
REEVES: In the tent, there are agents from across Europe. George Mealy says the Irish are here too.
G. MEALY: Oh, a lot of Irish, yeah, and a lot of the wealthy Irish are being represented here as well today.
AUCTIONEER: Eleven thousand, 12,000. Twelve thousand is enough. Twelve thousand the bid. Twelve thousand the bid. Twelve thousand. At 12...
REEVES: The auction begins, and the money starts flying. Some items fetch far more than the listed price.
MIRIAM MCDONNELL: Obviously, there's some tapestries on the wall there facing us, and I think that's Chinese wallpaper.
REEVES: Outside, Miriam McDonnell and her two daughters are peeping through the windows of the Big House. Congreve gifted his house and his gardens to the Irish nation, but not the art and antiques. McDonnell regrets his collection is being broken up.
MCDONNELL: It just lacks foresight. And I think our generations afterwards will say why did they do it? How could they have done it?
REEVES: These are hard times in Ireland. Property prices have collapsed. Trust in banks and markets has withered away. Those who have money are looking for somewhere else to invest it - so they've come here.
EDDIE SCOTT: I still hold stocks in Irish companies and, but I would say if you put a split on my investments that around about 70 or 80 percent is in antiques.
REEVES: Eddie Scott collects silver. He says it's not easy, investing in antiques.
SCOTT: You have to be extremely careful. You have to do your own homework.
REEVES: A few feet away, a group of people's examining Lot Number 492. It's Congreve's grey Phantom Six 1969 Rolls Royce. Only a few hundred of these were made - mostly for heads of state.
Michael Hogan is hoping to buy this one.
MICHAEL HOGAN: I have always been prudent with my investments, and conservative in my approach towards them. So that's - it has given me the opportunity to pick up some bargains now.
REEVES: How many Rolls Royces do you have?
HOGAN: Now that's a tricky one. I hope my mother's not listening.
HOGAN: I presently have five.
REEVES: But you love these things.
HOGAN: Oh, they're an addiction.
AUCTIONEER: Twenty-three thousands, newcomers back. Twenty-three are back. Twenty four here in front. Twenty four...
REEVES: Hogan doesn't get the Roller. But it is staying in Ireland. A man from Dublin buys it, for $56,000 - proof that, even in these hard times, there are still some big spenders.
Philip Reeves, NPR News.
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By letting the House take up the Senate's fiscal cliff-dodging legislation that raises income tax rates on the wealthiest earners, Speaker John Boehner answered affirmatively a question that had been on many minds: Would he allow an up-or-down floor vote on a bill opposed by most fellow House Republicans?
Until the New Year's Day vote, Boehner had generally operated the House under what was known as the Hastert Rule. Named for former Speaker Dennis Hastert, it required a "majority of the majority" to support legislation before the speaker approved a floor vote.
But in the case of the fiscal cliff legislation passed by the House in a 257-167 vote, the majority of the majority opposed the bill, in large part because it lacked the significant spending cuts they desired.
Its 151 House GOP opponents even included members of Boehner's leadership team — Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California.
That Boehner, from Ohio, allowed the House to vote on the Senate bill arguably sets a precedent for his speakership, and perhaps gives a preview of what could be the shape of things to come. Or maybe it just sets a precedent for the most contentious legislation, whose passage is deemed crucial to keep the economic recovery alive and otherwise keep at bay a parade of horribles.
Sarah Binder, a George Washington University political scientist, wrote on The Monkey Cage blog that there appears to be a new House rule book.
"On one of the most important House votes of the year, the minority ruled. The Hastert Rule (go forward only with the support of a majority of the majority party) has been displaced (at least for now) by the Boehner Rule (sometimes a majority of the majority has to be rolled for the sake of the party's reputation)."
Of course, this assumes that Boehner gets to retain his speakership in the new 113th Congress, which is sworn in Thursday.
There is plenty of conservative outrage — including accusations that Boehner doesn't represent them — and renewed calls for his ouster as speaker.
But you can find plenty of people, including Republican House members, who think Boehner will keep the speaker's gavel in the new Congress.
Speaking on C-SPAN Wednesday morning, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a conservative Republican from South Carolina, said:
"I don't think you'll see a change in the speakership. The real question is: Are the next two years under the Boehner speakership ... will the next two years of leadership be like the previous two years of leadership? The conservatives in the party really feel like we're losing the spending battle.
"We have not cut spending. In fact, the one place we were supposed to cut spending was on the sequester [or spending cuts that were supposed to start with the new year's arrival]. But that got delayed [because of the deal]. So our question as conservatives is, when are we going to start this battle over spending? We've waited two years now. We're not going to wait much longer."
While conservatives like Mulvaney are clearly restive, it appears there isn't a large-scale mutiny brewing within the House Republican conference to oust Boehner in the way Newt Gingrich was forced out in January 1999.
But Boehner's power could be tested soon if he needs to again rely on House Democrats to deliver votes needed to pass other controversial legislation in coming weeks — like the postponed spending cuts of the fiscal cliff sequester, or raising the nation's debt ceiling.
It's not universally accepted that the divisions within the House Republican conference will again require Boehner to get Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's help in getting crucial fiscal legislation across the finish line.
Speaking Wednesday with All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel, Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., said he didn't see what happened with the New Year's Day vote as foreshadowing what's likely to happen in coming weeks and months.
"I would expect the deals going forward to be majority Republican and minority Democrat as opposed to the other way around," Cole said. The lawmaker explained that legislation with tax hikes for the rich and a lack of spending cuts was terrain favoring Democrats, as he saw it. By contrast, bills that push spending cuts and entitlement reforms will be more Republican-friendly battleground, Cole said.
Cole said he expects Boehner will be re-elected speaker, in part because of the lack of a plausible alternative.
It's worth noting that Boehner never vowed that he would only bring legislation to a floor vote if he had a majority of a majority.
Weeks before he assumed the speakership in 2011, a reporter asked him at a news conference if he would abide by the Hastert Rule. Boehner said:
"I'm — I'm going to run the House my way, work with members on both sides of the aisle to decide what should come to the floor and what shouldn't come to the floor. I don't think we need to just set up hard rules and hard walls that just get in the way of doing the will of the American people. If we're open with — to each other and we're willing to listen to the American people, we'll have — we'll have good debate every day, and we'll have a healthy outcome."
And even Hastert or his successor, Pelosi, diverged from that rule at times. As the Associated Press' Charles Babington wrote:
"Pelosi, as House speaker in 2006, violated the 'majority of the majority' rule by letting Republicans provide most of the votes for an Iraq war funding measure she disliked.
"Hastert, the Republican speaker from 1999 to 2007, overrode the rule at least twice. In one case, he let Democratic votes carry the load on a stem cell research bill everyone knew President George W. Bush would veto. Hastert also yielded to pressure to let the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill pass even though most House Republicans opposed it."
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While Sen. Whitmire criticized TYC for "spending money out there like a drunken sailor," the Statesman editorial board today offered a more measured analysis of the situation with which I mostly agree:A day after blasting the Texas Youth Commission for continued financial mismanagement, two key legislative leaders this afternoon requested a full state audit of all spending by the still-troubled agency.
"The Texas Youth Commission is continuing a pattern of, what appears to us, a willful disregard for the spending parameters set by the Legislature," Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, and Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, said in the letter to Auditor John Keel.
"TYC was placed into Conservatorship due to gross fiscal mismanagement. We want to ensure that gross fiscal mismanagement is not continuing.
The letter continues: "Instead of spending money retaining and attracting new JCO's, TYC has chosen to increase central office personnel. In addition, we have seen evidence that large salary increases are being given to executive staff members. Yet today, our juvenile correctional system sits without a functional classification system or proven treatment and educational programs.
"We understand that they are continuing to spend millions of dollars worth of capital improvements on facilities that were recommended for closure by your office utilizing funds to continue their operations that were not appropriated for that purpose."
This week, the agency released a proposed "regionalization" plan that would shrink, but not close, several units, while opening new lockups and halfway houses. The plan includes a major facility, costing as much as $25 million, to be built in the Houston area and to house 150 youths.
As Nedelkoff reasonably points out, "A significant number of youth and their families live in or near large urban areas. However, TYC facilities are rarely located within reasonable traveling distance from those urban areas."
Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, criticized the plan with a pointed remark: "Twenty-two percent of their beds are vacant right now, and they're proposing to build a bunch of new units run by the state? That's crazy."
The commission, Whitmire said, should have recommended closing some units in "remote, rundown rural areas" and put more emphasis on developing community-based programs rather than locking up youths.
It's going to take legislators, though, to take on the job of actually closing Youth Commission units in rural areas. They are there because some lawmakers over the years pushed to get them to provide at least some state job opportunities for constituents in high unemployment areas.
Nedelkoff is right to want youths whose offenses are serious enough to lock them up kept closer to home — even if society is quite willing to ship them to the wilds of West Texas. It's one thing to give up on a 35-year-old lifelong criminal. We shouldn't quit on a 15-year-old yet.
Still, the agency and the Legislature remain too much at odds. The worst abuses done to offenders may have been stopped, but reform is a long way from complete.
Here's the bottom line: TYC isn't using all its capacity, but if it actually shifted to a regionalized system with smaller facilities, it would still require new building. TYC has lots of capacity but nearly all of it's designed on the adult prison model that the Legislature has been urged to move away from.
So when Nedelkoff speaks of building 8 new halfway houses, for example, that to me doesn't seem inconsistent with expert advice the Lege received from other states and Governor Perry's blue-ribbon panel on TYC reform last year. I'm less convinced of the need for building larger lockups, like a proposed 150-person facility. If new money will be spent on construction it should go to build the types of smaller units we want to move toward in the future.
Even if responsibility for these youth ultimately shifts to the counties, new construction of smaller, regional facilities will be necessary because they just don't have capacity at the moment to handle the load. So I don't necessarily think Nedelkoff is moving entirely in the wrong direction, though I don't agree with all of the plan. But it's painfully obvious he's not done the legwork necessary to convince the legislative leadership they need to undertake this shift. Since Mr. Nedelkoff will be leaving soon, that Sysiphian struggle will fall to someone else.


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Sol 1124: Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
Using an onboard focusing process, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity created this product by merging two to eight images previously taken by the MAHLI, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.
Curiosity performed the merge on October 5, 2015, Sol 1124 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 06:09:51 UTC. The focus motor count position was 13392. This number indicates the lens position of the first image that was merged.
The onboard focus merge is sometimes performed on images acquired the same sol as the merge, and sometimes uses pictures obtained on an earlier sol. Focus merging is a method to make a composite of images of the same target acquired at different focus positions to bring all (or, as many as possible) features into focus in a single image. Because the MAHLI focus merge is performed on Mars, it also serves as a means to reduce the number of images sent back to Earth. Each focus merge produces two images: a color, best-focus product and a black-and-white image that scientists can use to estimate focus position for each element of the best focus product. Thus, up to eight images can be merged, reducing the number of images returned to Earth to two.
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Controversial Policy Bars Children From Bringing Bagged Lunch to School Without Doctor's Note [POLL]
A school in Richmond, Virginia has recently started enforcing a new rule that has parents up in arms. Following instructions laid out by the federal government, children are not allowed to bring their own bagged lunch to school without a note from a physician.
This note was posted earlier this month on www.my2crazycurls.com by the mother who received it. In light of the concern that some schools are serving GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in their lunch menus, parents are speaking out against this new policy. Many do not like the fact that the school has taken away or tampered with their control of their own child's diet.
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At any rate, my attention span held out for several tweets on a single topic tonight, and that's just cheating. That's trying to make Twitter do what the blog does, and doing it a lot worse. So, in true blogger spirit, I hereby embark on a long exposition on something I know almost nothing about. I'm back!!
I'm disqualified from writing this one on at least three levels:
- I have never seen the (AmE) TV show/(BrE) programme Glee.
- I have never voluntarily belonged to a choir. ('Chorus' class in school was my living purgatory.)
- I have consistently found excuses to leave early when required to attend choir concerts.
- I hated that Journey song the first time (a)round, and I hate it even more now that it's re-released in a form that is mind-bendingly more over-earnest than the original.
At any rate, my interest was piqued by this Guardian article about Glee, which includes the line (emphasis added):
The comedy-musical show charts the story of a group of teenagers in a US high school show choir, or glee club.Not knowing a lot about the subtypes of choirs, I had to look these things up. Wikipedia (best that I could do) said this about show choir:
A show choir (originally called 'swing choir') is a group of people who combine choral singing with dance movements, sometimes within the context of a specific idea or story.So, show choir is original to AmE, but used in BrE now too. But the definition of show choir didn't particularly sound like the glee clubs that I remember from my school and (AmE) college/(BrE) university days. In particular, I don't remember them dancing. So I looked up glee club. The OED says:
Show choir traces its origins as an activity in the United States during the mid-1960s, though cultural historians have been unable to determine the date and location of the first "true" show choir group [...]. Two groups of touring performers, Up with People and The Young Americans, traveled extensively throughout the country in the 1960s, performing what could be called the show choir concept. When students and directors of the day saw these organizations, they would, in turn, start similar groups at their high schools.
glee-club, a society formed for the practice and performance of glees and part-songsWikipedia expands on this a bit:
A glee club is a musical group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs—glees—by trios or quartets.And that's what I remember. The Wikipedia article goes on to say:
Although the term "glee club" is still used in some places, including the American TV series Glee, glee clubs have largely been replaced by the show choir in schools throughout the United States. Show choirs tend to be larger and more complex than the traditional glee club.What I'm less clear on —and I'm sure you Gleeks out there can help me— is (a) whether it's ever called a show choir on Glee and (b) whether the meaning of glee club shifted pre-Glee to mean something more like a show choir. (I suspect not--Glee is a really good title for television, so I would think it might be an opportunistic appropriation of the term.)
The meaning of glee club has certainly shifted now in the UK at least, since schools (see the Guardian article) are leaping on the Glee bandwagon and re-naming their choirs glee clubs (or is that Glee clubs?). What's interesting (to word-nerdy dual citizen me, at least) is that although the Guardian felt the need to explain the term glee club to its UK readership, it is an originally BrE term. Here's Wikipedia again:
The first named Glee Club was founded in Harrow School, in London, England, in 1787.[1] Glee clubs were very popular in the UK from then until the mid 1850s but by then they were gradually being superseded by choral societies. By the mid-20th century, proper glee clubs were no longer common. However, the term remained (and remains) in use, primarily for choirs found in Japanese and North American colleges and universities, despite the fact that most American glee clubs are choruses in the standard sense and no longer perform glees.The term didn't entirely die out in the UK, but the only recent pre-Glee uses of it that I can find are figurative uses or plays on the term (referring to the emotion glee, rather than the song type). For example, the headline of a 2001 Simon Hoggart column, "Two-party disharmony with the Tory glee club", describes this group of Conservative Members of Parliament:
John Redwood rocked gently with happiness. Eric Forth's tie, a modest effort of only six or seven colours, seemed to wink at us as he too rolled about in pleasure. And Ann Widdecombe does a wonderful fake laughter turn. She throws back her head, waves her arms in the air, and opens her mouth as wide as you do at the dentist, in order to imply that she might otherwise implode with the sheer effort of keeping all that hilarity inside.Now it's back in UK consciousness, but with a different meaning again.
As a cultural side note, I was thinking about the fact that I've known several adults in England and South Africa who belong to non-church choirs. In the US, I was never aware of non-church, non-school choirs, with the exception of gay choirs (and I never lived in a city big enough to sport one of those). I've also been known to opine that clubs are more popular in England than the US. (In a small city in Texas, I had to travel 90 miles to get to a Scrabble club. In England, I moved to a not-large city that had two.) And I'm not alone in that--commentators on Englishness like Jeremy Paxman and Kate Fox have noted this tendency, since there seems to be a clash between Englishpeople's "obsession with privacy and [their] 'clubbability" (Fox, Watching the English). Kate Fox has this to say about English club-joining:
If you do not have a dog, you will need to find another kind of passport to social contact. Which brings me neatly to the second type of English approach to leisure [...] — sports, games, pubs, clubs and so on. All of these relate directly to our second main method of dealing with our social dis-ease: the 'ingenious use of props and facilitators' method. (Watching the English)So, I was wondering whether there seem to be more choirs here because choral music is more popular here (it definitely is in South Africa and Wales) or because there's a greater tendency to join organi{s/z}ed groups. And then it hit me. It's that non-church bit. It's not that Americans don't join things. They do. They join churches (and other religious groups, but mainly churches), and with that comes all sorts of activities, clubs, and committees. UKers are less likely to organi{s/z}e their hobbies and social needs around a church, because they're less likely to go to church, and it's generally more socially acceptable not to go to church in the UK. (This site has church attendance at 44% in US and 27% in UK. According to this site, 53% of Americans consider religion to be very important in their lives, versus 16% of Britons.) It may be that gay men's choirs became so strong in the US because of a need for joinable singing groups among people who were less likely to turn to the community church to fulfil(l) that need. The rest of the US population might dip into church to satisfy their need to sing, but in the UK there are plenty of other outlets. (In fact, my old reflexologist belonged to a non-religious Gospel choir--they just like the style of singing, not the religious message.)
Come to think of it, I do know Americans who belong to non-religious community singing groups, but these are (orig. AmE) barbershop quartets.* Am I wrong about community choir-joining? Should barbershop quartets count as choirs, when the things I'm thinking of in the UK have far more singers? Let me have it in the comments...
*OED notes that barber(-)shop as a name for a haircutting establishment is not originally AmE, but is "chiefly North American" nowadays. I'm not quite sure whether there's a replacement in the UK--Better Half just talks about going to the barber's and we both marvel all the time that yet another hair-cutting place is taking over yet another place that used to be a nice shop. Do other people in Brighton get their hair cut every two weeks? Do people travel for miles for a Brighton haircut? How can the population possibly support this many hair stylists?


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Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz checks back in with the winner of the last round of Three-Minute Fiction, Carrie MacKillop of Charlotte, Vt. Round 9 of the writing contest has begun and runs through next Sunday. Listeners can submit their story online at www.npr.org/threeminutefiction.
Just a reminder now that Round 9 of our Three-Minute Fiction Contest is open. It's where we ask you to write an original short story that can be read in about three minutes, so no more than 600 words. In each round, we have a judge with a new challenge. And this time, it's novelist Brad Meltzer, and he's come up with this.
BRAD MELTZER: Your story must revolve around a U.S. president who can be fictional or real.
RAZ: Now, remember, the story has to be under 600 words and only one entry per person. Now, the deadline to get your story in is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time one week from today, September 23rd. Once we get all the submissions in, we're going to start posting standout stories at our website, npr.org/threeminutefiction.
We're also going to be reading excerpts from some of those stories. The winning story will be read on the program in its entirety, and the winner will appear on this program as well. And for the first time, the story will also be published in the December issue of the Paris Review. Now, if you missed last round, here's an excerpt from the winning story. It's "Rainy Wedding," written by Carrie MacKillop of Charlotte, Vermont.
SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: (Reading) When the boy became ill and had to miss his first day of kindergarten, he had asked what school would be like. She started a ritual that day, explaining to him in detail everything he was missing so that he and she could experience the life he would never have.
RAZ: That's an excerpt from the story "Rainy Wedding." That was the winner of our last round, Round Eight of Three-Minute Fiction. It was written by Carrie MacKillop, and the story was read by our own Susan Stamberg. And Carrie MacKillop from Charlotte, Vermont, is on the line with us now. We reached her over the phone. Carrie, it's great to have you back.
CARRIE MACKILLOP: Thank you. It's great to be here.
RAZ: How have things changed for you since you won Three-Minute Fiction?
MACKILLOP: Well, winning Three-Minute Fiction, it was - is a little like winning the "American Idol" of creative writing.
MACKILLOP: I have three agents that have been courting me since they heard the story on NPR. And I was invited to a writer's workshop out in Oregon called Fish Trap where I got to meet Luis and...
RAZ: Luis Alberto Urrea, the judge of our last round.
MACKILLOP: Yup. I spent a week with he and his family out there. And my day-to-day life hasn't changed a whole lot, but there's an incredible amount of opportunity. And it's been really fun and exciting.
RAZ: And remind us, you run a shop, right, in Charlotte in Vermont. You sort of sell breads and organic foods and things like that.
MACKILLOP: Right. It's a little country store in a little town in northern Vermont.
RAZ: Do people ever stop in and say, oh, I heard your story on NPR.
MACKILLOP: Every single day. In fact, it amazes me.
RAZ: Every...
MACKILLOP: I just - two days ago, someone came in and said, I heard your story on NPR six months ago, and it was so moving I haven't ever forgotten it.
RAZ: It was such an amazing story. Are you working on something new right now?
MACKILLOP: I'm working on several different things. The main focus right now is to turn "Rainy Wedding" into a novel. I've talked to a lot of people and thrown this idea around. And it's really fleshed out in my mind. I'm working a lot on that. I'm actually trying to put together a sitcom about my store, because it's just, you know, some of the reality is stranger than fiction. And that's a lot of fun.
RAZ: Carrie, as you know, Round 9 of Three-Minute Fiction was launched last weekend with our new judge, Brad Meltzer. There is still another week for listeners to submit their stories. You have been in the exact position that many of our listeners have been in in the past. So what advice would you give people who are kind of either on the fence or in the middle of writing stories right now?
MACKILLOP: My advice is to just go for it. When I wrote the "Rainy Wedding" story, it was the last day you were taking submissions. And I knew that there were already over 6,000 people that had entered. And I didn't think anyone would actually read my story. And I really wrote it from the heart with the idea that no one would read it. And that was a really effective thing for me to just go for it.
RAZ: That's Carrie MacKillop, the winner of our last round of Three-Minute Fiction. Carrie, thanks so much for the update.
MACKILLOP: Thank you. Thanks for calling.
RAZ: To find out more about Three-Minute Fiction, the rules and how to submit your story, go to npr.org/threeminutefiction, and Three-Minute Fiction is all spelled out with no spaces. And good luck.
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Because it made my afro hurt...
Specifically about what working moms want.
I've just gotta do it, because it made my afro hurt.
ABB's Rant about the shit on NBC that made my afro hurt…
#1. All women are not fretting over 'having it all'.
And since when has having it all automatically included having a child?
Shame on you, Dawn Fratangelo!
A bitch didn't sign on for that definition of 'it all'. Cease reporting on the concerns of women as if poor women, rural women and single women do not exist. We do…we have issues too…and we are a part of that workforce you were speaking of. While working mothers struggle to hit their goals…a bitch prefers 'goals' to 'have it all'…other women at work also struggle to hit our goals. Add us all up, Dawn, and you've got a lot of women who are dealing with a lot of shit…real world shit that includes, but is not limited to, the issue of parenting and working outside the home at the same damned time.
Jesus to Gawd and back again, this shit is so blatantly from a position of privilege that a bitch questions the legitimacy of a study that clearly didn't talk to anyone outside of the upper middle class bubble.
Who the fuck wrote that shit? What did they do, go to Greenwich and start knocking on doors?
Pretty close. Ms. Fratangelo's report sites a study done by Careerbuilder.com…and Lawd knows that Careerbuilder.com is the first source you think of when searching for demographically balanced and culturally diverse research on America's workforce!
Lawd, give me strength.
#2. A bitch works…I'm single with no kids…and my ass struggles too. I struggle to find a balance between work, family (yeah, we have them too), the second job that is co-guardianship of a mentally challenged adult (and don't sleep, there are more of us out there than you think), service to my community and the oft dreamed of but oh so elusive social life I've heard tell of.
Don't act like the only people scaling back on hours are parents. Shit, some are scaling back to assist their parents. A bitch did a major lifestyle change to move back home and participate more actively in my brother's life. Yet my ass can't remember the last time someone covered something close to my reality.
If an alien from Mars studied America from the perspective of television and news how balanced would their concept be?
Mmhmm, think about it.
Leave the ivory tower, Dawn, and take a subway ride...you need to experience some shit beyond the Upper Trendy Side of NYC.
#3 Since the report dealt with the challenges facing working mothers, a bitch thinks it would have been a great opportunity to address some shit. Single parenting challenges…divorced and remarried with kids from several sets of parents challenges…same-sex couple challenges…and the challenges of poor women and the ever increasing working poor.
Report or step back and exit stage left. Glossing over the diverse reality women face today in favor of a homogenous generalization is bullshit.
Oh and a quick question…just wondering…do father's feel guilt over missing big events too? Or did Careerbuilder.com only question women?
And…um, Dawn…wouldn't that be a curious question to follow up on? Are working men struggling to have it all…and if not, why the fuck not?
My afro feels a lot better now.
26 comments:
"Makes my afro hurt" has got to be the phrase of the week. Possibly the month.
Even being a mom who sure, does have mama/work issues (although, eh, not rich), I couldn't agree more! I hate the one-sided, horribly researched shit that ends up in the media about "women's issues."
Getting stuck on the upper middle class mommy/work issue is too easy. It's dismissive of women as fully functional, multi-dimensional beings. It's more than a bit irritating, it's sick.
And yeah, screw men, apparently. My husband, the step-father/full-time father of my two children, deals with daddy/work issues but he's also a multi-dimensional being with other issues in life.
Grrr. Thank you. - 4:29 PM
There are certain segments in society who eat up reports like this. There are people who still resent the fact that some women who have children work outside the home. This report sounds like another way to lay a guilt trip on women with kids who have jobs outside the home.
- A White Bear said...
I hate this stuff. Yesterday, there were two BBC "news" reports on how "scientists show" that unmarried people die far younger that any other demographic. The picture is of two white plump male and female hands with rings on them, joined. Only buried somewhere in there way deep down is the fact that they mean to say smokers die younger, alcoholics die younger, and drug users die younger, and those people tend to live alone. What does that have to do with whether Jesus and the federal government have blessed me with a legal partner? Choosing to live alone is not necessarily choosing not to have friends, lovers, and others who care about me. Die, compulsorily heteronormative crap!
- J said...
These stupid studies make my afro hurt, too, and I couldn't pull off an afro if my life depended on it.
I am not struggling with 'having it all', because I'm just struggling to get by day to day. I'm not rich, just the kind of middle class where we both work and have very little between us and poverty, if we were to get ill or lose a job, we'd be in trouble pretty quickly.
Seems like so many of these studies, NBC, Salon.com, etc., focus only on the wealthy, the middle class, or the poor, but never really all three. I would love that. And, also, yeah, let's talk about men and their issues. Let's make it a study that is inclusive. How hard would that be? - 4:36 PM
- CP said...
I'm not struggling to have it all. Hell, I am not even struggling to have it "some". I am just working to make sure that my family has everything that they NEED, not necessarily want. And in my line of work, health insurance is a NEED.
Tell Princess Dawn to stick that into her microwave and defrost it.
- Elvez73 said...
Yeh that was a pandering ass piece if I have ever seen one, All that shit you see on mainstream media assumes that all women want the same thing, damn consumerism is killing us, cool blog by the way.
- Jaice Novak said...
My heart goes out to single working women. My mother raised me and I thank God that I came from a single parent household because the lower you are on [so-called] society's standard, the more you are able to see, at times. Since I am stereotypically at the bottom of the barrel of when it comes to how I was raised, I can see my side and others. It's funny how people that are far up society's ladder can't see us in the middle or lower class. So what gives them the knowledge of knowing what working women want. When I was growing up and watching my mom, from what I saw, what working women wanted was a day off.
- A White Bear said...
J, I guess I fear that even when they do research across class divides (like, they consult someone other than a journalist for their data), the journalist in charge of reporting the information skews it to be about bourgeois white heteronormative "ideals" anyway. Given the fact that all these BWH people do nothing but complain about how miserable it is to "choose" between "a career" and "a family," I'd say it's time to stop considering anything they do as "ideal."
Here are the links for those gross BBC reports. My memory lied about the picture, which, though it shows male and female white hands with rings, does not depict the bourgeois plumpness I recalled in my reptilian-commie brain. - 8:43 PM
What these folks are continuously saying every single time they do these studies is that women should stay home. Isn't it curious that these studies are constantly being performed on women. As if women are abusing their children for wanting to or having to work. Father neglect their kids so much it isn't even funny. Even when they are with them they are often not there. I saw this curiosity just two days ago. A man his wife ant thier three children came into a coffee shop. The father took out his portable playstaion, plugged his earphones in and started to play his game. His family was sitting right there. His eldest son went and sat beside some other guy who was also playing a game and talked to him. The kid did not siddle up to his own father to inquire about the father's game. The mother took care of the other kids and that was that. I thought this is bizarre. This man is completely ignoring his family. If you go out with your family you should spend time with them. Or maybe that is just insane thinking. Media refuses to do studies about how father's ignore thier kids. No, they want to crucify women instead. This is a woman hating society in which we live! Look at how wehn they take about single parent households the stories somehow become about how women are dropping the ball. The mothers are the ones staying with thier kids. The fathers are walking away leaving thier kids in poverty. Somehow medi does not look at it from that angle.
I say to all women, do what you like. Hell yeah, have it all and get seconds if you can.Life is too short not! - 8:56 PM
I can see why your afro hurt AB.These reports make moms of all types and women of all types have wars against each other. If a woman works outside the home its her choice. If a woman chooses to stay at home to raise her kids, so what, it's her choice.
I cannot stand the media how they complicate such simple facts of life. - 9:14 PM
- Vera said...
This is a perfect example of media bias.
Once again, they are pandering to what they think is their target market. - 9:26 PM
Doesn't General Electric own the majority of NBC? General Electric, among numerous other things, manufactors consumer products.
I swear these news programs click a few buttons on a computer screen and check a few boxes and VOILA! A story is spit out. I can think of a huge list of things that they never report on. Originality and usefulness is seriously lacking in the news today. - 11:52 PM
I am also sick and tired of the whole "opt-out" name for women who do leave the work force.
I call BULLSHIT.
Its not opting out if the work environment is an unwelcoming, sexist, racist, homophobic place. Its not opting out when a woman's reproductive abilities is seen as a liability and when women are constantly belittled and harassed for exhibiting 'female traits'.
At least in my field a lot of women leave the work force not because they would rather be at home but because they would rather not work in an environment that treats them like shit.
The language of opting out implies a choice that doesn't really exist. Women you can afford to are *opting out* of a crappy working situation not necessarily *opting for* being a homemaker.
Thanks as always for the great post ABB.
-Nazzy - 9:56 AM
- Jeffrey Ricker said...
Good fucking god, what is this, the 1950s? Has Dawn been in a time warp or something? How about a report on why the public think slightly less of broadcast journalists than they do of Satan?
I'm glad to see, at least, that on their Web site, the story is rated pretty damn poorly by their readers. - 11:10 AM
- Gina said...
Gawd knows, I loves jah, but...As a 50 hour a week working mother to 3 I have to decide between living in a house in a safe area ( read: not high end) or an apartment.) Yes, I would love for my kids to have the better things in life, but rightnow just the "THINGS IN LIFE" make me work outside the home 50 hours a week...Where is this balance that folks talk about all the time...I sure as hell ain't foung it yet!? - 11:53 AM
- Gina said...
Either you ar the most richeous bitch on the planet...or you are pulling my chain "BIG TIME". Right ON...Mah sistah! - 12:00 PM
- Bloody Whore said...
First time I come to this blog.
Any Study or media crap that puts women in a square box is useless. I am a single working mom, I work for what my child and I need, not what we want. I don't relate to that BS at all. What is wrong with people? ugh. - 12:52 PM
- GayProf said...
Most people these days have a choice whether they want to have children, particularly if one is in the middle class. Perhaps these parenting folk should have thought more seriously about if they really had the time, energy, and resources to parent before starting the "life is so hard" whine.
I am not sayin', I am just sayin. - 1:18 PM
- Dixie said...
Thank you for speaking up for women who don't fit in the tidy mold NBC would like to imagine we're all in.
- ~Macarena~ said...
Men are allowed to abandon their children and families because the blame for everything is placed on women. "Parenting" is still really "mothering." Short biographies of men often don't include their children, whereas women's always do. In fact, a man's biography may expound on his career and say nothing of any relatives, but a woman's will name her parents and their occupations, then her husband(s) and child(ren), before, possibly, mentioning something else about her.
Clark Lee, it's more gender than age. Men who wait until their 40s to become fathers could do so in order to save up enough to be the primary caregivers, thus allowing the 20-something mothers to work during their most financially productive years. But, oh, no. Why should they?
Jerks have the luxury of being jerks because someone is picking up the slack. As long as the woman w/ the three kids takes shit from the man ignoring them, he can do what he likes. Maybe for her, having the jerk around is easier than officially raising the kids by herself. You could refuse to clean, cook, or do laundry for a jerk, but you can't ignore the kids, and you're just going to lose anyway. You'll just end up living in filth. Jerks can wait you out because they know you care and they don't. - 1:50 PM
- Shark-Fu said...
Baby, honey, m'dear...sounds like you carry a lot of assumptions about the word bitch, but you sure can type it...you just did!
No one with an English degree should fear the unlimited power of language. Shame, shame and double shame on you, son.
The word Bitch will not hurt you...but a bitch just might.
Thou shalt not trifle to scold this bitch in my house...obey that simple rule or get thee gone!
This Goddess ceased seeking approval years ago...
Toodles! - 5:21 PM
This bitch converted her 'fro to locs almost three years ago, but her nappy roots hurt in empathy.
THANK YOU for reminding me once again why this bitch has to stay away from network news and most mainstream media in general.
Women simply can't catch a break no matter what. Working moms should stay home with their kids. Single moms should be married. Women without kids should be getting pregnant by any means necessary or, if they're past childbearing age, they should just go away. It's all code for "stay the fuck in your place."
Ever read "The Handmaid's Tale"? Still one of my all-time favorite novels. - 9:10 AM
I missed this broadcast on NBC. I should prolly take my head out of the monitor more often.
Very interesting take on this subject. As I'm engulfed in my own single parenthood woes, I never stopped to think about issues of people without children. - 11:44 AM
From the MSNBC.MSN.com report: "Deborah Epstein Henry — a work-life expert — says creative scheduling is key."
First of all, where do I sign up for a job like "work-life expert"? Do they offer that class at trade & technical college? If I could scam lawyers into paying me for my work-life expertise, I probably could have--or get away with--it all. Especially if all I need to come up with is the insight that "creative scheduling is key."
Second, why on earth were you wasting your precious (to your readers) energy watching NBC Nightly News? As Vera points out, they pander to their market--that is, the demographic for which their sponsors will pay the most. To the limited extent that the "news" content is more than a vehicle to carry advertising, it serves as propaganda advancing the interests of the network's corporate parent, as anonymous says. You can be sure that a report on the circumstances of "other" women--you know, the ones who "choose" underpaid or demeaning jobs, or who "opt" into struggling through the bureaucratic hell of inadequate social services for aging or disabled relatives--would be even more offensive. - 10:52 AM
Yes, Your Afro and Mines too. This is a well constructed article on inequality in the world today.
Poor Reporting.
I'm a middle class women living in a rural area and face most if not all of the challenges discussed here. We still dont have our ice cream and cake and struggle just like everyone else.
This is a web that has been woven for us. It is time to brake the barriers. United we stand divide we fall.
So very well put. I gues she don't stand up for women rights.
Big Ups!
I'm sending my freinds to read this article. - 10:44 AM
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