I am old enough to remember Saint Ronnie Ray-gun. California went from being top in the top ten states in public education to bottom 10. He started, and we are still living being trickled down upon. Every Republican politician since has been elected on that zombie lie.
Actually there is an article in the Times called "Why do Republicans Fight Dirty? Today, right on the front page, so I can get my question answered right there and so can you if you share my curiosity.
I have a permanent reminder that the Schwarzenegger years were not a hallucination - like everyone who graduated from the University of California, my diploma is stamp/signed by the governor of the day. So I now have a PhD with that maniac's signature on it. My Australian relatives think it's fucking hilarious. Also, because Arnie got caught doing so much sexual harassment, one of the things he did in reparations was introduce annual sexual harassment training for all California state employees (including himself while he was in office). So now I'm a professor at a UC, every second year I have a mandated 2 hour reminder that Arnie was a letch.
Nah. I spent years working on laws to introduce needle exchange (because, you know, AIDS is fucking bad) and Gray Davis kept vetoing them because the prison guards union was one of his biggest donors. Once Arnie got in we re-ran all those bills and, being more of a fiscal republican than a social conservative (and not beholden to the prison guards union) he happily signed them all. So some progressive shit happened that had been held up by Davis at least, and the prison guards have more or less lost their grip on the Dems since then.
Before I even knew issa's name, I hated him. I would walk on the sidewalk and a car would blare, "STAND BACK, THIS CAR IS PROTECTED BY... VIPER!!!!!!!"
Ugh. After my 2nd child was born (emergency C section), I was one of the lucky 12% to get a case of one of the "bad strep" infections. (Apparently, there are 'good' ones.) On a Friday night, I was wandering around our second floor, high as a kite with fever, patting the walls - which seemed, just really nice, ya know? Then I came to in the hospital on the next Thursday with my doctor trying to gently tell me I had almost died.
Not fun times, but still probably better than having Ahnold as a Governor or Issa as an anything.
Well I don't object to the sexual harassment training on principle, but I do wish they'd do the research to develop a training that actually works to reduce sexual harassment (the one they're using at the moment with us has zero evidence of working). Reading all the appalling case studies is instructive though, in the "woah, someone actually thought that was a reasonable way to behave?" sense.
I am old enough to remember Saint Ronnie Ray-gun. California went from being top in the top ten states in public education to bottom 10. He started, and we are still living being trickled down upon. Every Republican politician since has been elected on that zombie lie.
Recycled lawyer joke alert
Actually there is an article in the Times called "Why do Republicans Fight Dirty? Today, right on the front page, so I can get my question answered right there and so can you if you share my curiosity.
Repost from Dom's Wonkagenda thread: they're not sending their best.
Missin out on this here trump corruption bandwagon has GOT to be killin him! I mean he was BORN for this ! HeeHee
I have a permanent reminder that the Schwarzenegger years were not a hallucination - like everyone who graduated from the University of California, my diploma is stamp/signed by the governor of the day. So I now have a PhD with that maniac's signature on it. My Australian relatives think it's fucking hilarious. Also, because Arnie got caught doing so much sexual harassment, one of the things he did in reparations was introduce annual sexual harassment training for all California state employees (including himself while he was in office). So now I'm a professor at a UC, every second year I have a mandated 2 hour reminder that Arnie was a letch.
Nah. I spent years working on laws to introduce needle exchange (because, you know, AIDS is fucking bad) and Gray Davis kept vetoing them because the prison guards union was one of his biggest donors. Once Arnie got in we re-ran all those bills and, being more of a fiscal republican than a social conservative (and not beholden to the prison guards union) he happily signed them all. So some progressive shit happened that had been held up by Davis at least, and the prison guards have more or less lost their grip on the Dems since then.
Before I even knew issa's name, I hated him. I would walk on the sidewalk and a car would blare, "STAND BACK, THIS CAR IS PROTECTED BY... VIPER!!!!!!!"
Fuck him.
1. Yea! Congrats for being a prof.2. Argggh! I'm sorry for your diploma and mandated sexual harassment crud.
Geld?
NOBODY can look more evil than cheney the dick.
EWWWWWW
Ugh. After my 2nd child was born (emergency C section), I was one of the lucky 12% to get a case of one of the "bad strep" infections. (Apparently, there are 'good' ones.) On a Friday night, I was wandering around our second floor, high as a kite with fever, patting the walls - which seemed, just really nice, ya know? Then I came to in the hospital on the next Thursday with my doctor trying to gently tell me I had almost died.
Not fun times, but still probably better than having Ahnold as a Governor or Issa as an anything.
Well, it's hardly a fair contest: who else has had as many hearts?
Well I don't object to the sexual harassment training on principle, but I do wish they'd do the research to develop a training that actually works to reduce sexual harassment (the one they're using at the moment with us has zero evidence of working). Reading all the appalling case studies is instructive though, in the "woah, someone actually thought that was a reasonable way to behave?" sense.
Fine tuning: born for the humiliation of not being good enough even for the likes of them.