Tomorrow morning at 6:30 in Rm 302, I will bring donuts/pastries, fruit, juice and chocolate milk. Please post in comment mode if you are able to bring any food for your brain. Also, post any Qs here till 10 pm and I will do my best to answer them.
While you "Cram for the Exam" here is some more reading on Super PACs:
(From 2010)
The Washington Post has again published a similarity matrix of Supreme Court Justices voting. Three years ago I posted about using a multidimensional scaling procedure to convert this similarity into a visual plot. Since that time Rehnquist and Souter have left the Court replaced by Roberts and Sotomayor. Before Elena Kagan completes the Senate's review process to replace Justice Stevens, here is a plot of the newer Court. Again an arbitrary algebraic sign places Justices Stevens, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Ginsburg on the left of our plot and Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito on the right. Again, Justice Kennedy is the most centrist justice falling just a little right of center.
You will not see all of these cases on Tuesday's test, but this is the best outline out there on the YOUDIA that details any that you might see. Post any questions on these or anything else in the comment section.
The Four Little Girls story of murder of African-American school girls in Alabama in 1963 made the country take stark notice of civil rights crimes in America. But what about an estimated 276 girls kidnapped from school three weeks ago in Northern Nigeria?
The citizens have noticed, but till now the government is still in the dark in how to get the school girls back safely. And the world seemingly has yet to take full notice.
Oprah and Bono (my guy) have lent star power to the issue of girls' education in Africa. But it has largely been unchanged in sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 57% of all children, even less for girls, go to primary school. That includes Nigeria, which was rated as the ninth most deadly place to be a child in the world.
Is the future (and only hope for sub-Saharan Africa, sans South Africa) if girls can rise to be women and women leaders?
Bono thinks so in his essay on Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Time 's 100 Most Influential People Issue.
The situation is dark in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa litterally, too. This re-run post cam after last year's Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium.
Tomorrow morning at 6:30 in Rm 302, I will bring donuts/pastries, fruit, juice and chocolate milk. Please post in comment mode if you are able to bring any food for your brain. Also, post any Qs here till 10 pm and I will do my best to answer them.
