Ahhh, once again it's happened - just as I said:

Like that unknown homeless black guy who got $92,000 online - just for doing what any American is supposed to do - a white woman was pretending to be in poverty and the hippies almost gave her $100,000.

It must be nice to be unknown - online - making silly comments as "Anonymous," and being lifted out of poverty, and all.

Glenn I-Like-To-Brag-About-What I've Got Reynolds doesn't seem to think anyone can be online AND in poverty.

I don't think his I.R.S. Scandal Clock is worth much, either, so I guess we're even...

 

"African-Americans consistently have expressed far less faith in "most people" than the white majority does. Racism, discrimination and a high rate of poverty destroy trust.

Nearly 8 in 10 African-Americans, in the 2012 survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago with principal funding from the National Science Foundation, felt that "you can't be too careful." That figure has held remarkably steady across the 25 GSS surveys since 1972.

The decline in the nation's overall trust quotient was driven by changing attitudes among whites. It's possible that people today are indeed less deserving of trust than Americans in the past, perhaps because of a decline in moral values."

I swear - every year - Glenn Reynolds brags more than Kanye with new nudes of Kim:

"HERE’S MY RECIPE FOR Thanksgiving Leg Of Lamb. I’m cooking three of them, plus a turkey, tomorrow."

See? People from slave states* assume their code is slick:

Glenn's really admitting they'll have two turkeys at the table.

At least, there will be, at any one he's sitting at.

*And that, my friends, was today's Nigger, Neener, Neener, Neener,...

Science - today:

“All the data shows it isn't about poor people, it’s about people who happen to be in poverty. All the data suggests it is not the person, it's the context they’re inhabiting.”

The Crack Emcee - four days ago:

"There is no context.



As soon as you guys can make that true - that there's no 400 years of underlying/surrounding/historical data, that you're willingly excluding in order to feel comfortable with your outdated ideas, and blacks are merely imagining the obstinence guys (who look just like you) gladly parade - you'll be justified in what you say."

Really - we're waiting on you to make that happen,...,...

“Republicans love people who have money”

“40% Of Veterans Need Food Assistance”

"Schools of concentrated poverty and segregated minority schools are strongly related to an array of factors that limit educational opportunities and outcomes. These include less experienced and less qualified teachers, high levels of teacher turnover, less successful peer groups and inadequate facilities and learning materials."

A couple of months ago, we reported on a charity called GiveDirectly that's trying to help poor people in the developing world in an unusual way: by sending them money with no strings attached. The idea behind this is simple. Poor people know what they need, and if you give them money they can buy it.

But to some veterans of the charity world, giving cash is worrisome. When we first reported on this we spoke with Carol Bellamy, who used to run UNICEF, and who said people might spend the money on things like alcohol or gambling.

To see whether this was actually happening, researchers did an experiment. They surveyed people in Kenya who received money from GiveDirectly, and a similar group of people who didn't get money.

The results from the study are encouraging, says Johannes Haushofer, an economist at MIT's Poverty Action Lab who was one of the study's co-authors.

"We don't see people spending money on alcohol and tobacco," he says,...

Before the coming week is over, I expect to be thrown out of my house and losing everything I own, mostly because I'm incapable of seeing the world as others do or even faking that it's remotely possible. Between the religious, the NewAge, the quacks and the con artists, of all stripes, there's just too many for me to defend against or to find shelter from.

 

It's winter here, and the first snows are falling. If my posts become infrequent, this is why. 

I did my best,...

 

Yes, Miss Crabtree, I would've handed in last night's homework, but I was too busy FORAGING FOR FOOD:

 Disadvantaged children less likely to do well at A-level no matter how clever they are

As a product of foster care, this seems pretty self-evident,...

 

“Well, if one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! — and listens to their testimony. Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person — ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” 

- James Baldwin, No Name In The Street (1972)