How does a book tour ignored by or unknown to the media help you sell books, or do you care? If you could just get to the sweet spot of a few noisy and absurd but harmless protesters to drum up interest without losing your venue. Could Lomez hire some?
Does CSPAN still have book programming? Brian Lamb was the best interviewer. I wish I could remember which author he asked "What is buggery?"
I want to pass on word on the possible end of Peak Stupidity. (The website, that is.)
The pro-Sailer commentator known to some as A. E. Newman for seven years ran the Peak Stupidity blog at PeakStupidity.com. He has, this week, announced a long hiatus for his blog and possible end to all his blogging. There are certain personal reasons. But he says he remains pro-Sailer; he may well pop up at one of the Sailer talks.
He specifies the reasons for blog-retirement, and has other parting words for his readers, in his recent post "A Long Goodbye":
There are a number of other commentors over at the other place who I wish would have the courtesy of starting their own blog rather than invade iSteve.
I hope Steve doesn't mind a precis. Article/lawsuit complains that Blue NJ doesn't integrate the black/brown public schools properly with whites. Lots of data follow. White % declining nationwide, esp. in NJ. Calif public schools are only 21% white! Steve points out NJ schools have high % of Asians and Jews, so they can't all be hopelessly bad, but they don't count for the B&W-obsessed. My guess is that hypocritical blue-white NJ has long preserved multiple small school districts deliberately to keep most blacks/Hisp out of theirs, and they're lately willing to pay extra taxes to even out the funding. What's yours?
Here in NC, I believe all the city school systems were merged with their surrounding counties this century, sold as a cost saving, but it helped their integration fig leaves as city systems were trending majority minority and county, near lily white (blacks left the farm decades ago). Of course, they then raised county taxes to bring my county's buildings up to the level of the city's.
Yes, in New Jersey our school districts go along with municipal boundaries. If a town is small enough they will attend a regional high school or send their students to a nearby high school on a per-student tuition basis; but the catch is that if the sending town wants to sever the relationship and send to a different high school, you need explicit permission from the state, which they will not grant if they feel it's for racial reasons.
One example is the town of Englewood Cliffs, whose middle school is 60A/25W/7H/3B. They want to send their children to Tenafly High School, which is 52W/33A/10H/1B. However, they are obligated to send their high school students to Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, which is 52H/20B/16A/10W. Since the state won't let them out, the parents of Englewood Cliffs send their children to private schools or one of the public magnet schools; however, they are not allowed to send their children to any other general-purpose public high school, even if they offer to pay Tenafly, or Fort Lee, or Cresskill, or wherever.
That would be awful for longtime residents (I assume the H are recent), but didn't newcomers know what they were moving into? Do the majority H suppress B exuberance at all?
I don't even know if our larger counties have magnet schools, and I rarely hear about charters.
The Bergen County magnet high schools (where all three towns are located) are all excellent, but they've only been around for 25 years or so; Englewood Cliffs started this court battle in 1985. At the time DMHS was ⅔ black. I'm not sure where all the black kids moved to, perhaps neighboring Teaneck.
Anyway, if anyone want to read more about this from Education Law Center, I have attached a link. Be advised that this is not an unbiased policy analysis; the ELC "pursues justice and equity for public school students by enforcing their right to a high-quality education in safe, equitable, non-discriminatory, integrated, and well-funded learning environments. To achieve these goals, we engage in litigation, research and data analysis, policy advocacy, communications, and strategic partnerships and collaborations."
This is off the subject, but the SAVE Act is being strongly promoted and it doesn't do what people think it does. Steve, please read this article:
https://newswithviews.com/the-diabolical-save-act-puts-americans-in-chains/
"Noticing" goes "Touring."
How does a book tour ignored by or unknown to the media help you sell books, or do you care? If you could just get to the sweet spot of a few noisy and absurd but harmless protesters to drum up interest without losing your venue. Could Lomez hire some?
Does CSPAN still have book programming? Brian Lamb was the best interviewer. I wish I could remember which author he asked "What is buggery?"
Events let my readers get to see other readers, who tend to be smart and good-looking.
*Checks mirror*
Bugger!
Ralph L and I can huddle in the corner.
I will make every effort to see you in Sarasota Steve-o.
Will you come to NYC?
He had two events there in the Spring.
I missed you in the NYC area last time, and would attend if there's another shot. Many such cases?
I missed you, too, and you missed Steve's comment below this one.
I'd always like to go back to NYC, especially if somebody paid me.
I want to pass on word on the possible end of Peak Stupidity. (The website, that is.)
The pro-Sailer commentator known to some as A. E. Newman for seven years ran the Peak Stupidity blog at PeakStupidity.com. He has, this week, announced a long hiatus for his blog and possible end to all his blogging. There are certain personal reasons. But he says he remains pro-Sailer; he may well pop up at one of the Sailer talks.
He specifies the reasons for blog-retirement, and has other parting words for his readers, in his recent post "A Long Goodbye":
https://peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3129
There are a number of other commentors over at the other place who I wish would have the courtesy of starting their own blog rather than invade iSteve.
If at some point you could unlock the New Jersey school segregation post it would be appreciated, as I have some expertise to lend to the subject.
If you post it at Unz, I'll copy-paste it--if it's interesting. Don't deny Steve his pound of flesh.
LOL I can't read the original post at all
I hope Steve doesn't mind a precis. Article/lawsuit complains that Blue NJ doesn't integrate the black/brown public schools properly with whites. Lots of data follow. White % declining nationwide, esp. in NJ. Calif public schools are only 21% white! Steve points out NJ schools have high % of Asians and Jews, so they can't all be hopelessly bad, but they don't count for the B&W-obsessed. My guess is that hypocritical blue-white NJ has long preserved multiple small school districts deliberately to keep most blacks/Hisp out of theirs, and they're lately willing to pay extra taxes to even out the funding. What's yours?
Here in NC, I believe all the city school systems were merged with their surrounding counties this century, sold as a cost saving, but it helped their integration fig leaves as city systems were trending majority minority and county, near lily white (blacks left the farm decades ago). Of course, they then raised county taxes to bring my county's buildings up to the level of the city's.
Yes, in New Jersey our school districts go along with municipal boundaries. If a town is small enough they will attend a regional high school or send their students to a nearby high school on a per-student tuition basis; but the catch is that if the sending town wants to sever the relationship and send to a different high school, you need explicit permission from the state, which they will not grant if they feel it's for racial reasons.
One example is the town of Englewood Cliffs, whose middle school is 60A/25W/7H/3B. They want to send their children to Tenafly High School, which is 52W/33A/10H/1B. However, they are obligated to send their high school students to Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, which is 52H/20B/16A/10W. Since the state won't let them out, the parents of Englewood Cliffs send their children to private schools or one of the public magnet schools; however, they are not allowed to send their children to any other general-purpose public high school, even if they offer to pay Tenafly, or Fort Lee, or Cresskill, or wherever.
That would be awful for longtime residents (I assume the H are recent), but didn't newcomers know what they were moving into? Do the majority H suppress B exuberance at all?
I don't even know if our larger counties have magnet schools, and I rarely hear about charters.
The Bergen County magnet high schools (where all three towns are located) are all excellent, but they've only been around for 25 years or so; Englewood Cliffs started this court battle in 1985. At the time DMHS was ⅔ black. I'm not sure where all the black kids moved to, perhaps neighboring Teaneck.
Anyway, if anyone want to read more about this from Education Law Center, I have attached a link. Be advised that this is not an unbiased policy analysis; the ELC "pursues justice and equity for public school students by enforcing their right to a high-quality education in safe, equitable, non-discriminatory, integrated, and well-funded learning environments. To achieve these goals, we engage in litigation, research and data analysis, policy advocacy, communications, and strategic partnerships and collaborations."
https://edlawcenter.org/assets/files/pdfs/Newsblasts/elcnews_050226_EnglewoodSummaryReport.pdf
You should tell Corvinus you're my school teacher wife that he's always going on about. I promise you will never hear the end of it.
107 in LA? Wow that is very hot for September.
L.A.'s worst heatwaves often occur around Labor Day when the Pacific Ocean finally warms up.