the attitude with arnie arnesen the wed edition Feb 11

[Arnie Arnesen]

the attitude with arnie arnesen
opening thoughts: Post Dying in Darkness by Lyn Ekedahl and George Washington Carver
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opening thoughts: George Washington Carver How this scientist nurtured the land—and people’s minds. ByNicholas St. Fleur

To George Washington Carver, peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination. Carver was a scientist and an inventor who found hundreds of uses for peanuts. He experimented with the legumes to make lotions, flour, soups, dyes, plastics, and gasoline—though not peanut butter!

Carver was born an enslaved person in the 1860s in Missouri. The exact date of his birth is unclear, but some historians believe it was around 1864, just before slavery was abolished in 1865. As a baby, George, his mother, and his sister were kidnapped from the man who enslaved them, Moses Carver. The kidnappers were slave raiders who planned to sell them. Moses Carver found George before he could be sold, but not his mother and sister. George never saw them again.

After slavery was abolished, George was raised by Moses Carver and his wife. He worked on their farm and in their garden, and became curious about plants, soils, and fertilizers. Neighbors called George “the plant doctor” because he knew how to nurse sick plants back to life. When he was about 13, he left to attend school and worked hard to get his education.

In 1894 he became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College, where he studied botany and fungal diseases, and later earned a master’s degree in agriculture. In 1896, Booker T. Washington offered him a teaching position at Tuskegee Institute, a college for African Americans.

There, Carver’s research with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans flourished. He made agricultural advancements to help improve the lives of poor Black farmers like himself. With the help of his mobile classroom, the Jesup Wagon, he brought his lessons to former enslaved farmworkers and used showmanship to educate and entertain people about agriculture.On January 5, 1943, Carver died after falling down some stairs. But his contributions to the field of agriculture would not be forgotten. Carver became the first Black scientist to be memorialized in a national monument, which was erected near his birthplace in Diamond Grove, Missouri.   https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/george-washington-carver

Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.

Post Dying in Darkness
As he brought both doom and evil 
To the country that we love,
The Don had many enemies
He intended to get rid of!

One enemy he hated,
And perhaps among the most,
Was an institution quite revered—
The grand Washington Post!

Now the Donald got quite lucky,
For the owner of the Post
Was a billionaire unscrupulous,
The Amazon’s Jeff Bezos!

Billionaires can be quite greedy,
Always craving more and more.
And for Bezos, like his brothers,
Government contracts are a lore.

Jeff Bezos knew that Donald
Needed more than was quite decent.
So he quickly knelt to kiss the ring
And pledge to him obeisance.

Now Bezos slowly kills the Post,
Sabotages news-room creed,
Caters to the evil Don,
And serves the despot’s need.

We watch the poor Post wither
As Bezos strips it of its soul.
Just another dark calamity
To add to Donald’s toll.

part one: 

Charlie Hunt received his bachelor's degree in political science from Brown University in 2011, and his PhD in 2019. He specializes in American politics, and more specifically in Congress, elections, and political representation. His first book, "Home Field Advantage: Roots, Reelection, and Representation in the Modern Congress" is now available at University of Michigan Press. Here is also the author of the Substack "You Are Here", which investigates the intersection of place and location with politics, poetry, and culture.

There’s a competition crisis in America’s state legislatures – and that’s bad for democracy.

 https://theconversation.com/theres-a-competition-crisis-in-americas-state-legislatures-and-thats-bad-for-democracy-273436

part two: 

Elizabeth Lopatto is a senior writer at The Verge, where she covers how the internet is changing how we think about money: cryptocurrency, business, fintech and Elon Musk for some reason. She joined the site in 2014, as science editor, then deputy editor running science, transportation and social media, before she got tired of being an authority figure and went back to blogging.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo   https://www.theverge.com/tech/874721/epstein-thiel-musk-trump-metoo

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