Today’s Typewriter Repairmen February 26, 2008
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Western Union might close its Bridgeton call center. If not, they’ll definitely make heavy cutbacks there.
If WU’s business is suffering because there are better USA-to-Mexico remittance options, this news doesn’t necessarily prove that, because WU’s Spanish-speaking call center, which facilitates those remittances, is in Dallas. Bridgeton closing probably proves that there is hardly any need anymore for Western Union transactions among those who speak English.
UPDATE 2/27: Another theory is that WU is going to outsource its English-speaking call center work. After all, those dastardly human resources in Bridgeton have the audacity to think that they can belong to a union, and negotiate for good wages for good work. Don’t they know that they need to learn how to compete with virtual slave labor in the global economy?
As it is, the Bridgeton facility only has about half the people working there that they did five years ago.
Yes, All Races Are Invited February 26, 2008
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But in this open casting call, non-whites need not apply. And for once, the civil rights industry won’t be complaining about it.
Film’s casting call wants that ‘inbred’ look
A movie about to be filmed in Pittsburgh is casting Gothic characters — including an albino-like girl and deformed people — to depict West Virginia mountain people.
“‘Regular-looking” children need not apply.
That’s the gist of an open casting call for paid extras for “Shelter,” a horror film starring Julianne Moore that will begin shooting in Pittsburgh in March.
The casting call scheduled for Sunday invites “men and women of all races, 18 or older,” to try out as extras, according to the announcement from Downtown-based Donna Belajac Casting. But the extras wanted for the West Virginia scenes evoke images of “Deliverance” and “The Hills Have Eyes.”
If the movie was going to be about Pittsburgh’s black neighborhoods, and the gang/thug/hip-hop look was encouraged, we would never hear the end of it. And this newspaper in Pittsburgh wouldn’t encourage people to audition.
Ethnonationalism Wasn’t the Problem Then February 26, 2008
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Writes Muller: “A familiar and influential narrative of 20th-century European history argues that nationalism twice led to war, in 1914 and then again in 1939. Thereafter, the story goes, Europeans concluded that nationalism was a danger and gradually abandoned it. In the post-war decades, Western Europeans enmeshed themselves in a web of transnational institutions, culminating in the European Union.”
Actually, WWI can’t be blamed on nationalism. In fact, it makes better sense to blame EU-style transnationalism. The reason is that in the decades leading up to WWI, secret treaties among European countries were the de rigeur of foreign policy. The theory is that since all Europe knew that every country had a secret treaty with someone, it would deter any country from attacking another. For example, if Germany invaded England, Berlin would have no clue which countries England had secret treaties with, and attacking England was the moral equivalent of attacking half of Europe, in all likelihood. The foible in that mentality, as we saw in 1914, was that a minor affair, such as an assassination of nobody in particular in nowhere in particular, set up a domino effect, thanks to the secret treaties, that ended in Europe being at war with itself.
Another Reason to Oppose Gun Buyback Schemes February 26, 2008
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On Feb. 9, Oakland police, led by state Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, offered to buy handguns and assault weapons for $250 each, “no questions asked, no ID required.” The “One Less Gun” buyback program attracted so many eager sellers that the money quickly ran out. But instead of closing up shop, the police handed out IOUs good for a future buyback. The Oakland police are now stuck with a bill for $170,000.
$250 and no ID? Talk about an incentive to steal guns. They probably wouldn’t get close to that on Oakland’s black market.
The Sow’s Ear Still Hasn’t Become a Silk Purse February 26, 2008
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Voucher study finds parity
The first full-force examination since 1995 of Milwaukee’s groundbreaking school voucher program has found that students attending private schools through the program aren’t doing much better or worse than students in Milwaukee Public Schools.
The study, released Monday in Madison, is the first from a five-year project aimed at providing a comprehensive evaluation of the voucher program, which this year is allowing more than 18,000 Milwaukee children from low-income families to attend private schools, 80% of them religious schools.
The authors caution repeatedly that stronger conclusions will come only when trends over several years can be examined, and not much should be read into this year’s results.
And the headline of this post is “that stronger conclusion” that will eventually be made.
