Saturday, April 6, 2024

What's the matter with Iowa? Apparently, Kimmi the Clown thinks there aren't enough qualified women in Iowa to serve on state boards and commissions

 
Headline:  Des Moines Register, 4/3/2024

Once a troglodyte, always a troglodyte!
The requirement was put into law in the 1980s as a way to increase the number of women serving on state boards and commissions. The Iowa Legislature added the requirement for local bodies in 2009. 
At the time, Reynolds was a state senator and voted against the legislation.

Kimmi plays the Paula Prentiss role.



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GET ME REWRITE: "Who is that clown on the Ottawa County Board?" asks mlive

 
"That clown" is positioned on the right in the top row.

Headline:  mlive, 4/4/2024
So who is Joe Moss? 
To answer that question, MLive secured and sorted through dozens of public records, business filings, and press reports. We also interviewed a handful of people who know Moss, though we had hoped to interview more. Dozens of interview requests for this story were rebuffed, including by Moss, his parents and others in his inner circle. 
Still, through our reporting, a portrait emerged of a husband and young father of two children; an uncompromising conservative and gun owner, known to open carry; and a media-savvy entrepreneur using new technologies to promote his beliefs about parental and religious rights. 
He is both a hero and a villain, depending on who you ask. He is either [a] a man dedicated to saving his neighbors from a woke world gone too far or [b] a narrow-minded conservative determined to force his personal views on a resistant electorate.
Correct answer:  b.

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March 2024.  

February 2024 
Chris Vander Sys challenges Ottawa Impact whackjob Gretchen Cosby for seat on Michigan's Ottawa County Board.  (2/21)

January 2024

2023


Thursday, April 4, 2024

Lee Genberg (1932-2024) Warren High School class of 1950

 
1950 Dragon yearbook


1967 Warren City Directory
1983 Warren City Directory
  • Genberg Laverne L & Evelyn H retired h463 Pleasant Drive
  • Genberg Lee L & Delores E retired 12 Lily Pond Circle 

The popularity of Lee as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at classmate Collette.


Other members of the WHS class of 1950 (32):
2023

2022
John Wester.  (11/23)
John McGarry.  (5/21)

2021

2020
James Gray.  (7/10)
Mabel Morse Horner.  (2/4)

2019
Donald Cable.  (8/27)
Clifford LeRoy Maze.  (7/9)
Robert Lundmark.  (7/1)
Donald Baldensperger.  (1/26)

2018
John White.  (10/12)
Geraldine Downey Gustafson.  (10/7)

2017
Helen Quiggle Kroemer.  (7/9)
Dale Witherell.  (5/31)
Betty Reynolds Mahan.  (4/4)
Helen Kane Scalise.  (2/23)

2016
William Lemmon.  (8/30)
Joan Kondak Vernon.  (8/3)
Barbara Reist Cook.  (7/7)
Mary Sikstrom Bauer.  (6/20)
Robert Jones.  (6/4)

2015
Lewis McCullough.  (7/6)
Joan Marlene Campbell Berdine.  (2/18)

2014
Glen Valentine.  (8/18)

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: John Barth

 



New York Times, 4/2/2024
Mr. Barth was a practitioner and a theoretician of postmodern literature. In 1967, he wrote a critical essay for The Atlantic Monthly, “The Literature of Exhaustion,” which continues to be cited as the manifesto of postmodernism, and which has inspired decades of debate over its central contention: that old conventions of literary narrative can be, and indeed have been, “used up.” 
As his foremost inspiration, Mr. Barth cited Scheherazade, the tale-spinning enchantress who nightly wove stories to keep her master from executing her at dawn. He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate. 
From 1965 to 1973, Mr. Barth taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo (now the University at Buffalo), where he was a member of a renowned English department that also included the critic Leslie Fiedler.


2024
Anne Edwards.  (2/4)
Ellen Gilchrist.  (2/15)
Tom Shales.  (1/21)
Vernor Vinge.  (4/1)

2023
Martin Amis.  (5/31)
Richard Anobile.  (3/18)
Russell Banks.  (1/11)
A. S. Byatt.  (11/18)
Ted Bell.  (2/8)
Tim Dorsey.  (12/10)
Herbert Gold.  (11/24)
David Harris.  (2/8)
Paul Johnson.  (1/15)
Milan Kundera.  (7/17)
Cormac McCarthy.  (6/19)
Kevin Phillips.  (10/19)
Betty Rollin.  (11/26)
Norman Rush.  (4/7)
Mimi Sheraton.  (4/9)
Charles Simic.  (1/16)
Donald Spoto.  (2/18)
D. M. Thomas.  (3/31)
Fay Weldon.  (2/2)
Bill Zehme.  (4/1)

2022
Roger Angell.  (5/24)
Melissa Bank.  (8/7)
Raymond Briggs.  (8/20)
Thomas Cahill. (11/16)
Philip K. Dick.  (11/20)
Bruce Duffy,  (3/13)
Todd Gitlin.  (2/8)
Rebecca Godfrey.  (11/11)
Ron Goulart.  (2/7)
Doris Grumbach.  (11/10)
Robert Hicks.  (3/8)
Thomas Hoving.  (12/19)
Maureen Howard.  (3/19)
Hilary Mantel.  (9/26)
Nancy Mitford.  (4/4)
P. J. O'Rourke.  (2/24)
Julie Powell.  (11/5)
Thomas Pynchon.  (12/17)
Dennis Smith.  (1/27)
Susie Steiner.  (7/27)
Larry Woiwode.  (5/19)

2021
F. Lee Bailey.  (6/11)
Kim Chernin.  (1/10)
Angelo Codevilla.  (10/10)
Stephen Dunn.  (6/29)
James R. Flynn.  (1/30)
Larry Flynt.  (2/12)
Lucinda Franks.  (5/11)
Joseph Galloway.  (8/25)
Norman Golb.  (2/22)
Charles Grodin.  (5/20)
Maria Guarnascheilli, book editor.  (2/18)
James Gunn.  (2/21)
Tony Hendra.  (3/7)
Donald Kagan.  (8/20)
Hans Kung.  (4/9)
Lyn Macdonald.  (5/15)
Janet Malcolm.  (6/18)
Peter Manso,  (4/10)
Ved Mehta.  (1/12)
Marie Mongan.  (3/22)
Deborah Rhode.  (1/28)
James Ridgeway.  (2/16)
David Swensen.  (5/13)
Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)
Athan Theoharis.  (6/14/)
Ed Ward.  (5/16)
Michael Thomas.  (8/19)
Adam Zagajewski.  (3/27)

2020
Ben Bova.  (12/17)
Clive Cussler.  (2/29)
Betty Dodson  (11/11)
Pete Hamill.  (8/6)
Shere Hite. (9/13)
A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)
Roger Kahn.  (2/15)
Randall Kenan.  (9/29)
John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)
Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)
Barry Lopez.  (12/29)
Alison Lurie.  (12/7)
Charlers Portis.  (2/19)
Julia Reed.  (9/8)
John Rothchild.  (1/22)
Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)
Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)
Charles Webb.  (6/30)

2019
Warren Adler.  (4/23)
Kate Braverman.  (10/28)
Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)
Dan Jenkins.  (3/10)
Judith Krantz.  (6/27)
Paule Marshall.  (8/27)
Martin Mayer.  (8/3)
Wright Morris.  (7/25)
Toni Morrison.  (8/12)
Anthony Price.  (6/17)
John Simon.  (12/1)
Sol Stein.  (9/30)
Brad Watson.  (8/2)
Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)
Herman Wouk.  (5/20)

2018
Neal Thompson.  (6/17)

2017
Kit Reed.  (10/1)

2016
E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015

2014

2013

What's the matter with Iowa? Kimmi the Clown signs bill promoting religious bigotry as practiced by Crackpot Christians

 
Headline:  Des Moines Register, 4/2/2024
"Thirty years ago, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed almost unanimously at the federal level," Reynolds said in a statement. "Since then, religious rights have increasingly come under attack. Today, Iowa enacts a law to protect these unalienable rights — just as twenty-six other states have done — upholding the ideals that are the very foundation of our country."  
[snip]
Courtney Reyes, executive director of the LGBTQ rights group One Iowa Action, said in a statement that the law will allow broad religious exemptions to otherwise generally applicable laws.\ 
"There’s no denying it: this bill is aimed at discriminating against LGBTQ+ Iowans, single parents, people needing reproductive health care services and many more," she said in a statement.

2024

2023

2022

Day 1252 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, MAGA Orange Menace edition)

 
attack of the clown show zombies
Starring orange menace Donald Trump
Headline: Wisconsin Public Radio, 4/1/2024
Trump won Wisconsin in 2016, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by about 23,000 votes. Turnout was up for both parties in 2020, when he lost Wisconsin to Biden by about 21,000 votes. 
“We had a great election. The second time, we actually did much better than the first time we won in Wisconsin,” Trump said. “The second time, we did much better. But I guess it was delayed. They found out a lot of wrongdoing and after the wrongdoing was found, people said, well, he actually did win.” 
Biden’s victory has withstood multiple audits and reviews, as well as lawsuits and recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties.

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