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Bay Area political events: Pandemic and voting, Ruth Bader Ginsburg s legacy Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: MONDAY COVID relief: A town hall on efforts to combat the health and economic impacts of the pandemic in the South Bay with Santa Clara County Supervisor Otto Lee and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Fremont. 5:30 p.m. More information is here. WEDNESDAY Pandemic and voting: How California changes to facilitate mail voting and accommodate in-person balloting during the pandemic affected turnout, with Public Policy Institute of California researcher Eric McGhee. 11 a.m. More information is here. ....
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10. The article is free access but requires registration with the site. I have posted two very good excerpts after the jump which were tweeted by Wesley Yang. But I highly recommend reading the entire article as it is a very good summary of the troubles that have been going on in this area. Daryl Scott warns against the embrace of convenient lies by academics: if the professors are understood to be nothing but propagandists, it will hurt those institutions. https://t.co/L07y5djFa1pic.twitter.com/im5pNqnURM Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 13, 2021 ....
Biden wants to ban assault weapons sales “While we’re still waiting on more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used, the guns, the magazines, the modifications to those weapons that have apparently taken place here, I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take commonsense steps that will save lives in the future,” Biden said from the White House. “We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again,” he added. The 1994 Crime Bill included a ban on assault-style weapons for civilians, but the provision was allowed to expire in 2004. The measure also contained certain loopholes ― for example, it only applied to weapons manufactured after the bill was passed. ....
I don t think 2008 was a very good year for pop culture. The Hollywood writers strike seemed to have lingering effects, delaying the return of some of my favorite TV shows past the point of anticipation all the way to indifference. Probably can t blame the strike, but most of the year for movies was also generally a disaster, with the summer slate being a particular disappointment (I was even let down by The Dark Knight). It was miss after miss on the reading front for me as well, with several much-hyped books, like Chabon s The Yiddish Policemen s Union and O Neill s Netherland leaving me cold and unsatisfied. And our most exalted Prophet has admitted that it wasn t a particularly great year for new music, either. ....