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by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 03:05:28 PM EST
Odetta died yesterday. She's been in my thoughts since Chris evoked her spirit. Here is a eulogy published at BAR about that same time.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 06:17:14 PM EST
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Sorry to be such an ignoramus, but who is Odetta?
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 01:06:42 AM EST
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Fran!!!!

(look up :)

Besides which, she's just another aspect of my youth.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 07:05:13 AM EST
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I've never heard of her either.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 07:06:58 AM EST
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Well, thar ya go, when one speech and two "black" men constitute the alpha and omega of the Civil Rights Movement™ in American folklore and living memory.

(Did I mention I was at The Speech in 1963 in utero? LOL)

DemocracyNow! was live-stream video ("listen/watch page") this morning, featuring Odetta during the musical interlude.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 12:11:55 PM EST
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This is a pretty random question, but I wanted to throw it out here in case it has a somewhat clear answer:

If you plot the cost of raising a child from the ages of 1 to 18, is there a typical pattern that that graph would look like?

I am sure it varies per country, perhaps per sex, and also depends on whether the child is first-born (later children can inherit toys and clothes), whether the kid goes to private school, and so on.  But if there is a fairly typical baseline pattern, I would be curious to know what that might look like.

I would have posted this in the OT, but I have to go to bed now!

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 08:10:46 AM EST
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