Posts from — April 2006

Daughters of Israel, do not be fooled! If the price of a sheytl seems too good to be true, it probably is.

The NY Post reports,

Brooklyn’s renowned Shevy Wigs says in a trademark-infringement suit filed in Brooklyn federal court that it became aware of the alleged rip-off when FedEx mistakenly delivered a package from China in March[...]The wigs delivered by FedEx bore the Shevy label, but “the materials, namely the hair and stretch cap, were of inferior quality and construction,” according to Shevy’s legal papers.

The person the delivery was intended for - a former employee named Aggie Grossman, who has since opened her own business, Aggie’s Wigs - demanded her shipment be given to her.

Shevy refused, and instead took Grossman to court.

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Certainly a 30% dropout rate is a problem. The picture of yet another caucasian student on Time Magazine’s own website suggests that this situation is all too prevalent among white students as well.

But though Time’s limited joint story on CNN.com does note that, “For Latinos and African-Americans, the rate approaches an alarming 50 percent. Virtually no community, small or large, rural or urban, has escaped the problem,” the summary fails to disclose the dropout rate for white students.

Obviously it is not only far less than the dropout rate for Black and Latino students, but also less than the 30% of the general student population which includes the high dropout rate for Black and Latinos to arrive at that mean average.

So why isn’t there a picture of black or Latino student on either story? And why isn’t the dropout rate for white students also given in the summary?

If these types of stories are too controversial for Time Warner Inc. to cover properly and comprehensively, perhaps they should leave any news story involving race in any way, shape, or form to those willing to give us all the facts.

We will not be able to solve a problem unless we identify it properly. And while CNN executives may not care about that, they should be concerned that is unremitting transparent bullshit like this intentionally misleading story that leads to an understandable general disillusionment with socially liberal corporate media by people who are smart enough and engaged enough to want to know the news.

I don’t like Fox News either, but I am not scratching my head wondering why it is so popular.

At least they aren’t liberal racists.

For those of you who missed last night’s screening for When Do We Eat?, you can capture some of the good vibes from my four cups of wine at the When Do We Drink? after-party at Detour. The band from New Orleans was wonderful, but perhaps not the best band for my “two will do” school night drink policy.

Anyway, it was a good time for all, and I finally met Yoseph Leib of Jewschool, and Sarah returned to us from London.

Ben Baruch has some great photos from the event on his site and a movie review, which I invite you to check out.

My cousin (second cousin, once removed) Barbara Ann Radnofsky is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas. No, I am not kidding.

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