tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post4227065553184352742..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: You Go First.James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-47889041316924477032008-08-01T07:09:00.000-04:002008-08-01T07:09:00.000-04:00Brilliant, hope you don't mind a new reader.Not on...Brilliant, hope you don't mind a new reader.<BR/><BR/>Not only was our industrial sector unbombed, if working-age Europeans weren't at school in 1950, it's probably because they had a lot of other fairly important stuff to do, like putting it all back together (what kind of kludgy slice of a demographic is "older teenagers" anyway?).<BR/><BR/>Maybe I should start reading Davey again. My blood Keifushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00287358319899471490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-40120908713907841472008-07-29T21:16:00.000-04:002008-07-29T21:16:00.000-04:00Wait. We didn't win World War I?Wait. We didn't win World War I?yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-27999553901448707862008-07-29T14:39:00.000-04:002008-07-29T14:39:00.000-04:001970 is about the time we began taking seriously t...<I>1970 is about the time we began taking seriously the moral requirement to give equal access to public education to minority students. And it is right about the time that Mr. Brooks' end of the political spectrum began fighting that tooth, nail, and treatise by free-market economist.</I><BR/><BR/>And 1978 is when my state's enlightened voters pretty much decided to stop paying for it. And 30 Kathy Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980621565856010779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-85174782576056964172008-07-29T11:47:00.000-04:002008-07-29T11:47:00.000-04:00I'm always amazed at BoBo's pandering, but I guess...I'm always amazed at BoBo's pandering, but I guess I shouldn't be; his sinecure as national spokesperson for the Horatio Alger Society pretty much guarantees his spewage will be along these lines.<BR/><BR/>But, man, he really goes off the deep end here. As you note, Doghouse, those magical 1950's had a lot more to do with being the only industrial power not blown to smithereens than whites-only LittlePighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08371773528566240524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-71761907204251310262008-07-29T11:29:00.000-04:002008-07-29T11:29:00.000-04:00I raced over here right after reading BoBo and you...I raced over here right after reading BoBo and you did not disappoint. <BR/><BR/>I would add one more variable as to why education improved in Bobo's Golden Era that got overlooked -- the GI Bill. For the first time in our history, a significant percentage of the American working class could go to a four year college almost entirely on Uncle Sam's nickel. Now <I>that</I> was one hell of an John deVillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05842527710711730582noreply@blogger.com