Recent content by Mulberry Heel

I have a strong hunch that the people currently controlling the BOT and our Chancellor would prefer the former over the latter.

Perhaps, but compared to what we have now he did do far more to promote public ed than our current state government, which is actively trying to destroy it. In a contest between the Hunt machine and Phil Berger/Art Pope machine I'll take the former every time. I never said Hunt was perfect or...

I posted this elsewhere, but Hunt really did try to promote public ed in this state and raised teacher salaries several times as governor to where we were above the national average in teacher pay when he left office after his fourth and final term. A recent study shows that we're now ranked...

“Today the conservative movement is also in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty. Who offer nothing but bile and despair." LOL. I hate to tell you this dude, but you're describing pretty much the entire...

Hunt really did try to improve public education in NC, including raising pay for teachers and funding for public ed overall. In the 90s he got the legislature to approve a four-year plan to raise NC teacher pay above the national average by the time his fourth term ended in 2001. NC public ed...

Having seen the performance of Democrats since Obama left office I can't say that I'm very surprised.

I'm sure that many will point out that the two things aren't directly connected, but it's still disgusting to see UNC shutting down longstanding and prestigious centers and departments in an effort to save $70 mil while at the same time the powers-that-be have no problems paying Belichick alone...

I know that most of us have become numb to all of the shit he's done, and compared to the lives and careers he and his administration are destroying it's a relatively small thing, but this is just so far beyond the pale that it may well become a symbol in the future of the sheer awfulness and...

If House Democrats can get enough Republicans to support extending Obamacare subsidies, then it will put real pressure on Senate Republicans to pass it, as even they know that Obamacare is popular. There was an article just earlier this week about how wary many Congressional Republicans are wary...

Pamela Hensley was a real babe on that show as well, and as the evil Princess Ardala she was always lusting after and trying to seduce Buck to join the dark side. And of course he always resisted, although to be fair I did think that Wilma was hotter. I had forgotten that Markie Post had one of...

I remember reading a biography of Jackie Robinson integrating the Major Leagues and it noted that many of the mediocre white players were among those who were the most opposed to integrating baseball, because they knew it would mean the end of their playing careers in the Major Leagues. Some of...

If we still had real news media in this country someone probably would, but as we now have shallow entertainment networks and right-wing propaganda outlets masquerading as news networks that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Little did people know during the initial invasion of Iraq, when we were all laughing at Hussein's Iraqi propaganda minister (Baghdad Bob) spewing blatant, easily proven, and often unintentionally funny lies that a little over two decades later we would have our very own version of Baghdad Bob -...

Given what a cheap bastard he is, do you think he really paid for it himself?

I remember the vampire episode well. I've seen it as an adult and it's really hokey, but as a kid it was pretty scary - the creepy space station and more and more of the crew getting turned into vampires, and finally Wilma became a vampire and went after Buck. And of course he found a way to...