{"id":677,"date":"2018-04-08T02:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maybegoosefeathers.com\/wp\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-04-08T02:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T02:50:40","slug":"saturday-6-pack-april-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maybegoosefeathers.com\/wp\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY 6-PACK: April 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A weekly listing of articles, audio clips, and other tidbits I\u2019ve encountered that seemed interesting, insightful, or otherwise useful <\/em><\/p>\n

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Brother Leonard Pitts has written much this week about the remembrances of the 50th<\/sup><\/span> Anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. that took place in Memphis this week.\u00a0 All are good, but this one best bridges from then to now (and you can find the other ones from there):<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/leonard-pitts-jr\/article207648769.html<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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One of the biggest news events of the week is the back-and-forth between the Current Occupant of the Oval Office and leaders in China about tariffs that may (or may not) be coming.\u00a0 With all the tweets and the tits and tats flying back and forth, it\u2019s hard to keep up with it all.\u00a0 However, some lessons from the past may be more helpful.\u00a0 Here’s the three-fer this week.\u00a0 First up is an NPR interview with Glenn Hubbard, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush.\u00a0 That interview references a piece from the\u00a0 Washington Post article involving Andrew Card, President Bush\u2019s Chief of Staff when the steel tariffs were tried back in 2002; that article is included here as well.\u00a0 And then, since I\u2019ve heard several references to\u00a0 Ben Stein\u2019s rather memorable \u201clecture\u201d on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the movie Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>, here\u2019s a piece from Marketplace<\/strong><\/em> (last August!) , with more insight than the lecture scene provided<\/div>\n
\u00a0https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/04\/06\/600055760\/is-this-what-a-trade-war-looks-like<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/03\/06\/remember-bushs-2002-steel-tariffs-his-chief-of-staff-warns-trump-not-to-do-the-same\/?utm_term=.9971228d0bda<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2017\/08\/24\/sustainability\/trade-stories-globalization-and-backlash\/what-was-one-worst-pieces-us-legislation<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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The hit sitcom from the very late 80s\/early 90s Roseanne<\/em> has returned.\u00a0 The show is no less controversial now than ever it was then.\u00a0 Now the controversy is about the real-life Roseanne Barr\u2019s support for the Current Occupant of the Oval Office \u2026 and how it carries over into her TV alter ego.\u00a0 Part of the attraction that this show has had from the start is that the character of Roseanne is no one\u2019s ideal anything \u2026 which helps make the family\u2019s interactions seem oh-so real.\u00a0 And in reality, people like Roseanne Connor are quite likely to have voted for the Current Occupant in the last election.\u00a0 But he should be careful about claiming this as an endorsement.\u00a0 Kareem Abdul Jabbar (yes, that<\/strong> Kareem) explains why:<\/div>\n
\u00a0https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/kareem-abdul-jabbar-dont-be-fooled-roseanne-is-tvs-anti-trump-show-1099170<\/a><\/div>\n
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Speaking of blasts from the past and history lessons and the question of \u201cWhen will we ever learn?\u201d, here\u2019s an interview with three key players during the financial meltdown at the start of the Great Recession ten years ago.\u00a0 They explain what they did, why they did it, what more they would have liked to have done, think should be done \u2026 their regrets and what might have been different \u2026 and their concerns about the future.\u00a0 The threesome consists of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and Tim Geithner, who started out as President of the New York Fed and then went on to serve as Treasury Secretary under President Barak Obama. Kai Ryssdal interviewed the three of them together and aired segments on Marketplace<\/strong><\/em> the last week of March.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the whole thing.\u00a0 It\u2019s over an hour long, but the conversation moves and it is well worth the listen:<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/marketplace\/bonus-bernanke-geithner-and-paulson-full-interview<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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We\u2019re now two weeks past\u00a0 the March for Our Lives<\/strong> \u2026 and some more actions are being planned to coincide with the 19th<\/sup><\/span> Anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School in a few weeks.\u00a0 The student activists are keeping gun safety concerns active in the political environment and other places.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a long form piece with keen insights into attitudes and experiences concerning guns. From the New York Times Magazine,\u00a0 Gun Culture is My Culture — And I Fear What It Has Become<\/em>:<\/div>\n
\u00a0https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2pZ0t8O<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Although mental illness is frequently invoked as a cause for the gun violence , the reality is that the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of than the perpetrators of violence.\u00a0 What would be more helpful regarding mental illness is to recognize the crisis we have regarding care for the people who suffer from these conditions. All too often, police are serving as paramedics or nurses or physicians assistants (initial points of contacts) with jails and prisons filling in as treatment\u00a0 centers.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t the way to do it.\u00a0 Alisa Roth, author of Insane: America\u2019s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness<\/em>, explains why in an interview for Marketplace<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 (Her comparison imagining if we were to treat heart disease the same way is chilling and provocative!)\u00a0 The other piece in this two-fer is a local report on an approach that is working much better.<\/div>\n
\u00a0https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2018\/04\/03\/life\/public-history-mental-illness<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2018\/04\/04\/rochester-minnesota-police-social-workers-mental-health<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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