Blue Truck, Red State: 25 Maps

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

25 Maps

An unverified, but mildly interesting little vid:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Number 9 - the one about the football coaches pay - may be true for college and professional coaches. It was true for Texas high school coaches, too, for a long time. It wasn't unusual for coach to be the highest paid 'teacher' in a small town, or to receive bonuses and gifts for wins. (I remember a coach getting a new pick up when they won the state championship.) But back in the 80's (I think) the state passed a law requiring teacher salaries be tiered so the highest paid district employee would be the superintendent, and no teacher (including coaches) could make more than their building principal. (A bunch of principals got pay raises that year.) And no more bonuses for UIL results, for anyone, including band directors and drama teachers. The unintended result: Almost all small town coaches make more than their big city cam-padres.; August 14, 2015 at 3:26 PM
Frank said...: The map of US coaches stood out as an embarrassing representation of our skewed values. Here in CT, the UConn basketball and football coaches make an inordinate amount of money due to the fact that sports brings in lots of money to the University. Money rewards money. It is always about money. Not about education or scholastic excellence.; August 27, 2015 at 6:41 AM
Russ Manley said...: As Ted indicated above, the same is true of Texas, where football *is* the state religion, and Jesus died to make a field goal. Art and music programs have been eliminated all over the state due to "lack of funds" in the last two decades - but small towns and rural counties continue to turn out in droves to vote themselves into perpetual debt to pay for multi-million dollar athletic stadiums and sports complexes. They are the cathedrals where the faithful gather to worship the One True God - 'nuff said.; August 27, 2015 at 9:07 PM

Prayer for Peace

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu