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> SubscriptionRebel Brew: What The Boston Tea Party And The
> Mad Hatter Had In Common
> 15 December 2015, 4:57 pm
>
>      
>    This week marks the 242nd anniversary of
> the Boston Tea Party. This year marks the 150th anniversary
> of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. On the surface, these two
> events seem to have very little in common. But if you'll
> follow us down the rabbit hole for a bit, you'll find some
> surprising links.   On Dec. 16, 1773, the
> Sons of Liberty in Boston, disguised as Mohawks, stole
> aboard three British ships and tipped 342 chests of good
> East India Company tea into the harbor to protest England's
> unjust taxation policy. This dumping of tea leaves was the
> spark that accelerated the Revolutionary War, culminating in
> the rout of the redcoats and the triumph of
> red-white-and-blue.   The Mad Hatter's Tea
> Party has more idyllic roots. On a "golden afternoon" in
> 1862, a shy, young mathematics don named Charles Lutwidge
> Dodgson took the three daughters of his college dean on a
> boating expedition. Having rowed them up the river Isis,
> Dodgson, accompanied by fellow Oxford don Richard Duckworth,
> and the three Liddle girls (one of whom was Alice),
> disembarked at Godstow, and took tea near a haystack.
> Dodgson entertained his young companions with a story of how
> an inquisitive and bossy but very likable little girl pops
> down a large rabbit hole, "never once considering how in the
> world she was to get out again."   Three
> years later, in 1865, an expanded and delightfully
> illustrated version of the story was published as Alice's
> Adventures in Wonderland under Dodgson's pseudonym, Lewis
> Carroll.    As luck would have it, the "golden
> afternoon" on which Carroll told the story fell on the
> Fourth of July, a detail he worked into the story. When the
> Mad Hatterasks Alice what day of the month is it, she
> promptly replies, "The fourth."   Not much
> tea gets drunk at either party. At Boston it ends up
> staining the Atlantic, and in Wonderland, Alice barely pours
> herself a cup, when the Hatter decides everyone should
> change places.   But these two tea parties
> have something else in common: poking fun at the elaborate
> upper-class English ritual of evening tea. The Boston Tea
> Party was not called by that elegant name till the 1830s.
> Initially, it was known simply as "the Destruction of the
> Tea in Boston."   So how did it get its name?
> According to the historian Alfred F. Young in The Shoemaker
> and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, the
> name evolved to parody the colonial practice of high tea.
> Young quotes the first known American minstrel song,
> Backside Albany, from 1815, which mocks a British general
> for fleeing the field, leaving behind "powder, ball, canon,
> tea-pot and kittle." In this context, the "Boston Tea Party"
> had a pleasant ironic ring to it.   The
> Victorian ceremony of high tea, where one was expected to be
> as clotted as cream, was what Carroll was sending up, too.
> There is a riot of rudeness at the Mad Hatter's tea party,
> from Alice sitting down uninvited, to elbows on the table,
> to the March Hare majestically offering Alice wine where
> there is no wine, and the Hatter making personal remarks
> such as, "Your hair wants cutting." Carroll upsets the
> genteel conventions as blithely as the March Hare upsets the
> milk jug. Instead of silly small talk, there is hilarious
> nonsense talk:   "Take some more tea," the
> March Hare said to Alice, very
> earnestly.   "I've had nothing yet," Alice
> replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take
> more."   "You mean you can't take less," said
> the Hatter: "It's very easy to take more than
> nothing."   "Nobody asked your opinion," said
> Alice.   "Who's making personal remarks now?"
> the Hatter asked triumphantly.   What Carroll
> was not making fun of was the meal itself – he knew how
> much young children looked forward to the delicious snacks
> served at tea time. He himself loved preparing high tea for
> little girls, with sticky buns, scones, cakes, biscuits, and
> producing all kinds of mechanical toys and puzzles to keep
> them engaged. He was known to walk around his rooms at
> Christ Church College, gently rocking the teapot for 10
> minutes for the tea to brew properly. In his latter years,
> however, he turned on the beverage, calling it "an
> unwholesome drug."   Though Carroll never
> visited Boston, he had a unique connection with it in the
> form of an 1888 correspondence he carried on with the fourth
> graders of the Girl's Latin School at Boston, who started a
> magazine called The Jabberwock, after the flaming-eyed
> monster in the sequel to Alice, Through the Looking-Glass.
> After once reprimanding them for an inappropriate joke in
> the magazine, Carroll offered a conciliatory tea metaphor in
> his next letter: "After the Black Draught of serious
> remonstrance which I ventured to send to you the other day,
> surely a Lump of Sugar will not be unacceptable?" He no
> doubt knew that for the little Bostonians, tea had a special
> significance.   The sepia ripples of the
> Boston Tea Party were felt across the world. In 1930, when
> Mahatma Gandhi – who was protesting the salt tax imposed
> by the British – was taking tea with the British viceroy,
> he mischievously added a pinch of salt to his cup as a
> reminder, he said, of "the famous Boston Tea
> Party."   More contemporary, of course, is
> the conservative Tea Party movement in America. Launched in
> 2009 to protest the government's stimulus package to bail
> out big banks, it traces its ideological roots back to that
> famous December dumping. At one gathering, a libertarian Tea
> Party member was spotted in a tricornered hat carrying a
> sign that read: "I Can Stimulate Myself" – a statement
> open to some rather risqué
> interpretations.   Indeed, some might say
> that the choice of party name has proved unfortunate. As
> novelist Salman Rushdie joked, "If I were going to start a
> political movement, I would not call it a tea party; it
> makes one think of mad hatters running about."   
>   Tea Tuesdays is an occasional series exploring the
> science, history, culture and economics of this ancient
> brewed beverage.   Nina Martyris is a
> freelance journalist based in Knoxville,
> Tenn.   
>
>
> Emailed threat shuts down second-largest US school district
> 15 December 2015, 4:55 pm
>          LOS ANGELES 
>       (AP) -- The nation's second-largest
> school district shut down Tuesday after a school board
> member received an emailed threat that raised fears of
> another attack like the deadly shooting in nearby San
> Bernardino. Authorities in New York City said they received
> the same threat but quickly concluded that it was a hoax.
> New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that he was
> "absolutely convinced" there was no danger to schoolchildren
> in his city. "There was nothing credible about the threat.
> It was so outlandish," de Blasio said. Police Commissioner
> William Bratton quipped that it looked like the sender of
> the threat watched a lot of the Showtime terrorism drama
> "Homeland." The shutdown abruptly closed more than 900
> public schools and 187 charter schools attended by 640,000
> students across Los Angeles. Superintendent Ramon Cortines
> said every campus would be searched, and he asked for a
> report on the searches certifying that all buildings are
> safe. The threat, de Blasio and Bratton said, came in the
> form of a "generic" email to many cities around the country.
> In New York, it was received by a superintendent early
> Tuesday. Bratton called the closure a "significant
> overreaction." "We cannot allow ourselves to raise levels of
> fear," said Bratton, who once ran the Los Angeles Police
> Department. The person who wrote the note, Bratton said,
> claimed to be a jihadist but made errors that indicated the
> writer was really a prankster, including spelling the word
> "Allah" with a lowercase "a." Lupita Vela, who has a
> daughter in the third grade and a son who is a high school
> senior, called the threat "absolutely terrifying" in light
> of the San Bernardino attack, which killed 14 people earlier
> this month. She got an automated phone call informing her of
> the closure. "I know the kids are anxious," she said.
> District spokeswoman Shannon Haber said the threat was sent
> by email to a school board member and was believed to have
> come from an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany. Authorities
> would not elaborate on the threat, saying it was still being
> evaluated. They described the shutdown was a precaution. Los
> Angeles schools commonly get threats, but Cortines called
> this one rare. "It was not to one school, two schools or
> three schools," he said at a news conference. "It was many
> schools, not specifically identified. But there were many
> schools. That's the reason I took the action that I did ...
> It was to students at schools." The San Bernardino attack
> influenced the decision to close the entire district,
> Cortines said. The superintendent said the district police
> chief informed him about the threat shortly after 5 a.m. "He
> shared with me that some of the details talked about
> backpacks, talked about other packages," Cortines said. Vela
> said she worries about talking to her kids about the threat
> and terrorism in general. She's concerned about her daughter
> feeling safe in class. "I don't want this to be in the back
> of her head," she said. "Who knows what it does
> psychologically to kids? Is this going to cause her some
> kind of trauma so that she's not going to feel safe at
> school?" The closure came the same day classes were canceled
> at San Bernardino Valley College because of a bomb threat.
> --- Associated Press Writer Colleen Long in New York
> contributed to this report.
>
> Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle appealing child porn
> sentence
> 15 December 2015, 4:47 pm
>          INDIANAPOLIS 
>       (AP) -- Former Subway pitchman Jared
> Fogle is appealing the more than 15-year prison sentence he
> received for possessing child pornography and having sex
> with underage prostitutes, which was longer than the maximum
> term prosecutors agreed to pursue as part of his plea deal.
> Attorney Ron Elberger said Tuesday that he's appealing
> Fogle's sentence, but he declined to discuss it in detail.
> He filed the notice of appeal in federal court in
> Indianapolis on Monday. Fogle pleaded guilty last month to
> one count each of distributing and receiving child porn and
> traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a child.
> As part of his plea deal, he agreed not to seek a sentence
> of less than five years in prison and prosecutors agreed not
> to push for more than 12½ years behind bars. Judge Tanya
> Walton Pratt sentenced Fogle to more than 15 years in
> prison, though, giving him grounds to appeal because it
> exceeded the maximum term prosecutors agreed to pursue.
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota, who prosecuted the
> case, said he couldn't comment because Elberger hadn't filed
> a brief detailing the grounds for Fogle's appeal. Elberger
> said he has to file that brief by Jan. 25. The Seventh
> Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will hear the appeal.
> Fogle admitted that he paid for sex at New York City hotels
> with girls who were 16 or 17 years old and that he had
> received child pornography produced by the head of his
> anti-obesity charity, Russell Taylor. Taylor was sentenced
> last week to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to 12
> counts of child exploitation and one count of distributing
> child pornography. Prosecutors say Taylor used hidden
> cameras in his Indianapolis-area homes to secretly film 12
> minors who were nude, changing clothes, or engaged in other
> activities.
>
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