Words Fail Me category archive
I Am Boggled . . . 0
. . . and I have never played Boggle.
Those categories include literacy, math, social skills and self-regulation – children’s ability to manage their emotions and behavior. About 20 percent of students lack the needed social skills. About 11 percent lack literacy skills, and 8.5 percent aren’t ready for math, according to the report.
Five-year-olds are supposed to be ignorant. That’s what schools are for.
Words fail me.
Afterthought:
“Educational science” has become a scam.
Of course, back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, it was widely rumored that persons who concentrated in the “E-School” did so because they were unable to cut it in a real major, such as history or physics or chemistry or sociology or even for Pete’s sake Art History. That seems to be unchanged.
We are a society awash in stupid.
Ignorance can be cured. The cure is called “learning.”
Stupid has no cure.
I shall stop now. Otherwise, I shall just sputter.
A Fresh Litter 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Q. When Is a “Gym” Not a “Gym”? 0
A. When it’s a “Human Performance Center.”
Hang Outs 0
Mt ex was a nurse.
If she had to be hospitalized, she would get two gowns; she would wear one frontwards and one backwards, so as not to parade about with bits hanging out for others to see.
It would seem that some genius has come up with a way to make that unnecessary.
One wonders how many brain cells that required.
The Deserving Hungry 3
Colbert takes on food insecurity and “salvage stores.”
Below the fold in case it autoplays (also, there’s likely a commercial).
Dragged Kicking and Starting into the World 2
All Janis Joplin wanted was a Mercedes-Benz . . . .
A Mountlake Terrace pair have raised $13,000 for what they say will go toward IVF treatments, surgery and six months of missed work.
Twenty-nine donors have contributed $2,785 to an Issaquah couple who hope to adopt a little boy from South Korea.
The commentary writes itself, so I’m not even going to start.
Police Saturated the Area . . . 0
. . . but the thief slipped away like a greased pig.
Authorities found the semitrailer late Monday abandoned in Hialeah, police have said. It was bound for a Publix distribution center in Lakeland before it was stolen from Coastal Towing on 118th Ave. N, according to St. Petersburg police.
Boys and Their Toys 0
Steel-plated self indulgence.
A Soviet Scud surface-to-surface missile was a no-problem purchase for him at $349,000. A rusty and inoperable Cold War-era M55 self-propelled howitzer was a comparable bargain at $45,000.
But when it came to an authentic Panzer IV, a World War II-era German tank, Allen, an avid collector of historical military planes and other equipment, has had to go to court in Redwood City, even after paying $2.5 million for it.
Doubling Down 0
(snip)
On the website, Murray claims that Lucas and “a few other Oklahoma and other States’ Congressional Members,” were executed “on or about” Jan. 11, 2011 in southern Ukraine.
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Race to the Sty 0
Oh my.
Sexy Schoolgirl race organizers told city officials on Thursday they were canceling the race, in part because of the “community controversy” it had created.
One cannot imagine how trading on fantasies of pedophilia could possibly cause “community controversy,” now, really, can one?
Men are indeed pigs.
How Stuff Works 0
The Conservative Mind, as portrayed by Jonah Goldberg:
No self-awareness, no self-awareness whatsoever.
Via Kos.
Swords over Ploughshares 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Seals of Disapproval 0
With apologies to the blog of the same name, this is the real-life lawyers, guns, and money.
Do Unto Others 0
The non-profit where my friend works has a library. One of the librarians there once told my friend that the library must replace more Bibles than any other book, because it was the most stolen book.
The Entitlement Society, Men Are Pigs Dept. 0
At Wednesday’s DL, we naturally discussed the Santa Barbara shooter and his strange manipulative belief that he was entitled to sex with any and every woman just because he wanted it.
The women who were present at our gathering told scary stories from their own experiences. The bit that took me most aback was their agreeing that they do not wear skirts when they go out to clubs with their significant others; too often they have walked across the floor to a table or the restroom only to have strange men stick hands up their skirts just because the men felt entitled to feel up any woman within reach.
If you wonder whether “rape culture” is a real thing, think about that for a moment.
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