School Daze 0
The American dream is rapidly becoming the American nightmare.
Aside:
My mother was a teacher. I refuse to visualize her debasing herself in such a manner.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness to innocent bystanders.
The driver of the pickup truck started to drive off, and the driver of the Camaro called out for someone to stop him. A person standing in the Benny’s parking lot, who had not been involved in the accident in any way, took out a gun and began firing, ostensibly at the pickup truck that was driving off.
The shooter did not hit the pickup truck, but did hit a 2012 Infiniti G24 that was stopped at the intersection and was occupied by a 53-year-old man who was also not involved in the accident in any way.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
Efforts to censor what people read are not justified under the American system.
Quoted from a speech attended by John Jakes in Jakes’s introduction
to Stout, Rex, Over My Dead Body (New York: Bantam, 1993), p. vii.
“Manufacturing Enemies” 0
Michael in Norfolk takes a look at Fox News’s faux war on Christmas and its maleficent implications.
Maskless Marauders, a Snitch in Time Kills Nine Dept. 0
The stupid. It burns.
The Coupprint 0
Will Bunch suggests that the plan of Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, as revealed in a Powerpoint presentation obtained from Mark Meadows, deserves far more attention than it’s getting. Here’s a bit from Bunch’s article; follow the link for the rest.
“Social” Media Isn’t, Reprise 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Kevin Frazier argues forcefully that the proliferation of “smart” devices and social media is–er–not beneficial to school children. A snippet:
Students survived without a tether to their iPhone for most of human existence. Let’s get back to that era. Let’s figure out how to deal with the logistical problems we understand — like how to coordinate rides home in the absence of phones — rather than continue to test if social media is as bad as “many researchers” think it is.
An Ill-Advised Alliance 0
PoliticalProf is concerned that Republicans have clasped a viper to their bosom (and, by extension, to that of the polity itself).
The Prison Reformer 0
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks the insurrectionists in the D. C. jail are suffering unduly while awaiting trial for an attempted coup d’etat.
Going to Extremes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman offers a lens for understanding extremists and extremism which I found well worth the read. Here’s a tiny bit: