Indoctrination Update

City Journal: Michael Torres reports on how Critical Race Theory and related subjects have been merged into elementary schools in Pennsylvania. 

Blink

 

Late Night Entertainment

 An overflow from the air conditioner drain last night as a rain storm moved in.

A sound reason for stoicism and letting the nerve endings die out.

Training Generals

 

The Hippy Hogwarts?

This reminds me of my old college.

I will refrain from further comment.

"The New Puritans"

 Right here in America, right now, it is possible to meet people who have lost everything - jobs, money, friends, colleagues - after violating no laws, and sometimes no workplace rules either. Instead, they have broken (or are accused of having broken) social codes having to do with race, sex, personal behavior, or even acceptable humor, which may not have existed five years ago or maybe five months ago. Some have made egregious errors of judgment. Some have done nothing at all. It is not always easy to tell.

- From Anne Applebaum's "The New Puritans" essay in The Atlantic

The Final Final Bond Trailer

 

The Great Clarification

The United States is going through what I call The Great Clarification. For years, many of us took for granted that the consensus between liberals, moderates, and conservatives which had been crafted via federal and state legislation and subsequently upheld in the courts would be respected. 

We now realize there are governmental and school programs which directly collide with that consensus. There are rules which have never gone near a legislative hearing that have been quietly adopted by a multitude of organizations.

The game is up and the coming decade will be lively.

As we all know, sunlight is a disinfectant.

How a Dictatorship Eliminated Unemployment

 'Miss, you are not unemployed,' she barked.

'Of course, I'm unemployed,' Julia said. 'Why else would I be here?'

'This is the Employment Office, not the Unemployment Office. You are not unemployed, you are seeking work.'

Julia wasn't daunted. 'I'm seeking work,' she said, 'because I am unemployed.'

The woman started to shout so loudly the people in the queue hunched their shoulders. 'I said, you are not unemployed! You are seeking work!' and then, almost hysterically, 'There is no unemployment in the German Democratic Republic!'

- From Stasiland by Anna Funder

Start Me Up