Your Host’s Idea Of Hell (5)
In the nightmare, I’ve been found guilty of something terrible – it was only a matter of time, I suppose – and am sentenced to an eternity of listening to this:
Teacher candidates in Ontario are receiving top-notch training. Not. pic.twitter.com/CBGPLzdJ9k
— Chanel Pfahl 🇨🇦 (@ChanLPfa) January 18, 2024
The speaker above, our bringer of deep and hidden wisdom, is Dr Andrew Campbell, an “educator, facilitator, storyteller and author,” and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise – and naturally, they are numerous – include “educational change,” “radical leadership for social change,” “diversity,” “equity,” and painting his nails.
In return for his scholarly expertise, and his heroic struggles with basic grammar, Dr Campbell is paid a mere $169,272 – excluding speaking fees, obviously. Oh, and our educator’s response to scepticism and gentle mockery, expressed via social media and immediately blocked, is pretty much what you’d imagine. From a thirteen-year-old girl.
His mission is to challenge stereotypes.
Update, via the comments:
Dr Campbell also insists, loudly and with much flailing of arms, that “representation” and “diversity” do not, ever, entail a lowering of standards. “How dare you,” says he.
At which point, I’m tempted to peer over my spectacles.
Via Jonathan Kay. Previously in Hell.
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Well, it’s often struck me as odd that some progressives will denounce the alleged selfishness of those who wish to see criminals punished and prevented, albeit temporarily, from preying on others. And yet the rather more obvious selfishness of the criminal – pretty much a defining trait – a shameless, habitual selfishness – somehow passes unremarked.
High culture
Looking at some of these examples, Mother of God, what’s the median age of this group – deceased?
Ooh, harsh.
[ Slides complimentary breadstick towards Stephanie. ]
Slides it back to host
Thank you but doing keto since January 1st. Maybe a meat stick is lying about somehere?
Check the floor.
Looks down, picks up a small twig-like object.
Meh . . . 10-second rule.
Bits in and starts chewing.
True story: one of my law school classmates was a rabid germophobe. We had a no-nonsense female prof for a course about children and the law. The professor wanted to keep a drink of water by her during the lecture and not having a disposable bottle, walked over to the trash, found a styrofoam cup, filled it at the water fountain, and went back to the lectern. Noticing the sheer horror on my classmate’s face, she laughed and said, “By this point, we’ve all shared each other’s germs.” My classmate ran out of the lecture hall, gagging.
He was one of the joys of my youth. Listened to his radio show all through college, and after when a local radio station carried it.
Yup. Spike Jones was born in 1911 and died in 1965. (So, no wonder that much of his style of humor has fallen out of favor. And those garish suits were pure Vaudeville, which is also looked down on as unfashionably unsubtle. Even though most of today’s pop music is unsubtle and often gross.)
I could tell you stories that make that professor sound like a germophobe.
Even when your local stores start closing, excusing the looters is the progressive thing to do.
Given that progressivism is, fundamentally, a rationalisation of theft, progressives’ affinity for thieves is understandable.
If a neighbor had told my father that I’d stolen something from them, something that cost a couple of grand, and then presented footage of me doing it, I’m pretty sure I would not be here right now.
Counterproductive leadership.
That would have been my parents’ reaction to any theft no matter how small the amount.
Again, among progressives in particular, there’s a tendency to forget – or shy from – just how pervasive and irretrievable degeneracy can be.
Instapundit recently described this erosion of norms as Civilizational Jenga:
We need to face up to a very clear historical reality, the line between a successful western civilization and utter degeneracy, stupidity, and the lead up to the inability even to understand what a woman is was obliterated by the boomer generation. Yes, the previous two generations contributed to this. They had their faults as well. One of the greatest was their oversight, or negligence* of the boomer generation. Things have even gotten so bad that the only potentially effective restraint or adjustment to the effects of the boomer generation will likely be to making matters much worse.
*I can go into why/how that was via a technical/historical context but brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. Or so someone told me.
Yes, that.
Perhaps it’s time to make being stupid a crime.
You know, I’m not sure that being a rapist is something one should destigmatise.
Uptight stick-in-the-mud that I am.
Related: Liberals in Minnesota and Washington State want to allow incarcerated felons to vote, serve on a jury, and run for office.
Note the “fight racism” justification.
Stupid can no longer explain such madness. Evil must be involved.
Hands across the water: How to make the perfect cup of tea
Tea brewed in a microwave: Brits have only themselves to blame because the cavity magnetron was invented in England.
I don’t understand.
Don’t think you’re supposed to.
Having mucked up art and architecture they’ve set their sights on more ephemeral productions.
Quote:A pair of Hollywood’s most iconic classic films will be undergoing “diverse” reboots at the hands of Hollywood writer Kenya Barris, who has planned to change main characters to a “person a color.” — a reimagining of two industry classics: “The Wizard of Oz” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” /quote
Um… Barris has never heard of The Wiz? And while “Wonderful life” hasn’t be blackened, the Christmas movie “The Bishop’s Wife” was redone in 1996 as “The Preacher’s Wife”.
Dear.lord.
GISS
they’ve set their sights on more ephemeral productions.
[ AROOGA AROOGA ]
Ooh, is that the BAD LINK klaxon I hear?
Dear.lord. Indeed!
I don’t get a moment’s peace round here.
A rude awakening I fear. That klaxon is loud. It woke me clear across the Atlantic 😄
More and more, city, county, and state leaders in California just don’t seem to think things through. Can you imagine being in the car line, a vehicle in front of you and one behind you, and suddenly a local appears at your window with a gun? In the comments section, someone mentioned that rental car agencies advise those returning cars at Oakland’s airports not to gas up at the gas stations nearby.
In good news, next year In-N-Out is coming to Nashville. Double double animal style, here I come!
“The city cuts back on police to pay for public-worker pensions.”
California has a history of government pension fund scandals. See CalPERS, for instance. Stupidity cannot explain these problems. Corruption and malice can.
From the article:
An explanation for “surprising” failures of liberal public policy:
Anybody seen our host?
[ Mysterious banging in basement ]
Compiling tomorrow’s Ephemera.
[ Banging intensifies, animal noises. ]
Suspicions aroused.
David working on Friday Ephemera:
Giddy-up.
I look forward to seeing candidates who are biological chimpanzees but legal humans elected to the Italian Parliament.
Or perhaps we already have!!!
David, it is illegal to use a nightstick on a furry.
Even if it’s thicker than your thumb?
Not even. Besides, it’s not an effective way to help these poor unfortunate people.
[ New, mysterious sounds from below. ]
Regarding the so-called “seahorse dad”:
So when they discovered the pregnancy and suspended the hormone therapy, she was already through the first trimester and most of the way through the second.
The important thing is that the mother feels good about herself.
Pity about the baby, though.