Friday Ephemera (796)
Salmon and something else. || They’re such a joy, I’m told. || And now we rain destruction upon the audience. || Incoming. || Close enough. || “You’re not okay,” says she. || Office Christmas party, 1970. || Just be careful in the basement. || He’s the non-binary final boss. || She has a Ouija board. || “We are breeding people,” says the New York Times contributor. || “One of the few joys that come with being born white,” says she. || But she still gets to decide what you say you see. || On the mysteries of smoke detectors. || Meeting students where they’re at. || Oppressed by a parking meter. || And yet the patriarchy still didn’t care. || Muhammadan pilates. || You may need to squint. || Contrasting worldviews. || He has quite a lot of flags. || And finally, there was an attempt to find a house key.
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I’ve read that surgeons tend to be above average in sadism. I find it easy to believe that it’s a necessary personality traitfor a skillful surgeon, but it sounds like these genital-mutilating surgeons have allowed their sadism to get out of control…or maybe they were always a danger that way.
A female version of a certain Monty Python competition?
Now I wouldn’t be surprised as #2 daughter was Houdini from an early age (gave me my first gray hairs). She ‘gymnasticked’ her way out of the crib at 15 months, could unlock the front door at 16 mos (had to put a manual swing lock near the top where she couldn’t reach it even with chairs). I found her on top the refrigerator when she was barely 3 and at 5 she liked to climb out her bedroom window onto the top ledge of fence where it met the wall of the house and climb up on the roof to look at the view.
It’s a wonder I didn’t have a series of heart attacks raising her.
I giggled at the poster which looks like bad AI, but I laughed out loud that the person Xweeting it labeled it “Stardate: 90210”.
Bad high school angst and antics in stretch fabric.
Heh, indeed.
And I always thought all those stretch fabric uniforms were silly–Hollywood fashion bullshit rather than science fiction.
To hell with counseling. To hell with anger management classes. To hell with probation. Just get rid of them.
And yet none of this will actually reduce crime and illegal immigration.
TMI, Jeremy. TMI.
Mother Nature, she’s a wonderful person. Everybody says so. Incredible woman, if I’m allowed to say so myself. Some people get mad when I say that but what can you do? We don’t care about those people. Get them outta here…
Ok, that was pretty funny!
“As soon as my column was posted online, the response illustrated my point with almost clinical precision.”
Same here. Thanks (I think), barkeep. *Ping!*
Bless you, sir. May your butter spread effortlessly, every time, without requiring a plate and eight seconds in the microwave.
And in public-school education news:
More of that “meeting students where that at” business.
I should add that A Raisin in the Sun is a play, not a novel, but never mind.
“Incoming!”
“Incoming!”
“Incoming!”
I laughed at that and I am a terrible person.
Bookmark. Anyone want a black cat? The pet spa where I was doing Christmas pictures is fostering one. Very mellow personality. Wondering if my cat would tolerate her.
Re DC schools and reading…so I asked Grok for the DC public schools eighth grade reading list. Here is what I got:
Notice any similarities regarding all these books/literature?
Trying to recall what we read in 8th grade. Definitely recall Romeo and Juliette. Some short stories, specifically remember Mark Twain. It’s been half a century so the others may occur to me. Probably 3 seconds after I hit post. Of course I am sure you all can recall similar depth and diversity of subject matter in your own early teen class literature.
A Nativity ripped from the front pages of today with accompanying insight wherein we learn Jesus was born in Roman Judea and had to flee into exile in Egypt which, at the time, was also part of the Roman Empire.
Leftist ministers, is there anything they don’t know?.
Keep seeing this but…of course the whole thing is BS but the point of fleeing to Egypt was not to seek refuge from the Romans but from Judea because King Herod, the king of Judea, wanted to kill Jesus. Herod had no such power in Egypt. Which, of course is why they fled there. Though what any of that has to do with ICE is another layer of BS.
It does seem a little racially preoccupied.
Fun with filters.
Exactly. Not to mention all are the product of mid/late 20th century fiction writers. Three of the four being women.
I.e., more ‘students’ with diplomas they can’t read.
Meh. It’s not like the little phartlings can read it anyway.
“Damned if I know why we should be ashamed.”
Those working women.
Band name. Indie.
Also, the word fart really should have a p at the beginning.
Pfart.
You know it makes sense.
Nothing quite like subtle feminine grace.
OK, feminine grace while totally plastered wearing a pantomime horse suit and trying to do Swan Lake.
On the plus side, at least they seem to be in male-female pairings.
The white upper middle class are right to be worried when their good-school-district in DC recalibrates its standards to the DC average. Non-white students can get into good colleges on those lowered standards, but it’s more difficult for whites.
You probably don’t get to be Vice President of Policy, Research, Analytics and Strategy at a healthcare industry lobbyist without filtering everything through “I’m a good person”. Your kids are reading by torchlight under their covers – how cute, and what a reflection on you as a parent that they’re not just scrolling on their phones. Are they reading powerful and inspiring books from the curriculum about STEM-girls with Black Hair, or are they actually reading interesting books?
Nevertheless, you think their school needs to force them to slog through books whose purpose and presence on the curriculum is because of ideological messages that can be summarized on a powerpoint slide. Because that develops empathy, which is the susceptibility of whites to sacrifice their own interests and their children’s futures to self-serving emotional appeals on behalf of non-whites (SI measure is the Merkel, with most whites in the micro- to milli-merkel spectrum).
Training students to “inhabit characters’ perspectives” – how about training them to inhabit their own perspective in a more sophisticated way, with a more differentiated and less deluded understanding of the kinds of people there are in the world, including people whose interests are incompatible with yours and people who will live by exploiting you if you give them a chance. Novelists actually used to talk about these kinds of things.
Like this?
I can hear the teacups rattling as I type.
Deal school and novels: In 8th grade I was reading the complete Tolkien series, multiple sci-fi books, and some history (The Alamo, for example). My daughter started the Potter books in 6th grade. Dumbing everything down does NOT help students. It is the coward’s way out.
But it does help to obscure certain patterns that would otherwise be quite obvious and, for some, indigestible.
A Raisin in the Sun, a play? Surely it’s a recipe?
She’s upset by a Pantone colour, a shade of white. She’s not having it, you hear?
She doesn’t know who’s on her side. In the park.
It’s perhaps worth taking a moment to imagine what it would be like to be inside the head of either of those women.
I should think the loud buzzing noise would get a little wearing.
Oh, and if the identifying bracelets mentioned by Park Lady sound familiar, you may be thinking of this:
As I’ve said before, were their field not so ideologically captured, you’d think that a few sociologists might see things of this kind as the makings of a study. A paper or two. It being quite an odd phenomenon.
The buzzing of demons.
Making mean tweets a thing of the past.
Hostis humani generis.
David, you may need to move to the States someday soon.
(via AoS contributor IRA Darth Aggie.)
speech: I have noticed that one of our favorite brit commentators (linked here almost daily) the old guy, is in a different room/place for each video, like he is on the move to evade authorities.
Do sad what has happened in Europe. Actually sad doesn’t describe it.
Elon Musk has no patience with this shite.
May I suggest, to Elon, this reply? For the historical parallel?
Looks like a Bond villain.