We live in very strange times indeed. This is the first time that I can recall, either from personal experience or from history, that a declared candidate for president of the United States has issued an announcement outlining a...
Donald Trump has draconian ideas about how the nation's public schools should be run and how students should be taught. Oh, and he also has some bad ideas about how teachers should be credentialed.
He said as much on Truth...
Ted Cruz envies Donald Trump. That's not new information. He envies the fact that Trump can be a complete jackass and he's loved by the MAGAs, whereas Cruz is naturally a jackass and he's loathed for it. Poor Teddums.
Cruz...
The warring tribes mentality which Fox News brings to politics escalated up another notch this morning with a depiction of Merrick Garland juxtaposed with images of parents at school board meeting covered in crosshairs. A voiceover intoned, "You have...
‘It’s a conspiracy’ DeSantis appears to be saying in response to numerous press reports asserting that a biographical book about late, great beloved baseball player Roberto Clemente is being pulled from some school shelves.
DeSantis, in his remarks, seems to...
If you're as long in the tooth as I am, you may recall a TV show from the '70's called "Laugh In." One of the cliches from that show that emerged to become part of our slang was "sock...
File this under “some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.”
Three groups representing minority students, The Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino Network, have filed a...
Every now and then a story surfaces that gives you hope that no matter how desperately the RWNJs try to pull our country into an abyss of hatred and ignorance, good people can emerge to pull us back from...
Realizing that the New Democratic composition of the Michigan Legislature would upend their plans to circumvent both the voters of Michigan and Governor Gretchen Whitmer, backers of the anti-public education/school voucher voter initiative Let MI Kids Learn chose to...
Talk about a breath of fresh air. Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post have put together a terrific piece on the "backlash to the backlash," specifically the bat$hit anti-gay, book banning nonsense in the State of Florida....
