We get the government we deserve
In this country electing a government, whether state or local, is a crapshoot. Mainly because, for a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people, we are some amazing lazy mofo's. Rather than...
When they are not busy tormenting transgendered people, immigrants, or teachers (because heaven forbid their students should read books about real life), Florida Republicans are thinking up brand-new draconian laws to get them kids back to work like they...
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...
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....
This is not surprising coming from a sitting congressman, not when you know that it's a Republican we're talking about and a hard core Trumpite. This is the face of the rank and file GOP in 2021, bone ignorant...
‘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...
We live in a world of book banning, book burning and smut-hunting illiterati stalking the halls of libraries that they would never have entered for the purpose of reading or study, but will to harass and censor. Yes, the...
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...
At the rising of the moon, at the rising of the moon. All the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon The rising of the moon Irish folk song
You all know I'm a proud Irish...
