Then I got around to reading a post over at FilmLadd. (Drat. I can’t remember who led me to FilmLadd, so I can’t do the via link.) In that post, Mr. Ehlinger makes an unsettling point:
“My hunch is that these protests aren’t about accomplishing anything right now except to flex their muscles, test out the police, and see which supporters “they” (the White House) can count on.
In short: #OccupyWallStreet is a dry run for November 2012.”
I am grateful to have some out-of-town company this weekend. They are here to help me celebrate a milestone. Yep, the big-four-oh.
Yay me!
Never bemoan a birthday, folks, because you probably wouldn’t fancy the alternative.
On to the housekeeping. I’d rather give these links a more proper treatment, but if I don’t spit ‘em out right now, they’ll only get lost in the shuffle.
First, P.J. O’Rourke has the last word on the Amy Chua Tiger Mother thing, and dang it’s funny. I cannot match his talent, but I can parrot his words:
Amy Chua, I’ve got bad news. “A” students work for “B” students. Or not even. A businessman friend of mine corrected me. “No, P. J.,” he said, “ ‘B’ students work for ‘C’ students. ‘A’ students teach.” Teaching in the Ivy League gives you a lot of time off, Amy—enough to write a crap book, worse than Yale prof Erich Segal’s Love Story. Maybe when you get some time off again you should come to rural New Hampshire and meet the Irish Setter Dad children.
Buster, age 7, is a master of passive resistance who can turn staying up past his bedtime into Tahrir Square. He could hire himself out as a civil disobedience coach to Mahatma -Gandhi and Martin Luther King, if they weren’t dead. Poppet, 10, is a persuasive saleswoman, not to say charming con artist, who can hand you a sheet of black construction paper with a hole in it and convince you it’s a science project on collapsed super-novas. And Muffin, 13, has her own .410 shotgun and knows how to use it.
Second, via Disrupt the Narrative comes yet another awesome Bill Whittle video, Eat The Rich! This video has that extra little something which no leftist can ever refute: math.
“Union have already spent millions fighting battles across the country, depleting their war chests for the 2012 election cycle. Many states are following Wisconsin’s lead and taking away the ability of government unions to force their members to pay dues.”
You know which puppets I’m talking about–Americans for Prosperity. Well, they are either got a right-wing plant to pose as a teacher, or they cleverly edited this lady’s words to make her look bad.
Because teachers are underpaid and underappreciated. And taxpayers rightwingers are bleep-holes.
MANDATORY DISCLAIMER: No, I do not think this lady represents the view of all teachers, and I do not think all teachers are overpaid and overvalued.
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