Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
JP Sears is out with one of his best videos, this one looking at what’s going on in too many American classrooms. What makes this latest from JP Sears such a superb video is that, if you follow Libs of Tik Tok (now up to 1.2 million followers thanks to
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Seeming disparate threads, including the madness at Disney, when bound together, reveal that America is experiencing a most peculiar class struggle. (This post looks long but it isn’t as long as it looks because it has a lot of Twitter material that uses up a great deal of vertical space.)
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In this Bookworm Podcast, I enjoy the lovely Southeast, examine woke teachers, dream of talking back to Leftists, and look at class and college costs. My latest podcast is up and running. You can listen to it through the audio embed below, or at LibSyn, or through Apple Podcasts. This podcast discusses:
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I exhausted my self with last night’s lengthy Bookworm Beat, but I have two points — one about Betsy DeVos’s qualifications to be Education Secretary and the other about Oakland’s fund for illegal immigrants — that I believe go a long way to summing up so much of what’s wrong
Continue readingI’ve commented before about the way in which America’s teachers paint themselves as the hardest working, most pathetically abused people in America. In 2011, I noted that today’s teachers work fewer hours and are paid more than my dad’s generation of teachers, but the latter didn’t whine all the time.
Continue readingIn September 2011, I wrote a post about the way teachers constantly present themselves as the hardest working, most underpaid people in America. I have a great deal of respect for teachers and, to the extent I deliver my kids to their care, I want them to be decent, knowledgeable,
Continue readingYesterday, I wrote about the peculiar socialist inversion that sees doctors — who study for years, work insane hours, and hold our lives in their hands — routinely denigrated, while teachers — who study for a short time, work the world’s shortest hours, and don’t hold anybody’s lives in their
Continue readingI have a couple of high school friends on Facebook who grew up to become teachers. They are relentless about posting daily materials highlighting the American teacher’s martyrdom. If you relied on these posters alone, you’d think that being a teacher is the hardest job, with the lowest salary, in
Continue readingI wrote a prolonged grumble the other day about English teachers. In it, I mentioned an English teacher I happen to know and admire. He thinks smart thoughts and writes in beautiful English. Honestly! How lucky can his students get? In any event, he’s also humble so, rather than soaking
Continue readingFor the most part, teachers across America are hard-working, committed, good people. A teacher raised me. My Dad was willing to work for a pittance because he had a genuine calling to teach. Nowadays, teachers ostensibly get paid much more money than my Dad did, but at what cost? As
Continue readingMy Dad was a teacher, and he worked like a dog. Of course, back in the day, he got a salary that was only slightly above poverty level, so his hard work wasn’t really the teaching itself. Instead, it was all the private lessons he gave on the side. He
Continue readingA classic Seinfeld episode concerned George Costanza’s decision (at Kramer’s urging) to park in a handicapped zone. This being George, things went drastically wrong. What I remember from the episode, though, isn’t the cascading sequence of disasters; instead; it’s the opprobrium heaped upon George for parking in the blue. His
Continue readingAs I understand it, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, faced with a $3.6 billion biennial budget deficit (for the years 2011-2013), had the choice of raising taxes in his financially beleaguered state or firing up to 6,000 state employees. He chose a third route, proposing that Wisconsin’s public sector employees start
Continue readingI am crazy abut this politician: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ksLlAi3iIc[/youtube] We have some spectacular young guns in the conservative party. The problem is timing. I don’t know if any will be ready by 2012, and it may be too late by 2016.
Continue readingThis is a portmanteau post, filled with interesting things I read today, some of which come in neatly matched sets. Opening today’s San Francisco Moronicle, the first thing I saw was that an illegal teen’s arrest is causing a stir in San Francisco’s halls of power. You see, San Francisco
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