Category Archives: Business

Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

School Choice

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The left doesn’t like it, but the right doesn’t need them to.

Government schools were always a project of the left, going back to socialist John Dewey. It’s time to blow up the system.

And I hope we see a lot more of this sort of thing. Anger about schools could be a gateway drug to questioning leftist views on many other issues.

[Update a few minutes later]

The biggest educational innovation is school choice.

[Update a while later]

Dems’ covid hysteria is driving away liberal mothers.

For Wagner, the ‘schools issue’ proved to be a gateway into seeing the world through another set of eyes.

She realized early in the pandemic that it was conservative sites who were reporting on the impact of school closures and concerns she had over curriculum.

She went from a casual viewer of CNN and MSNBC to seeking out Fox News clips about the ‘schools issue’ on YouTube because they were the only ones covering it.

Soon, she did the unthinkable: She just turned on Fox News itself. And she realized, ‘It’s not what CNN claims it to be.’

…Ashley warned, ‘I’m about as lefty as they come. I campaigned for Elizabeth Warren in 2020, Bernie Sanders in 2016, and Ralph Nader in 2000. Most of my views on specific issues haven’t changed… Now I don’t know if I can vote for any of them unless they reckon with what they did, and continue to do, to kids during this pandemic.’

‘I would even accept an apology, a mea culpa, a reflection on what they failed to do, and an effort to make it right. But I’m not holding my breath.’

Good plan. Because it will never happen. These morons’ egos will never allow it. Parents will remember for a long time how their kids were sacrificed at the pleasure of the Democrats and teachers’ unions. And there will be a terrible reckoning for them in November, just as there was in Virginia.

Administrative, Business, Technology and Society, Weird

My New Keyboard

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So I bought a mechanical keyboard. It was reviewed as a good value for someone who wanted it for typing (though it’s also a gaming keyboard). I like the action on it, but it has a big problem. See the key to the left of the right Ctrl key? It seems to have the same function as a right click, but I have no use for it.

Unfortunately, where it’s placed means that I’m often accidentally hitting it with my palm just below my right pinkie, at which point it screws up whatever I’m typing, by inserting text or something else, which I have to then undo with ctrl-z. It would be nice if it could be reprogrammed but even if it was a Windows key (as it was on my previous keyboard, that would screw thing up in Linux by going to the workspace menu. I didn’t have the problem on my previous keyboard because the key profile was lower. I guess I’ll just try removing the key and see if the problem goes away.

[Update a while later]

In the process of trying to figure out how to delete the mapping on the problem key, I discovered this amusing document. “Before you read this, please understand that I never wanted to write this document, being grossly under-qualified, but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way.”