It is a clash of values, and ours may not win out.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Indoctrination
Teachers’ union teaches teachers how to make students woke.
Tulsi Gabbard
From my neighbor (really — he lives a few blocks away from me): Conservatives have taken to her (despite her leftism), because unlike most of the other Democrats, she doesn’t act like she hates our guts.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Don’t know how I missed titling the post, but it’s fixed.
Marketing Books
Some useful tips from Frank J. Fleming.
[Lying] is a pretty tried and true method you can adapt to any situation. For instance, I tried to get someone to buy Hellbender and he was like, “Wait. Is that a science fiction comedy? I only read true crime books.”
So I said, “That’s what it is. True crime. Maybe the truest crime ever. And extra crimey.”
And then when he bought it and flipped through it and was like, “This looks like it was written by a chimp pounding at a keyboard!” I was all, “No refunds!”
Lying is great. You can also use it to make whatever you’re selling sound better than it is, though I don’t need that for Hellbender, since it has already won five Nobel prizes in literature and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the greatest novel ever.
As an ever-struggling author, I’ll have to try some of these.
Training Rats
… to drive tiny cars.
In the interest of science, and at the risk of sounding racist, it seems like they should do it with Asian rats for comparison.
Universities
Oh, Canada
An analysis of the election mess, and corresponding bleak prospects.
Middle America
Will the Democrats blow it again?
All signs point to “yes,” and that’s a good thing.
Elijah Cummings
Politician dies, Trump acts with respect and decency, “journalist” goes nuts.
Bridging The Cultural Divide
A long, but interesting essay.